krow's Journal: So what is all of this ~user stuff?

So, to make navigation a bit easier I added the username and my methods. For those of a technical bent, when you do a /~username/ or a /my/ you are not actually peaking into directories, instead I wrote a handler to direct you to the correct URL. Its neat and its something only perl and C can do inside of Apache.
So what are the different things you can do?

• ~username/ takes you to the user's info page
• ~username/journal/ takes you to someone's journal.
• ~username/discussions/ takes you to a list of discussions the users have created (do you know how many people don't get that they can create their own trolltalk via this??? Heck, I even added a form for creating discussions

In addition I added a feature called /my/ (you can also do just a /~/). This allows you to get at a lot of your own information. Here are a few you can do:

• /my/ this will get to your user information
• /my/discussions/ takes you to where you discussions are
• /my/journal/ takes you to where you can manage your own discussions
• /my/inbox/ takes you to any messages you have waiting. You can also use the word "messages" for inbox.

Over time we will probably add more (especially as we bring more features online). There are now quite a few hooks in the code that we have yet to exploit.
For my next trick perhaps I will document all of the places in the code you can have it spit XML instead of HTML out at you :)