URL de preferencias de usuario universal

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I find myself needing to answer questions for users sometimes and to provide instructions. Having an absolute path with the username (eg https://domain.tld/u/YOUR_USERNAME/preferences/account) for user preferences has become burdensome since I have to provide unique instructions each time and general FAQs are not really possible without sending screenshots on how to click to places.

It would be so much easier if we simply allowed users to go to: https://domain.tld/preferences/account or https://domain.tld/account/preferences

Currently when you need to explain to a user how to get to their preferences, you tell them:

  1. Go to user icon in the upper right beside the 3 horizontal lines (most users don’t know what a hamburger icon or such is).
  2. Click on your username that’s in the upper left of that upper right menu/popdown.
  3. Click on the 2nd item up from the bottom that says “Preferences” and has a gear to the left.

I think it’s pretty clear that it would be both easier for admins and users if we had a simplified URL path so that we could give general URLs that would work for all users to get to their preferences.

I wouldn’t even mind if there’s a /u in there as well. I just simply believe we need to make a simpler URL path available as a usability improvement for everyone.

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This already exists, use /my/ like so

https://example.com/my/preferences/account

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Holy cow, this is great to know. I sure wish it would have been the default or somehow more evident! Thanks!

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Hola @codinghorror, después de usar el alias de ruta /my/ con usuarios durante un tiempo, he llegado a estar convencido de que realmente deberíamos tener la capacidad de usar /my/ para esencialmente todo por defecto en el sistema si así se desea, en lugar de /u/Usuario/ (incluso /my/profile tiene más sentido que /u/Usuario). Los usuarios están copiando y pegando sus nombres de usuario e intentando ayudar a otras personas, pero nadie se da cuenta de que /my/ es funcional hasta que se les informa explícitamente al respecto.

¿Hay alguna manera de configurarlo en este momento?

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Ya funciona así, así que no tengo claro qué estás pidiendo.

https://meta.discourse.org/my/activity
https://meta.discourse.org/my/notifications
https://meta.discourse.org/my/messages
https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/categories

Básicamente, para cualquier enlace en la página de usuario, reemplaza

u/{username}

con

my

en la URL.

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