Replace external artist links with links to the relevant creator search on Openverse #630
Labels
🕹 aspect: interface
Concerns end-users' experience with the software
design: needed
Needs a designer's touch before implementation can begin
✨ goal: improvement
Improvement to an existing user-facing feature
good first issue
New-contributor friendly
help wanted
Open to participation from the community
🟩 priority: low
Low priority and doesn't need to be rushed
🧱 stack: frontend
Related to the Nuxt frontend
🔧 tech: vue
Involves Vue.js
Problem
Rather than link to the external resource for the creator, which may or may not give the user quick access to the artist/creator's content, let's replace the links and mentions of creator names everywhere with links to the relevant Openverse search.
Description
According to @zackkrida we can use the following format to build the search link:
We need to include the source because there could be two separate creators by the same name on different sources and they should be distinguished (we don't want to misattribute).
We could also explore making the source clearer on the artist name to help disambiguate multiple sources coming back with the same creator name representing separate people.
We could also continue to include the external link to the creator's page on the source when it exists as a separate link (?).
This probably needs some extra thought from @panchovm on the UX side to make sure we're delivering the correct information and not making things more confusing.
Implementation
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