[p2pu-dev] Moving profiles to people/username

[John Britton]

I'm quite strongly opinionated that we should keep the form
http://p2pu.org/username, and not introduce another level '/people'

P2PU is about the people, and if we want to be the goto place for an
educational portfolio we should give users the top level.

Github, Twitter, Facebook, ... the list goes on. It's pretty well
established that username belongs at the top level for user focused sites.
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>wrote:

> from a usercentric (not tech) perspective i think that putting it under
> people makes sense - i've looked for user profiles and have naturally typed
> out p2pu.org/people/username and been surprised it's not already like that
>
> i would keep groups / courses as under groups/groupname rather than making
> it toplevel. For someone reading the URL it is clear that a group is being
> described. And who knows, we've got people and groups and schools, you never
> know what type of thing P2PU will be about in the future:
>
> p2pu.org/textbooks/bloggingandwritingfortheweb
> p2pu.org/thesis/OpenResearchIsMuchBetter
> p2pu.org/region/oberoesterreich
>
> etc :-)
>
> P*
>
>
> On 8 August 2011 17:56, Jessica Ledbetter <jessica at jessicaledbetter.com>wrote:
>
>> Rock on, Greg! Awesome :)
>>
>> Glad we're on the same page -- pun intended.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Greg Wilson <gvwilson at third-bit.com>wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> The redirect from p2pu.org/username to p2pu.org/people/username is in
>>> the patch --- along with unit tests :-)
>>> G
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11-08-08 11:06 AM, Jessica Ledbetter wrote:
>>>
>>> Great read! Thank you :)
>>>
>>> I often discuss things like dashes or underscores in urls at work. I kept
>>> flipping back and forth on which is more readable. Nice to have another
>>> opinion.
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Brian Brennan <
>>> brianloveswords at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/ is a great article about URL
>>>> design.
>>>>
>>>>  I think about this way: the site is about either groups or people. If
>>>> it's about groups, those should be top-level. If it's about people, they
>>>> should be top level. Otherwise we're wasting prime real-estate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Very good question.
>>>
>>> I remember when doing some tweaks that I wondered why it was
>>> p2pu.org/username. I guessed that it was because we were focused on the
>>> people.
>>>
>>> If the url does change, I highly suggest a redirect. :)
>>>
>>>
>>>>  On Monday, August 8, 2011 at 10:19 AM, zuzel.vp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to get feedback about moving user profiles to
>>>> /people/username (note that /people/ is the url used to list popular
>>>> and new users). Currently we have an url schema similar to github in
>>>> which user profiles are directly bellow / (it is the same as
>>>> batucada). The new schema is already implemented from last Saturday's
>>>> workshop (redirects were setup so the old urls don't break and there
>>>> are new tests for this feature). The pull request is
>>>> https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/pull/73. I think a lot of time ago we
>>>> talked about this but I was not able to find the discussion thread or
>>>> the lighthouse ticket if there is one.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Zuzel
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