Re: [Social-mediagoblin] Goals for our first Alpha release in fall

[Rock Neurotiko]

On 08/05/2011 21:01, will kahn-greene wrote:
> I have a friend who's been bumping around in Europe and he said that
> some keyboards (no clue which ones) don't have an easily accessible ~
> key, so doing ~ stuff is always a pain in the ass.  I never followed up
> on that, but it's intriguing.  Is the ~ key easily accessible on most
> screen keyboards for mobile devices?
>
> I think for those reasons (even if they don't pan out exactly), I'm +1
> on /u/<username>/ .
>
>
> On 05/08/2011 02:16 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> > > Here's some example of URLs as I expect them to exist and what I think you'd 
> > > see on them.
> > >   - http://mediagobl.in/ -- homepage of this GNU MediaGoblin install,
> > >     shows a few featured images, info on GNU MediaGoblin, how to join, etc
> > >   - http://mediagobl.in/~cwebber/ -- shows my "profile", including some
> > >     info about me, a few of my latest images, some of my favorites
> > >   - http://mediagobl.in/~cwebber/m/a-walk-in-the-park/ -- see my "Walk in the 
> > > Park" media entry
> > >   - http://mediagobl.in/~cwebber/gallery/ has a longer list of all my stuff
> > >   - http://mediagobl.in/~cwebber/gallery/?page=2 to get to page 2 of my 
> > > gallery, etc
> > >   - http://mediagobl.in/~cwebber/feed/ RSS / Atom feed to subscribe to
> > This has come up a few times off-list so I wanted to bring it up
> > on-list.
> >
> > Would people prefer:
> >
> > http://mediagobl.in/~cwebber/
> > or
> > http://mediagobl.in/u/cwebber/
> >
> > We *won't* be doing:
> > http://mediagobl.in/cwebber/
> >
> > because I don't want conflicts with usernames and base urls if we add
> > features later.  If feedmaster registers on some site and later on
> > /feedmaster/ becomes part of the design I simply *don't* want a naming
> > conflict.
> >
> > Anyway I'm partial to the tilde but think I'm in the minority.  Show of
> > hands?  Here's your opportunity to bikeshed ;)
That's true, in my country, Spain, that char(~) is practically dead to 
users, no one knows where is it.
+1 on /u/username/
that's easy to remember and no so large to write in others social-net.
moreover, normal writes helps to the SEO, and that's important.