690357 - Request for a "Website" field

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

It'd be great to add a "Website" field to people's phonebook profiles. Reasons include:

1. Blog Discovery
2. Syncing with planet.mozilla.org or any other team planets
3. extra URLs for Firefox testing ;). We need to make sure our community's websites work well in Firefox, right?

Things to consider (off the top of my head):
* Any LDAP concerns?
* limiting text within the field to start with a "http://"
* length of the URL

Comment 1

[Tantek Çelik]

Specifically we should add a:

"web address:"

field to the *sign-up* form, as from that we can then AJAX in the person's name, email, potentially IRC nickname etc. all from the hCard on URL entered.

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Couldn't get this in for 1.1, moving to 1.2

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Also, we should a multi-line text box that allows for many sites. There's plenty of folks using their blog, twitter and github accounts within bios to suggest that we should have a multi-boxes instead of a single-line one.

Comment 4

[tofumatt [:tofumatt]]

I would rather users enter a single website... their blog, twitter, whatever... we should allow them things like "GitHub" or whatever as special (or generic, user-created fields), but lots of websites like Twitter give you a single URL field, and most people are used to that.

GitHub, Twitter, etc. make sense as separate fields, not a free form website one.

Comment 5

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

That'd be great, but its hard to determine what users in other countries use as well. I think its more advantageous to keep it flexible to multiple websites on the first go around and then adding in special hooks once we determine what we want to do with them. It feels like a half-step if we only offer one website when so many mozillians are using multiple links.

Comment 6

[tofumatt [:tofumatt]]

I know Twitter parses out URLs in their bios (which I want to do with ours) as well as offering a primary website field.

It's not technically harder to make this a big text field you can dumb a bunch of websites into. Honestly though, I'd rather a single website field and a bio that parsed URLs. If you have more than one website you might want to describe it in your bio, but I don't want websites to have URLs+names because it's too weird UX-wise.

How about I add URL parsing to bios and use one "main" website field?

Comment 7

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/222cb66b8711cc23a325ef4d88fe2e27f3a43d07
Add website field (fix bug 690357)

Comment 8

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

Attachment: screenshot

QA verified. New website field is in place and operational. String validation based on simple heuristics is working and displays an appropriate error message.