As designed Alert for something that's been edited out.

[Steve Freides]

Affected version

2.2.1

I don't know if this is a bug in XF's eyes, but because my users can edit their posts, I sometimes get an alert that I've been tagged in a post, only to find that the post has been edited and I am no longer mentioned. I can confirm that behavior as described because I see the edit history.

Would be nice if a tagging gets removed, so does the alert.

-S-

 

[Mike]

As it stands, this is expected with mention alerts. We don't do any edit-based actions with them (one of the reasons why editing in a mention won't send alerts).

This isn't exactly "as designed", but it is a known behavior.

 

[Steve Freides]

Thank you, @Mike.

-S-

 

[Digital Doctor]

As it stands, this is expected with mention alerts.

This has been a tiny problem, but When people go back to a post and specifically add a mention - it really MEANS something to them. The user really cares about sending the message. It is a unexpected, unpleasant event that someone actually cared about and took time to accomplish.



(1) How about a notice that mentions won't be sent after edits, even if there are new mention additions in the edited copy ?

(2) Another idea would be to disable the user mentions dropdown for edited posts. It really is a mixed message to allow dropdown selection for something that wont happen.



(3) Any edited and reposted posts with @mentions (new or old) could just generically warn users that @mentions are only sent with the first original post to avoid spamming.

 

[Ozzy47]

Send Alerts When Editing a Message and Mentioning (Tagging) or Quoting a User

Per this, I think it would be nice if when someone edits their message to quote or tag another user, it still sends them an alert as if you had quoted or tagged them when submitting the initial message.

xenforo.com

 

[Steve Freides]

@Digital Doctor, FWIW, you don’t need to see the dropdown for tagging to work.

-S-

 

[Digital Doctor]

@Digital Doctor, FWIW, you don’t need to see the dropdown for tagging to work.

-S-

I know.

 

[Steve Freides]

This has been a tiny problem, but When people go back to a post and specifically add a mention - it really MEANS something to them. The user really cares about sending the message. It is a unexpected, unpleasant event that someone actually cared about and took time to accomplish.

I'm with you here - this would be nice. Editing a post has the same potential to create or remove "content" as creating a post does.

-S-

 

[Ozzy47]

I'm with you here - this would be nice. Editing a post has the same potential to create or remove "content" as creating a post does.

-S-

There is an open suggestion for that, https://xenforo.com/community/threa...d-mentioning-tagging-or-quoting-a-user.62619/