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Track mentions
Title:
Track mentions
Area:
notifications
Summary:
Enable users to track when they're mentioned elsewhere on DW.
Description:
Any time someone writes an entry with <user name="desh"> (desh) in it, that should fire off an event that I can subscribe to and be notified for.
Ideally, this would fire every time an entry is posted that I have access to and that mentions my name, every time an entry that I have access to is edited and mentions my name but didn't mention it pre-editing, and every time the access rules for an entry are edited such that I now have access to it and my name's in it. (It's probably a bad idea to also notify for all old entries any time someone adds me to their access list, though.)
The same would happen for new/edited comments (either as a separate "when I'm mentioned in a comment" event, or as part of the same "when I'm mentioned anywhere" event).
EDIT: There are a lot of variations and pros and cons discussed in the comments below. For those who are not interested in reading all of it, I'd like to direct you to this thread, in which a so-far-noncontroversial modification is discussed.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
11 (21.6%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
17 (33.3%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
19 (37.3%)
(I have no opinion)
4 (7.8%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
shorter username code with ping option
I don't use facebook or twitter or buzz, but now I understand that it's about inviting someone to join the conversation.
My vote is for creating a shorter way to write usernames:
@noracharles for <user name=noracharles>
@nora_charles.lj for <user name=nora_charles site=livejournal.com>
@noracharles* for <user name=noracharles ping>
(I don't know enough about code to know whether an asterisk would be the best ping symbol, it's just a suggestion.)
Re: shorter username code with ping option
Oh, yes. Never mind the faux-html for plain old usernames, but the LJ usernames are almost three times longer than the actual usernames...
Re: shorter username code with ping option
A shorter way to write usernames would be brilliant!!
Re: A shorter way to write usernames would be brilliant!!
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I like dw-username, it looks nicer to me (which shouldn't matter, since it would change to
@ is an alt key on the left side of the Danish keyboard, which means it requires two hands to type.
Re: shorter username code with ping option
I don't really get the objection to @ - contextually it's a 'I'm name-dropping you' or 'I'm sending something to your attention', nothing more. I'm pretty sure Twitter hasn't copyrighted the syntax/idea, given that FaceBook has a similar thing.
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