@user notation: A Feature Suggestion
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I’ve been noticing a lot of people here are using the @user notation (most recently popularized by Twitter) here in the forums. It doesn’t actually do anything, of course, but I was thinking it would be very cool if it actually did.
What I’m thinking is that if someone actually used the notation @stwc somewhere on the site (for example), a notification would be fired off (appearing on the buddybar) to that user (ie me, in this case), and clicking on the notification would take the user to the item in question, whether it’s a wire comment or a forum thread or [anywhere else]. I think it would really help pull together the kind of… loosely-coupled… way that various communication channels on a BP install work. It could also appear as a stream in the user’s messages area…
This might be something better implemented in a plugin than in core, but I thought I’d throw it out there.
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hum, interesting, i think this is a real good idea. could be coded as a plugin, would be easy *(once i know how to code one for BP)…
Might be seeing this sooner than later.
O.K.
fine with me
Threaded forum doesn’t sound that good to me though, an @ function doesn’t either. I think the old quote function works best on a forum. Most populair forum softwares still use it, so can’t be all that bad.
it’s not the quote that is the problem… a “who quoted me” function is what is needed if we interpret it the good way…
i coded something similar for vBulletin, where people were “rated” by popularity when rating was based on how much people were quoting you in a forum… maybe this rating thing can be fun to add in BP, as a lot of features are compared already…
OK, created a trac enhancement request per Jeff’s suggestion. Hope I did it right
.Here.
By the way, I wasn’t thinking that this would be implemented as something required or anything like that, or even that it would be used for quoting excerpts of what people have said. But when people did use it (and once they noticed the functionality, further use would presumably just emerge) without really thinking about it, as they already do, it would be kinda delightful to have it provide notification functionality (which could be turned off, too, I guess).
Just a simple link to the posted item, wherever it might appear, that has @myusername in it as notifications in my buddybar and maybe a stream in my messages inbox area somewhere. But those would be implementation details, if the general idea is deemed a good one.
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