Re: Has anybody implemented @mentions?

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 04:18:51PM -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> 
> While you all enjoy the new beta release, I wanted to ask if anybody
> has implemented @mentions?
> 
> E.G. In a message if I mention @rouilj, that user should receive a
> copy of the message update and on display it should be a link pointing
> to the user's page. @mention processing shouldn't work unless the @ is
> at the beginning of the word and the username exists.

Do you want the mentioned user to end up on the nosy list? I think it
should be possible to achieve this with an auditor -- but a pop-up when
you type the '@' to select from a user-list would probably involve some
javascript magic...

> Also does anybody see a use for processing #hashtag references? What
> would hashtag be (a keyword??)? What use case would it solve for you?
No opinion here, maybe a keyword would be fine, history has shown in the
trackers I maintain that keywords are not used very much.

Ralf
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