Adding more site options to the user name tag

[eosrose]

Title:
Adding more site options to the user name tag

Area:
Site-Specific Markup

Summary:
I would like to add more site options for the <user name> tag. I've found the capability to refer to users on livejournal, insanejournal, etc. very useful. Now I'd like to be able to easily type <user name=whoever site=blogspot.com> and pull up a proper link to my friend's blogspot account. The same goes for <user name=whoever site=wordpress.com> and others.

Description:
I've been looking at the list of external sites that have been made compatible with the <user name> tag in the FAQ (http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=87) and have found a definite bias toward journal-hosting sites closely related to LJ. This doesn't surprise me at all (it makes sense to have started there), but there are lots of other popular blog-hosting sites out there. I would like to start seeing that reflected here on DW.

Off the top of my head, I can think of two sites that I would love to see incorporated, since I've got friends using those services that I'd love to easily refer to with <user name> tags:

(1) Blogspot.com
(2) Wordpress.com

If anyone can think of other sites, perhaps suggesting them in the comments to this post would be appropriate?

P.S. I believe someone suggested a work-around to allow users to add external sites on their own, but that seems to be deferred for the time being. Asking for specific, popular sites might be a short-term solution until that other suggestion can be feasibly implemented.

Poll #6499 Adding more site options to the user name tag

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 60

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Should be implemented as-is.
33 (55.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
25 (41.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)