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username in URL

Postby Douggie » Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:09 am

This is probably a real long shot and I have no idea how complicated or easy it is to implement, but would it be possible to (eventually) have the username in the URL, like http://www.animemusicvideos.org/douggie for the main profile link, instead of the complicated link http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... _id=626724? Yeah, I know that it's only cosmetic, but it looks nicer, is easier to remember and every web 2.0 site is doing it! :D
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Re: username in URL

Postby dokidoki » Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:41 am

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Re: username in URL

Postby Douggie » Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:50 am

Ow crap, sorry, I never noticed that! I seached for it, but I guess "profile linking" would've been the correct terms. It's a shame the information is kinda hard to find (as the URLs being used everywhere is still user_id=..), but sweet to see that it's implemented! Thanks!
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Re: username in URL

Postby dokidoki » Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:39 pm

Programmers are rarely good at documentation. :)
Douggie wrote:(as the URLs being used everywhere is still user_id=..)
Unfortunately, as mentioned in the post, that is still safest to use when linking between things on the site, due to the crazy usernames some people use.
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