Administrative easy user name link tool

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Administrative easy user name link tool

Area:
administrative

Summary:
Remote site user linking is actually kind of popular; it shouldn't require developer intervention to add a new site.

Description:
Much to my surprise, I didn't find a bug for a tool that would make it easy to add new sites to the Officially Supported Places that one can link to a user from. (Bug 23 http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23 does not seem to include this, much to my surprise.)

One can link to users from any arbitrary site that has its user space at www.[service.tld]/users/[name] and have the link arrive in the right place, by entering <user name="name" site="service.tld">, but sometimes there are popular services that don't follow this format.

Tool would automatically retrieve the favicon of the site, autofilling this in for the userhead, with the option to override it if there is another image that is more appropriate to use.

Should include a place to specify the customization for the alt text for the userhead.

I hear tell that there's someday going to be the ability to specify whether an LJ user that one is linking to is a user or a community; once that exists, the tool should have the ability to set that up with a minimum of general agony.

Needs a spot to put the format of the profile link, and a spot to put the format of the main user space link.

Should have a preview feature, so a site administrator can do this and see how it looks and go back and change it without making things broken for everybody for 5 minutes by accident. (Or for 12 hours, because I imagine that the experience of doing one last thing before bed, thinking it should be good, and immediately passing out and staying dead to the world until done sleeping, is not unique to me.)

Should cross-link with the tool promised in bug 23 once it exists, or be part of the same meta-tool, because it's annoying to enter information twice.

Poll #4742 Administrative easy user name link tool

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (52.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (45.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)