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the problem (with just their web version i guess) is not showing the full username with instance where that user is at, nor recognizing when a username with an

by pxoe 2y ago

the problem (with just their web version i guess) is not showing the full username with instance where that user is at, nor recognizing when a username with an instance address appended is typed in. so when someone shares just their username (which is all they see on their profile, kinda deceptively cause you do need the instance address to get to someone), you're left guessing which instance they could be in. (the web version is also gated to hell behind sign up/login walls. well, whatever. i'm not going to find out if it's magically better if you cave, if it's this rickety without logging in) it's insane to me that for a federated network they couldn't get @handle display and profile sharing right.

viraptor 2y ago
> so when someone shares just their username Is that something that actually happens often? You're saying that you're not a user currently, but I can tell you that I've never seen that in practice. Everyone either appends the domain or shares the profile link like https://pixelfed.social/arkadiusz https://pixelfed.social/arkadiusz I mean, it's exactly as with email. We don't get the "you told me it's foobar, but I don't know which domain" issue there, even though most mail clients don't go out of their way to display your full email address.
- pxoe 2y ago
  i'm literally seeing people have those problems, which is why i'm writing about them lol. seeing people share their username and struggle to figure out which server they're at, either while trying to find someone, or even figuring that about themselves. all because pixelfed tries to be cute and doesn't show the full exact @ one would need to get to someone, but trims it just to the local username. it doesn't inform their users that just username isn't enough, and that they need a full link (with web apps and the whole situation being 'get to anyone from anywhere' it is not intuitive that they need a whole link and not just the @ part in it), and doesn't show a full handle either (which is kinda spotty with where you can put it anyway, because you can't just enter a full handle in url of any instance and get there) i guess this is just a fediverse convention for showing usernames, but it just ends up creating 'i can't find someone' problems. mastodon, for one, shows server name next to someone's username (and a tooltip with their full handle), but pixelfed doesn't. which is a bizarre choice for a federated service, cause it's counterproductive to federated connections.

by pxoe 2y ago

viraptor 2y ago

> so when someone shares just their username Is that something that actually happens often? You're saying that you're not a user currently, but I can tell you that I've never seen that in practice. Everyone either appends the domain or shares the profile link like https://pixelfed.social/arkadiusz https://pixelfed.social/arkadiusz I mean, it's exactly as with email. We don't get the "you told me it's foobar, but I don't know which domain" issue there, even though most mail clients don't go out of their way to display your full email address.

pxoe 2y ago
i'm literally seeing people have those problems, which is why i'm writing about them lol. seeing people share their username and struggle to figure out which server they're at, either while trying to find someone, or even figuring that about themselves. all because pixelfed tries to be cute and doesn't show the full exact @ one would need to get to someone, but trims it just to the local username. it doesn't inform their users that just username isn't enough, and that they need a full link (with web apps and the whole situation being 'get to anyone from anywhere' it is not intuitive that they need a whole link and not just the @ part in it), and doesn't show a full handle either (which is kinda spotty with where you can put it anyway, because you can't just enter a full handle in url of any instance and get there) i guess this is just a fediverse convention for showing usernames, but it just ends up creating 'i can't find someone' problems. mastodon, for one, shows server name next to someone's username (and a tooltip with their full handle), but pixelfed doesn't. which is a bizarre choice for a federated service, cause it's counterproductive to federated connections.