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which urls do you guys prefer for user profiles?

1 2023-03-04 19:02

example.com/bigdicknigga
example.com/@bigdicknigga
example.com/user/bigdicknigga
example.com/users/bigdicknigga
example.com/~bigdicknigga
bigdicknigga.example.com
example.com/-/bigdicknigga/profile
example.com/profile/bigdicknigga

2 2023-03-04 19:23

>>/sandbox/

3 2023-03-06 14:59

bigdicknigga.thughunting.net

4 2023-06-06 23:43

~til

5 2023-06-07 14:01 *

3 best (in this order)
example.com/users/bigdicknigga
example.com/~bigdicknigga
bigdicknigga.example.com

6 2023-06-19 02:36

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP
https://github.com/ewilderj/doap

7 2023-06-19 02:43

Also some contenders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantically-Interlinked_Online_Communities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardDAV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeCard_(QR_code)

8 2023-06-19 10:22

X@y.tld

9 2023-07-14 15:09

These are great. ~ is classy, but @ feels modern.
- example.com/~bigdicknigga
- example.com/@bigdicknigga

These are good and what I initially preferred.
- example.com/user/bigdicknigga
- example.com/profile/bigdicknigga

Not bad, but I much prefer /user/
- example.com/users/bigdicknigga

The /profile makes it clunky
- example.com/-/bigdicknigga/profile

These are clean, but give me a claustrophobic anxiety. You need ban possible usernames like help, docs, about, and so on.
- example.com/bigdicknigga
- bigdicknigga.example.com

10 2023-07-15 15:58

Just keep one reserved like /site and run your main site through there

11 2023-07-17 06:04

bigdicknigga.example.com

This one is not good for the privacy of those who are visiting the user profile, because "bigdicknigga" will appear in the DNS request.

12 2023-07-17 12:50

>>11

DNS
privacy

Are you trolling me bro? There are people who actually expect privacy while accessing the DNS?

13 2023-07-17 19:44

~bigdicknigga is the original Unix shell convention. @bigdicknigga is the contemporary social media convention. They're otherwise equivalent. I'd use ~ for a programmer's website and @ for a normie website. There's also the federated bigdicknigga@example.com federated service convention which is the most correct of all since @ literally means at but it's not like anyone does that anymore.

14 2023-07-17 19:47

>>12

That's his point. You can't expect privacy from DNS. Using per-user subdomains will leak information about which users are being visited.

15 2023-07-18 12:22

>>14
That's as tautological as "your IP address is being leaked right now" or "your unsecured traffic is being monitored by the government". I can't believe that people actually think about tautology.

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