Implemented @Username tagging syntax in posts with alert notifications

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Wired said:
Same way every other forum does, by hitting the Quote (or would it be Quick Quote) button.

I know it wasn't meant as a quote, but it's somewhat of a compromise in the middle.
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Well if you're going to press the "quick quote" button, why wouldn't you just hit the "reply" button? :p Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the point in having two near-identical features.
 
Enigma said:
My idea for using @Nick syntax was not to quote people's posts. It was simply an easy way to automatically link to people's profiles and for them to get a notification of the post, since someone had addressed them or mentioned them.
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I understand that, but my point was something that I see as a big issue that comes with it.
 
I think its an awesome idea. It's what I've been looking for in my forum for a while, because our forum benefits a lot from speed. Time is not on our side, and with something that makes notification easier, it would save a lot of that precious time. VB has a mod just like it, and it seems to do wonders, from my birds eye view of course. The space in a username doesn't matter, if you have an end mark. @User Name; or something similar. I agree since there seems to be 50/50 on all for it and all against it, that it should be a feature with an off switch.
 
I think this falls into the category of if it's easily doable in the code that's already there why not make it a toggle on/off type of feature in the Admin section of the site. That way people can tailor their forums to how they want them.
 
what you guys are wanting here will result in a kitchen-sink-approach. Go and get yourself BuddyPress.org and then you will have all those kind of features.
Maybe fine for a Add-on, but I would not like to see it as per default in XF as it would add nothing but confusion.
 
sinclair said:
I think its an awesome idea. It's what I've been looking for in my forum for a while, because our forum benefits a lot from speed. Time is not on our side, and with something that makes notification easier, it would save a lot of that precious time. VB has a mod just like it, and it seems to do wonders, from my birds eye view of course. The space in a username doesn't matter, if you have an end mark. @User Name; or something similar. I agree since there seems to be 50/50 on all for it and all against it, that it should be a feature with an off switch.
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Then why not just quote the person you're replying to? They get a notification of it already and you don't need to toss up @username in there.
 
Sorry I should have been more clear.

In my forum, we have mods and specialists (etc, etc). Basically the mod's welcome users and then tell them which specialist or specialist group is on their way to help them out. It would be great if the current reply read:

Hello __________, welcome to _______!

One of our @GROUP NAME; will be by shortly to help you out with your ______ problem.

Or:

Hello __________, welcome to _______!

We have a member who specializes in that area. His name is @NAME; , and he will be by shortly to help you out with your ______ problem.

Instead of:

Hello __________, welcome to _______!

One of our members will be by shortly to help you out with your ______ problem.
 
Jesepi said:
That would have the potential to get incredibly messy unless you did the above example of @username
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Not really, its how Twitter collects the @usernames and puts them into a section for "mention."

You can see this example at This thread - ignore that stupid box (tag list), but the postbit documents how many mentions yov've had and posts themselves have the @insignia but takes you to the user profile.
 
cloning FaceBook, Twitter and also having a forum all at one website will kill the UI and add confusion instead of having a clean and logic interface.
 
sinclair said:
Sorry I should have been more clear.

In my forum, we have mods and specialists (etc, etc). Basically the mod's welcome users and then tell them which specialist or specialist group is on their way to help them out. It would be great if the current reply read:

Hello __________, welcome to _______!

One of our @GROUP NAME; will be by shortly to help you out with your ______ problem.

Or:

Hello __________, welcome to _______!

We have a member who specializes in that area. His name is @NAME; , and he will be by shortly to help you out with your ______ problem.

Instead of:

Hello __________, welcome to _______!

One of our members will be by shortly to help you out with your ______ problem.
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Wouldn't it be better to use canned responses in that case and have all the info linked and everything in that?
 
No, because that would call for 1,000,000's of canned responses. We're a support site for hundreds of thousands of people, all with unique problems.
 
Ah, I understand that. :)

Still, definitely don't think this is the kind of posting behavior that should be encouraged. Modification likely, and staff-specific maybe, but something that a regular user can use and get into the habit of typing @username; instead of quoting a post in a thread? No.
 
Yeah, maybe a staff member feature only? Or if there was a way for staff to notify a specific group of a thread easily, that would solve the issue.
 
erich37 said:
cloning FaceBook, Twitter and also having a forum all at one website will kill the UI and add confusion instead of having a clean and logic interface.
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It's just an option, not everybody has to turn it on. it will surely create more traffic as it motivates users to reply
 
Enigma said:
Thanks for the discussion folks. I think the deal breaker is that usernames can have spaces in them, making this very hard to pull off. So doing something like this is probably not a very good idea.
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This.

What about non-regex names? Some sites use some interesting names.
 

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