What are the best practices in URL design for membership websites, where membership profiles will be hosted at the top level, e.g. blah.com/username? -


what best practices in url design membership websites, membership profiles hosted @ top level, e.g. blah.com/username?

some of issues include 1) url namespace use non-profile url's, 2) reserving usernames site's use url's, 3) possible use of url's future 'corporate' rather individual profile pages

for site, castroller, user profiles live @ http://castroller/username. don't block usernames , don't have reserved list.

our url rewriting system set if have collision between path built site vs username, built in path wins. in 2 years of operation, have ran collision handful of times. these fixed changing user's username , sending them quick e-mail.

so basically:

  • make sure built in paths win
  • don't worry reserving/blocking names

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