[RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
- Master_Cylinder
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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
I hope it's optional because *I* don't want to turn phpBB int twitter/FB on my forums...
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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
Regex can require a whitespace character (space, line, new tab) so isolating @ where it is preceded by whitespace is not an issue. As for the second issue:AmigoJack wrote:Re: Hashtag MOD is a tryout to implement #keyword auto-links. The biggest problem is to isolate plaintext from instructions (speak: HTML/CSS/JS...).
A problem with @ could be the very same: ftp://user:[email protected] is a legal link and some CSS in the post can also have@page
. And while you can search for' @'
nicely it won't catch occurances where the @ starts on a new line or is preceeded by BBCode or else. Not to mention cases where you don't want to have it interpreted. Also I foresee programming boards where people tend to not use BBCodes and then paste C, Pascal or Java, which can easily have dozens of matches:pData:= @sData;
1) Don't match any @<foo> where <foo> is not an existing username
2) Don't parse @<foo> during submit. (i.e. while you're typing if you start typing @<foo> and you select a username, then it will be parsed as a mention, but otherwise it will be plaintext). For work, I am using this @mentions jQuery plugin which we could use/adapt to insert a special bbcode/tag to signify a mention.
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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
Does anyone know?diego898 wrote:whoops I meant a ticket in the tracker as suggested a couple posts ago
Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
I have been seeing a growing number of people @mentioning users in posts here and ad phpbb.com
Does everybody know @mentions do not work in phpBB?
Anyway, I thought this thread should be resurrected, as @mentions must be becoming a natural instinct for many of us, since I see people using it more and more here.
Maybe its time to take a look at this again (11 pages on this topic means it must be a popular idea)
Does everybody know @mentions do not work in phpBB?
Anyway, I thought this thread should be resurrected, as @mentions must be becoming a natural instinct for many of us, since I see people using it more and more here.
Maybe its time to take a look at this again (11 pages on this topic means it must be a popular idea)
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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
People probably use @name instead of quoting, I imagine they do know it doesn't work, but it's quick and to the point.VSE wrote:Does everybody know @mentions do not work in phpBB?
Quoting while replying is what a large minority don't know is possible I reckon.
Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
+1
Adding @name makes a lot more sense now with the notification system.
Adding @name makes a lot more sense now with the notification system.
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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
+1Mess wrote:+1
Adding @name makes a lot more sense now with the notification system.
Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
+1 of course.
I don't know whether anyone has mentioned it, but there's a mod for 3.0: User Mention MOD
I don't know whether anyone has mentioned it, but there's a mod for 3.0: User Mention MOD
Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
That would no longer apply to 3.1 because now we have the notifications system. So now, an @username would trigger a notification (and email) for that user, rather than a PM.Louis7777 wrote:I don't know whether anyone has mentioned it, but there's a mod for 3.0: User Mention MOD
Also, now that we have live/ajax member search, I would guess that it could be used to start showing the list of users while typing @xx...
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Re: [RFC] Ability to @mention specific users in posts
VSE, we can still have a look at it 
However I think we might run into problems in some situations:
The the following users exist:
Whom should we notify? Yes, the own the user selected from live search. But the code won't know that anymore.
However I think we might run into problems in some situations:
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