## @Mentions

Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sat Nov 05, 2016 12:27 pm

Very unlikely but could there be a way to implement @ in your comment to mention someone? That way you don't have to quote someone so they see it. Like @Oohmynameisblue (insert message).
I'm still waiting on a way to see if someone replied to your post other than bookmarking them all individually.
Would it be that hard? Surely you would only have to use the same code as quoting them.

### Re: @Mentions

Post by MisterBones » Sat Nov 05, 2016 12:43 pm

That isn't something the mods can do.
You'd have to contact the phBB devs
I have ocs or whatever

### Re: @Mentions

Post by xtc » Sat Nov 05, 2016 1:28 pm

> MisterBones wrote:That isn't something the mods can do.
> You'd have to contact the phBB devs

Thank you, MIsterBones; quite right.
However, I wonder if Zanev could arrange something.
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### Re: @Mentions

Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sat Nov 05, 2016 2:21 pm

I hope I don't appear pressurising. But the lack of notification and tagging is my biggest problem right now.

### Re: @Mentions

Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sat Nov 05, 2016 2:40 pm

Could someone else do this for me please? I've tried circa 5 times and t just says "you cannot make a post so soon after your last" and I looked at my posts and it hasn't even posted once :/

### Re: @Mentions

Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sat Nov 05, 2016 2:42 pm

NEVER MIND I DID IT

### Re: @Mentions

Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:30 pm

@Oohmynameisblue
Test

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Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:35 pm

@xtc
XTC DID YOU GET A NOTIFICATION?

### Re: @Mentions

Post by xtc » Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:59 pm

> Oohmynameisblue wrote:@xtc
> XTC DID YOU GET A NOTIFICATION?

Nope!
Where should I see it? It's not in my e-mail.
I know there is a way of getting a "mention" but I've never tried to use the facility. I suggest you ask Bondagefreak who, I believe, uses it.
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!
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### Re: @Mentions

Post by Jason Toddman » Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:19 pm

> Oohmynameisblue wrote:Very unlikely but could there be a way to implement @ in your comment to mention someone? That way you don't have to quote someone so they see it. Like @Oohmynameisblue (insert message).
> I'm still waiting on a way to see if someone replied to your post other than bookmarking them all individually.
> Would it be that hard? Surely you would only have to use the same code as quoting them.

Might be hard for me, as I honestly have no idea what the heck it is you're asking for or what is so bad about quoting someone else.
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### Re: @Mentions

Post by gaggedrock29 » Sat Nov 05, 2016 6:55 pm

It seems like they want a twitter like tagging system. Like if you wanted to tweet Joe Blow, you would put @joeblow.

### Re: @Mentions

Post by Jason Toddman » Sat Nov 05, 2016 7:20 pm

> gaggedrock29 wrote:It seems like they want a twitter like tagging system. Like if you wanted to tweet Joe Blow, you would put @joeblow.

Ah, that explains why I don't know what Blue wanted. I've never used Twitter and never used or even saw Tweets except in news stories.
More and more I'm beginning to understand why my mother had never heard of certain things *I* took for granted a generation ago! Even for a 60-year-old i feel like i'm unusually out of touch about certain things.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

### Re: @Mentions

Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sun Nov 06, 2016 3:54 am

> xtc wrote:

> > Oohmynameisblue wrote:@xtc
> > XTC DID YOU GET A NOTIFICATION?

> Nope!
> Where should I see it? It's not in my e-mail.
> I know there is a way of getting a "mention" but I've never tried to use the facility. I suggest you ask Bondagefreak who, I believe, uses it.

Probably you would see it in the notification panel at the top.
The mods I asked referred to me a twenty five page thread, in which the jist was someone tried to do it but abandoned it because it was too hard. The method I just used was
[url=userprofile]@username[/url]
However I will contact bondage freak.

### Re: @Mentions

Post by Oohmynameisblue » Sun Nov 06, 2016 3:56 am

> Jason Toddman wrote:

> > Oohmynameisblue wrote:Very unlikely but could there be a way to implement @ in your comment to mention someone? That way you don't have to quote someone so they see it. Like @Oohmynameisblue (insert message).
> > I'm still waiting on a way to see if someone replied to your post other than bookmarking them all individually.
> > Would it be that hard? Surely you would only have to use the same code as quoting them.

> Might be hard for me, as I honestly have no idea what the heck it is you're asking for or what is so bad about quoting someone else.

It's not a huge problem but sometimes you don't want to refer to a specific thing that someone has said, or it would just be a lot easier and less confusing. And apparently the devs would be able to do it, as well as someone who could create an "extension", but I was apparently very hard.