User Tagging (Facebook style)

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diego898
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User Tagging (Facebook style)

Post by diego898 »

Hello!

I've recently installed the great AOS Tag User BBCode Mod and it has greatly improved the forum experience for my users. Across a large forum and many discussions its a great way to call people's attention to certain posts/topics. Its a very enjoyable experience and I think it would make a great feature, if carefully implemented to handle permissions issues, tagging groups, etc. to core. I can't think of one negative to having this feature on all boards. Granted, all interested boards could simply install the mod, but that argument could be made for a great many features in core. If it was automatically included/tightly integrated new communities with not very experiences moderators can also enjoy it. What do you guys/gals think?

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imkingdavid
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Re: User Tagging (Facebook style)

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There is already an RFC for the ability to @mention a user in a post. With the new notifications system, this is now a possibility for eventual inclusion, whether in the core or as an extension. If you would like, you may provide input in that topic.
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diego898
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Re: User Tagging (Facebook style)

Post by diego898 »

thank you for pointing that out! I will continue on there

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