Request for sitename tag for DeviantArt

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Title:
Request for sitename tag for DeviantArt

Area:
tags

Summary:
We need a tag for users at DeviantArt.

Description:
I know a lot of people who post to DeviantArt and sometimes when I mention them, I would rather do so using their dA link rather than their DW link. Could we get a tag for dA such as the one we have for AO3?

Poll #6472 Request for sitename tag for DeviantArt

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 73

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Should be implemented as-is.
55 (75.3%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (2.7%)

(I have no opinion)
16 (21.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[noracharles]

I voted yes :-)

However, I'd like to point out that Dreamwidth allows you to link to all user profiles on other sites that follow this pattern: [root url]/users/exampleusername/profile
so it's not something put especially in place for anyone's "pet" sites.

The way you do it is you add the "site" tag to the ordinary user name tag, for example:
<user name=exampleusername site=siteijustmadeup.com>, which will give you exampleusername. If Dreamwidth doesn't know the userhead, you get a Dreamwidth userhead with a little link icon on it to show that it goes off site.

So the reason we can use user name tags to link to LiveJournal and the AO3 and not to DeviantArt is that their user profile links are structured differently.

[pauamma]

What should the different parts (the userhead and the username) link to? Preferably,for consistency with Dreamwidth-like and LiveJournal-like sites, the userhead would link to the user's profile or "about me" page and the username would link to their blog, but not knowing anything about DA, I'm not sure there's something that makes sense as an equivalent.

[feathertail]

It seems like we ought to be able to do this without having to add each thing manually. What if we just had a universal protocol of some kind, like having it like to NAME.site and use the favicon or something? Then added in edge cases like LJ userheads and Twitter URLs.

Maybe that should be a separate suggestion ... I suspect I'm not thinking it through very well though.