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Symbolic "@At sign" (/@u/ in URL) breaks legitimate documentation links. #3211

Open mvandeberg opened 5 years ago

mvandeberg commented 5 years ago

From steemit/steem#3250

For example (please know it was my first personal encounter with this specific problem/error/bug, I did not know what to say and important error-proving time passed ~[should I have just said someAtSign {camelcase (slowly? {Or just spit the word, if it's important to tell?})}?])~, add your Steem profile URL to your Github profile and watch the About Text Field Parser just throw a fit. (Spoiler/Hint: Turns https://steemd.com/@scribe to https://steemd.com/@scribe and does not even politely warn in error).

Escalating deeper ~, my second experience (I was not ready, even after the first problem error bug, but I could read now, at least, I knew the "@" now, felt readable),~ into the alarming symbol_swearing issue, https://github.com/neo-project/docs/blame/127663900e1e9f1c5cafc7fce19c1a3cf7caedc1/en-us/basic/about.md#L53 (http://web.archive.org/web/20190217221720/https://github.com/neo-project/docs/blame/127663900e1e9f1c5cafc7fce19c1a3cf7caedc1/en-us/basic/about.md, http://web.archive.org/web/20190217200137/https://docs.neo.org/en-us/basic/about.html) is being read egregiously, ~just shocking if I might say so myself I do not even want to ask or even know how that happens in this day and age with modern computers and artificial intelligence (do we need another NASA Challenger before we all can agree to talk seriously about usernames?),~ as a "mailto:" HTML code and not as a normal link text.

Should we advise/suggest the Documentation Generators change protocol (and what about Github, who agrees to host us from their heart, and does not have time for our "syntactic sugar" @Sign syntax issues), or give an alternative at-sign (+? [/u would make sense with @u, and maybe +u.]) in case of the issue?

Further, I think I remember Twitter adding username redirects from @username to /username before (public support issue ticket not found) nearly becoming a standard (https://www.google.com/search?q="w3.org+username+standards" only has https://serverfault.com/questions/348912/best-practices-in-username-standards-avoiding-problems being why I said 'nearly', to be kind about that being undetermined) specification for from the same reasons.

~Legal Disclaimer: I used/worked with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link before and may have been influenced by that "symlink" terminology in writing/coding the title for our issue.~

payingattention commented 5 years ago

I know that might be an iceberg.

I do not know if it has to be a ``Titanic`` iceberg.