Etsy: user name link and profile external service

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Etsy: user name link and profile external service

Area:
cross-site excellence

Summary:
Given that Dreamwidth has a lot of crafters, there might be interest in a specific Etsy shop remote user name before someone gets around to the easily-add-services feature.

Description:
As we know, remote site user name linking works for any site where users can be found at www.[service.tld]/users/[name], even if it isn't set up so there's a site-specific user-head to link there. [Edit: the proper location is 'users', not 'user'. My bad.]

Etsy's user URLs take the form of www.etsy.com/shop/[name], and their profile URLs www.etsy.com/people/[name].

Are there enough Etsy crafters, and people who know Etsy crafters, that it would be useful to be able to easily link to Etsy crafters before someone gets to bug 23 (http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23) ?

Poll #4741 Etsy: user name link and profile external service

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (48.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.1%)

(I have no opinion)
22 (46.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.1%)

Comments

[dchan]

...I actually DIDN'T know that. I was under the impression that cross-site user linking only worked with LJ and LJ-clones. Perhaps the FAQ needs to be updated?

[azurelunatic]

It's designed to work with LJ and LJ clones, but by constructing the URL format that works for all clones and using the appropriate userhead if available. Unknown places get a charming little "offsite link" head: exampleusername.

[arethinn]

I had no idea this was possible! This is just the regular user name="" site="" tag?

[azurelunatic]

Yep! Keen, isn't it?