It's something I've become quite fond of on another forum I frequent - I had originally mentioned this idea to mike, who seemed interested but obviously never implemented it (no idea if that was an executive decision or that he just forgot/had other things to do). The premise, is something like twitter or facebook - you might call it 'Mentioning' instead of tagging. Someone makes a post in a thread, say... "Oh @Grey_Knightmare is really cool!" (obviously :derpe When I next login I get a notification saying x mentioned me in x thread - making me more inclined to notice and take a look at it. I think it'll help keep discussions alive a bit longer, as you're not relying on people to remember to check them periodically or subscribe to them. What would Everypony think of something like that?
I like this idea But what if they don't use my full name. Not many type Echoax. They leave the AX, same with Yami or Rex and tons of others.
I agree that it's a pain, having to remember where to check for replies. This is a feature I've seen on quite a few forums, and I think it'd definitely be very useful here. I remember it also being suggested that users get notifications when somebody quotes them- Which might avoid Pixel's problem. Both seem like good ideas to me.
@Echo <- Like that, right? Yeah that probably wouldn't work, ...Maybe if you could click on a users' name and the option is on that dropdown? "Mention user" and it wraps the code around the text in the reply box? Something like that, or as DoDo said, quoting someone isn't an overly bad idea, though there are many occasions where I'd mention without quoting. Perhaps both?
Maybe if they know that using your full name may summon your presence, it'll encourage them to stick to it. :derpe:
Sounds like a pretty good idea, hope to see it implemented sometime in the future! Reminds me of how I missed a happy birthday thread because I didn't see it in the New Posts section, so, would be really handy to avoid situations like that if this feature is implemented sometime.
I must have forgotten about it. I suppose you're talking about this? Would probably be a nice feature to have. If you guys are going to install it, remind me to throw you the login details.
Nice idea Grey, I'm all for it. As for the name problem Echo mentioned, would it be possible to have a suggestion box appear as you type their name, a la the one used when sending a new private message? It would allow people still type names like, Echo, Yami or SR20 (I can see names like mine being a problem to simply remember), and then be suggested the full, correctly spelled, name for them to choose. Of course, I've no idea how difficult that would be to implement, just a suggestion.
Sounds like an interesting idea. The closest thing to this that I've ever experienced are Facebook notifications, and those are pretty fun by themselves, so why not?
You would need to separately parse each individual word in a post and treat it collectively like a structure or array -- which is not efficient... The recipient box works well because it relies on a breaking character (semi-colon) which tells when to begin then end the string search for each "name". With that said, maybe a method could be written to search for @'s then test the name string after it...but that's a bit above my level of knowledge with web scripting... Grey's input on adding a dropmenu item to insert the name would probably be easier.
The easiest method would be to simply use a preexisting product or plugin, but otherwise, lots of things are possible, including name suggestion - you'd use a seperate field underneath the post content though, similar to how you add tags to a thread - rather than parsing and checking the whole thing.
Ah yes, I almost forgot about the tagging box. Anybody good with AJAX? Also, was re-reviewing the feature list for the DBTech plugin -- in addition to @tagging it has quote alerts as well; which I know some people were wanting in the past too. I'd at least give it a test run.
I don't think anybody really looked. Nobody has even come to me for the login yet. :/ I would just do it myself but I can't.
