[RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts

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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts

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EXreaction wrote:The idea earlier was to use bbcodes for this, e.g. [mention]some user[/mention]. To make it "nice" like how everyone else does it, since we do not use a wysiwyg editor to hide those bbcodes, we would simple make a javascript listener for when someone types @[^\s] in the text area and then pop out a username search based on what they have typed since the @ sign. Hitting esc would close the window, and selecting a user or hitting enter would replace the @ and whatever they typed with the selected user wrapped in a [mention] tag.

Agree +1 to this approach
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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts

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There's a BBCode for this. To use @username in posts

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@mrgtb: which one please ?

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mrgtb wrote:There's a BBCode for this. To use @username in posts
I think maybe you are missing the point as the concept is to use BBcode to accomplish this but it should send a notification as well which would also require settings for the notification center to disable receiving @meniton notifications.
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That's different then if using notifications also.

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It's always been about having notifications just like it happens when one is @mentioned anywhere else.
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So if BBCode is the verdict, what happens when I register the username [/mention] and people try to mention me like [mention][/mention][/mention]?
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Unfortunately it's just not going to work for you then.

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jsebean wrote:So if BBCode is the verdict, what happens when I register the username [/mention] and people try to mention me like [mention][/mention][/mention]?
Add that to your username ban list. :D

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Maybe using @ isn't a great idea since there's a big change for people mentioning actual twitter handles, maybe it should be something like reddit mentions, they mention users like this /u/username since user profiles have URLs like reddit.com/r/username, so using /u/ triggers the mention function. I'm guessing phpBB won't be using short urls but something like this looks elegant enough for me.
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