adding Ravelry to supported external sites for "magical" linking usernames

[anatsuno]

Title:
adding Ravelry to supported external sites for "magical" linking usernames

Area:
linking usernames (dreamwidth specific tag)

Summary:
What it says on the tin :D I would love it if we could add Ravelry.com to the sites supported so that I could write user name=anatsuno site=ravelry.com as a user thingie! Rav uses this structure for their user profiles: http://www.ravelry.com/people/anatsuno

Description:
I don't see what else to say... Except that I know Ravelry is mostly a memebers only site and the profile page aren't visible to non-members, yet I still think it is a worthy user tag to have... Because of the overlap in users in both sites' membership, if nothing else. :))

Poll #7731 adding Ravelry to supported external sites for "magical" linking usernames

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 83

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Should be implemented as-is.
61 (73.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.2%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (24.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[anatsuno]

I voted for my own suggestion. :D

[zaluzianskya]

I voted "implement with changes", because I think there needs to be some more streamlined way to get external sites added than suggesting them here. Maybe some kind of form where users could enter the site name and URL, and then if enough different people suggest the same site, someone would add it?

[denise]

There's a bug open to make it easier to add external sites, yeah. In the meantime, until that can be coded (and it's a huge massive thing to code and once coded will require lots of manual admin oversight, which is guaranteed to make me cranky and put it off) this is the best way to measure how much interest there is in a particular external site being added either to the profile or to the <user name=foo> tag, so the votes are designed to measure interest in having that particular site available.

[anatsuno]

Agreed! I was surprised that my suggestion of a new tag/site could only be done through a suggestion in the comm. I feel like your idea is a completely different suggestion altogether though - and worth submitting as a suggestion in itself, imo! :)

[anatsuno]

Good to know :)

[ninetydegrees]

I don't have a Ravelry account and will probably never link to one but I think it makes sense to match the user name feature with the accounts you can add to your profile and since Ravelry's already there...

[ariestess]

I have a Ravelry username, but probably won't ever link to it, and if I do link to something from Ravelry, I'd just do a standard link to the person's profile anyway.

[azurelunatic]

See also: http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/306056.html

[yvi]

I knew I had seen this before...

[anatsuno]

/o\ I'm so sorry. :(

[denise]

Don't apologize; it's my fault! (I am limited by site search being down; usually if it looks familiar I'll run it through comm search. In this case, I skimmed, and didn't find it.)

[anatsuno]

eek. *pets* okay, let's not be sorry then. :)

if it's okay to ask, is there an ETA for the return of site-search?

[denise]

As soon as our hosting provider sticks the extra 4G of RAM into the search machine! We haven't gotten an ETA yet.

[voldsom]

*smiles whimsically* I had thought, and still think, that despite both referencing Ravelry, they were two independent issues. I think they should be linked, though technically that's currently impractical. But I had thought that this was for adding Ravelry to the [user] tag as a site option, and that was for adding Ravelry to the profile page. Distinct, but remarkably coincident.

[anatsuno]

no, you're right, they ARE actually different! Uh, I guess I read too fast the first time around.

[ninetydegrees]

and http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/512190.html.