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Another CS pre-release TODO: RSS Author display

If I have a peeve with CS at the moment it has to be with user management and UI handling of user information which I posted on the other day. These are details, details, details, of course, but this is a community-focused application, for goodness sake.  We need to get away from thinking like the machine, using usernames instead of real names and IDs instead of a human identifiers.  So besides rooting out any appearance of "Anonymous" on my site, I'm going to fix the RSS feed.  I want the author to read "Dave Burke," not "dburke," or "CornyCarl" or whatever.

Here's the CS Codebetter.com feed for instance so you know what I'm talking about.  I want to see from "Brendan Tompkins" or "Sahil Malik," not "btompkins" and "sahilmalik."

 

 

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Posted on 3/25/2005 10:04:00 AM by Dave Burke
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3/25/2005 12:49:00 PM Permalink

Dude, I feel your pain.  User management has a long way to go and leaves a lot to be desired.  So many times if I need to go edit a user on cs.org for their roles or what not, it is an incredible pain.  If they recently logged on, it'll list them quick and easy, but if they don't remember their username or anything like that, major pain.  I've actually had to go into the DB and manually fire sprocs to find users (the one I spent the longest on turned out to not even exist, they forgot they never registered).

Ken Robertson |

3/25/2005 12:55:00 PM Permalink

Ken, its your pain which is the greatest here.  I'll do some one-time typing and I'll be good to go.  Sorry to hear that it adds overhead to the administrative processes. I hadn't considered that.

Hey, I heard (form a very good source) that all of the support you provide on CSForums is above and beyond your primary duties.  That's outstanding.  Your contributions on Forums is invaluable.  Just remember, Scoble announced a couple of days ago he's dropping the Link Blog because of the load.  No one can do it all.  Just wanted to recognize your great work in supporting the CS community.

Dave Burke |

3/26/2005 10:24:00 AM Permalink

Aye Aye Bro .. I agree !!

Sahil Malik |

3/28/2005 12:19:00 PM Permalink

Yep.  This seems left out.. Could be just the way we setup our users in the first place. We migrated from .TEXT, and the tool we used just pulled the username, which you're seeing above.  

This is the key, so it can't be changed.  Really what's needed is a display name field, which is shown wherever a person is referred to.

Brendan Tompkins |

3/28/2005 12:24:00 PM Permalink

Good point, Brendan.  Yeap, a display name field (or first_name last_name) would be peachy!

Dave Burke |


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