[p2pu-dev] Moving profiles to people/username

[zuzel.vp]

I am +1 to people/username because it reduces the number of clashes
between profile urls and other hight level urls like groups/ people/
schools/ pages/ .... It also makes it easier to work with
http://www.google.com/cse/ and other google services that use url
patterns to select a set of pages in a domain. Moving profiles to
people/username will also reduce the risk in the future of not being
able to add a new url pattern (tags/, mentors/, ...) to our site
because a user selected that world as their username.

On the other side I understand the benefit for users to have a short
url for their profiles/portfolio. I am wondering if providing another
domain for this purpose will help. Something like
portfolios.p2pu.org/username that serves the user's profile/porfolio.

-- 
Thanks,
    Zuzel

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com> wrote:
> 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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