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Proposal: Human-readable profile URLs

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Would it be possible to have human-readable profile URLs instead of numbers?

e.g. https://meta.codidact.com/users/da5nsy or https://meta.codidact.com/users/@da5nsy rather than https://meta.codidact.com/users/64176

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posted 10 months ago
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User names don't have to be unique (and platforms that require uniqueness tend to frustrate people who end up being Mike792 or whatever), so we need the numbers. Given that we need to include the number, we went for the shortest URL that uniquely identifies the user. Would it help if we added the name to the end, such as users/64176/da5nsy?

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> User names don't have to be unique Huh, wow, that's unusual. And kind of interesting. Isn't everyo... (2 comments)
> User names don't have to be unique Huh, wow, that's unusual. And kind of interesting. Isn't everyo...
da5nsy‭ wrote 10 months ago · edited 10 months ago
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User names don't have to be unique

Huh, wow, that's unusual. And kind of interesting. Isn't everyone in this day and age used to having to come up with something unique for a username?

Would it help if we added the name to the end, such as users/64176/da5nsy?

Thanks for offering the suggestion, but IMO - no. For me, one of the appeals of having a human-readable URL is that I can quickly navigate to it directly without having to remember any additional info (so long as I remember the URL structure)

Monica Cellio‭ wrote 10 months ago
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I think part of the confusion is from terminology. Your user name is actually a display name, and those don't have to be unique. Your user ID must be unique, and that's the number. By analogy, your email address must be unique, but the name that shows up alongside it in your "from" line needn't be -- it's not used for routing or system-level identification, only human convenience.