Mess wrote:We are talked about adding auto complete to mentions right?
So if someone adds an "@" phpBB will then start trying to auto complete after for example 3 additional letters are typed. Just like on smartphones and tablets. Then it shouldn't matter if someone wanted to use a name made up entirely of @'s and spaces.
Am I missing something obvious?
You're not. They seem to be arguing outside of this idea, which is probably what we'd go with anyways:
DavidIQ wrote:There might be an auto-complete plugin by jQuery that might work for this though and won't need the WYSIWYG editor so that as one types the "@" without any text before it and follows it with letters or numbers one can select from a list and the user gets inserted. Would be kind of like Facebook does it I guess.
So in the end it doesn't matter if we use a BBCode or not (we probably would) as it would be taken care of "behind the scenes" through the auto-complete list. There is no point in arguing if we'd use the @ symbol to make this work sometimes or a BBCode to make it work all the time since it would likely end up being a combination of both.