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(Hmmmm, I think something like this came up a few months ago ??)
I feel the link for YM profiles is in error (here{me} or here{Shifter}).
Currently it shows different things for different people, and NONE of them hugely useful, e.g.:
http://members.yahoo.com/interests?.oc=t&.kw=eagle_kiwi&.sb=1 (me)
http://members.yahoo.com/interests?.oc=t&.kw=shiftthis_net&.sb=1 (Shifter)Whereas the simple format:
http://profiles.yahoo.com/eagle_kiwi (me)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/shiftthis_net (Shifter)
DOES give a real direct target, every time (will by Y!360 for those with that set, or just plain vanilla Y!Profile for others)Actually, I don’t think there’s much difference. Also, for people with special Yahoo! addresses like me, the page displays really wierd.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/Spike.Li
I’d just as well leave it, besides, the link is to view their Yahoo! Profile, not their Y!360 page or lack thereof.
Y360 is a complete red herring, Spike – that just happens to be an ALTERNATIVE Yahoo profile some people have… but a Yahoo Profile nonetheless.
My point is that for users such as Shifter (perhaps the majority?) the current method leads to a “can’t find” page – but my suggestion would mean it WOULD find a profile for those people.
Re your “dot” id – I haven’t come across that profile quirk before, but I figure it’s an unexpected bug in Yahoo since they introduced those “dot” ids, and hopefully they’ll remedy it some time.
In summary, for the 3 users exampled (me, Shifter, you) the current BBB finds a useful Y!Profile for 1/3… my suggestion would improve that to 2/3. SURELY that’s useful !?
The reason my profile is displayed incorrectly (and why it “cannot find listing” for my name) is because I took up on a special Chinese Yahoo Name offer that allowed me to pick a Yahoo name with a .XX extension (list of roughly 20 2-letter extensions) and that would be your Yahoo ID. I am the only exception, everyone else I go to, it seems to find the profile just fine. It’s hard to edit something like that in vBulletin, as well, if I recall correctly (correct me if I’m wrong), so I don’t think it’s worth the hassle.
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