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One additional feature I was thinking about, a bit of a leap, would be that ability of the user to configure their own user group to send mentions to, a subset of their friends that they may wish to send shouts to.

Setting up arbitrary groups of members is a good idea, but I think that functionality should belong in a separate plugin. This plugin…[Read more]

Oh and I forgot to answer:

Is it possible to post a message to a group (and all members) from my own (activity) stream? Like just type “@locomotives-group messagemessagemessage” and post it in my stream to do the same thing as your plugin does now when I post “@group messagemessagemessage” on the group wall?

This kind of thing, whilst a good id…[Read more]

My @group sent an alert (red dot) to group members! Functioning

@jmunce thanks for testing!

The problem @venutius found earlier was due to a conflict with another plugin. This will be resolved in the next version.

@venutius you may have spotted a bug! Can you try again with @group and @mod (both lowercase)?

@venutius you’ll need to ensure the activity, groups and notification components are all activated. Of course, BuddyPress also needs to be installed.

Within a group, if you create an activity update or comment with the text @group, everyone in that group will get a web notification. The same goes for @mod, but in that case only moderators within…[Read more]

Hi @jmunce @venutius

I’ve just finished building Crowdmentions. Currently the @group and @mod commands are supported when used within a group context. I’ll be adding support for more commands going forward, such as @friends.

I’d be grateful for your feedback if you have time to test it out.

Thanks 🙂

cc @shanebp @djpaul

I agree a context-sensitive @group is a good idea. I don’t think anything wider reach than “All friends” or “all group members” is a great idea because of how noisy it would be on any decently-sized BP site

Completely agree @djpaul. I’ll make it so.

Thanks @venutius! I’ll let you know once it’s ready by posting back here.

I agree a context-sensitive @group is a good idea. I don’t think anything wider reach than “All friends” or “all group members” is a great idea because of how noisy it would be on any decently-sized BP site, but super glad to see you’re exploring the idea in a plugin. That’s how you find out what works and prove the idea 🙂

How would you guys suggest this works?

@group

@channel

What if these are usernames too? I’m wondering about the best way to do this.