Comments | suggestions: Site modifier in lj user tag

februaryfour in suggestions

Site modifier in lj user tag

Apr 14, 2010 22:28

Title
Site modifier in lj user tag

Short, concise description of the idea
Include site modifiers in lj user tags.

Full description of the idea
When we type in username, it would be nice if we could call a username for a site that is non-LJ. For example, on Dreamwidth, while will produce a DW-icon-username, one can put down and get a LJ user instead of a ( Read more... )

lj-specific markup, external services: other sites, § patch available, § no status

Comments 30

scolaro May 30 2010, 06:00:34 UTC

I like this idea.

I don't want to be one of those "we should copy Dreamwidth" people...

Since I work with both sites (many of my friends moved to DW) I would be happy if LJ indeed copied useful stuff from DW (and vice versa).

februaryfour May 31 2010, 13:32:58 UTC

Same here. So many of my friends have moved that it's getting a little annoying trying to keep track of TWO sites. DW has syndicated f-list reading coming up, and if that actually works as advertised (and LJ doesn't implement something similar), I think that would be it for me.

scolaro May 31 2010, 18:52:53 UTC

I'm not exactly sure what that is, but if it's a good idea why not suggest it here?

februaryfour May 31 2010, 23:28:36 UTC

Biggest reason is that I'd been trying the go-it-myself route (and failing). ^_^ Second reason is that I didn't want to spam suggestions when I wrote this one, and I forgot about doing it. I should write it up.

Thread 12

lady_angelina May 30 2010, 07:05:06 UTC

If it's easily doable, sure.

mlady_rebecca May 30 2010, 08:03:35 UTC

As long as you're adding a new tag "lj name" and not replacing the current tag "lj user".

I doubt I'd use the new feature, but I'd definitely be upset if "lj user" stopped working.

pauamma May 30 2010, 15:38:27 UTC

It can be done without breaking the current usage. exampleusername would keep referring to exampleusername as it does, and exampleusername would substitute the right URLs for example.com. (This, IIRC, is how it works on Dreamwidth.)

azurelunatic June 1 2010, 09:03:11 UTC

I assumed that specifying "lj name" in this instance was the result of a collision between our "lj user" and Dreamwidth's "user name", and that if implemented, it would probably be for "lj user".

justhuman May 30 2010, 10:10:10 UTC

Yes!

cos May 30 2010, 15:15:00 UTC

I do want to be one of those "we should copy Dreamwidth" people.