dw_suggestions | Etsy: user name link and profile external service

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%)

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I love this idea, but will all offsite links come with the same little user head as on DW or with some other identification? It would be good to know if one is going off of DW. I saw something go by about Ravelry, but it doesn't use the same URL structure. Any ability to shorthand sites like Etsy and Ravelry is a great idea--fandom and crafties seem to go hand in hand.