Especially since this is entirely new behavior - nobody from another site would expect using [personal profile] desh to notify you
Entirely new to the LJ/DW codebase, yeah. Not at all new in the Twitter/Facebook world. I think mention-notification over there is a fantastic thing, and it's why I suggested it. LJ/DW have a much more complicated universe of privacy controls (for better or for worse, including security-through-obscurity controls), and that means that the feature would have to be implemented much more carefully, as I'm learning from the comments here. (I'm not even voting for my own suggestion to be implemented unaltered anymore.) But that complication shouldn't, in my opinion, prevent the feature from happening at all.
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Entirely new to the LJ/DW codebase, yeah. Not at all new in the Twitter/Facebook world. I think mention-notification over there is a fantastic thing, and it's why I suggested it. LJ/DW have a much more complicated universe of privacy controls (for better or for worse, including security-through-obscurity controls), and that means that the feature would have to be implemented much more carefully, as I'm learning from the comments here. (I'm not even voting for my own suggestion to be implemented unaltered anymore.) But that complication shouldn't, in my opinion, prevent the feature from happening at all.