I’ve discovered a bug on the movable type forum facility behind http://forums.movabletype.org/ that needs to be fixed ASAP
The problem is with the way movable type generated the member profile URL under the column ‘Last Reply’, the one that is behind the forum commenter photo
The member profile URL behind ‘By Commenter Name’ is good, as it is based on the movable type user profile ‘username’
However, the member profile URL behind the user photo thumb (only the one from under the column ‘Last Reply’) is not good for all commenters, because it is based on the commenter name.
So, unless your movable type forum username is the same with the ‘dirify’ version of your profile name, the member profile URL behind that photo thumb is broken!
You can see this happening for many movable type forum users
For instance:
http://www.movabletype.org/members/jimwalczak
vs.
http://www.movabletype.org/members/jim-walczak
The issue could be easily fixed by whoever is in charge of managing this forum templates @ Six Apart.
The admin needs to use the same logic for this member URL as the one behind 'By ($Commenter Name$)...'
http://forums.movabletype.org/2008/09/changes-to-forum-home.html#comment-6893
That's right Richard. Then, how come nobody fixed it here?
Escalated
A wiki page has been set up to capture and prioritise all the requirements, it can be found here [http://wiki.movabletype.org/Improving\_MT\_Community\_Forums](http://wiki.movabletype.org/Improving_MT_Community_Forums). Please contribute.
Good to know that Rob! Thanks a lot.
I actually think this forum facility is a good start and I've used to code a sort of forum facility some time ago, before the actual feature was available.
On a side note, we must admit that we are far from a real forum, with those juicy features that people like to use with say phpBB or vBulletin
My 2 cents