| Trizek-WMF | |
| Nov 10 2023, 10:33 AM |
How to reproduce:
Expectation: when the other account visits the URL, they see your impact
Reality: when the other account visits the URL, the see their own impact
Cause: the URL shortener doesn't take the username into account if it is not in the URL. If you do the process with Special:Impact/Trizek, the shorten URL be my impact, not the impact of the user who uses the URL.
What about requiring a user name to be present in the URL (and adding the viewer’s user name wherever the interface links to this page)? Special:Contributions doesn’t work without user names in URLs, but the personal toolbar links to Special:Contributions/<username>; Special:ListFiles lists all uploaded files by all users, but the link in the personal toolbar links to Special:ListFiles/<username>; and so on. Assuming the current user unless overridden in URL is confusing exactly because links cannot be shared (be they be shared using the URL shortener or by simply copy-pasting the URL from the browser URL bar).
Somewhat related task: T341911: New Impact Module Design: allow users to share their Impact module