link-to-me module on profile

[azurelunatic]

Title
link-to-me module on profile

Short, concise description of the idea
On a user's profile, show copyable code to link to them both on and off of LJ.

Full description of the ideaThis was originally inspired by screaming frustration with OpenID users and YouTube, believe it or not. There I was minding my own business and fuming about how it was

Comments

[lady_angelina]

Sounds good to me! I know that I would use this, even though I'm very familiar with the lj markup tags, because it's much easier to copypasta code on my mobile phone than to hard type the tags (I have to go into a separate screen just to grab the angle brackets).

[danceinacircle]

This actually drives me nuts on DW. I think it doesn't fit the "look" of the page and is highly confusing. I'd rather make the ext number for OpenID accounts more prominent.

[charliemc]

+1

I LOVE this idea. A big YES from me.

[ursamajor]

I'd use it. I like it on Flickr, I like it on video hosting sites, and I like that in both cases the provided code maintains a characteristic "look" when interpreted/displayed that picky people like me can modify easily :)

[mlady_rebecca]

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. What code are you trying to make more easily accessible?

[azurelunatic]

exampleusername, with a side order of HTML to look like that on pretty much any other site (so, say, if I were commenting on InsaneJournal, I could say "I saw something like that in suggestions!" and have a link to LJ suggestions with the proper little community icon, without having to construct or dig up the code from the source of a webpage.

[mlady_rebecca]

Thanks for the explanation.

I don't know that I'd use it, but I see no objection to making code like that available.