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[Eckhart Aurelius Hughes]

Exciting Announcement, I just installed a new mention system for the Philosophy Forums.

The mention system uses the following BBCode in which you replace USERNAME with the username of the member you want to tag:

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[mention]USERNAME[/mention]

However, as an easy shortcut you can type the @ symbol and then begin typing the first few letters of members name, and a popup box should appear. You can then click the name of the member you want to tag, which will quickly generate the BBCode for you.

As an example, I will tag Greta now.

Tagging a member not only highlights their name, but it should send a notification to the member according to their settings on the Notification Options section of the Board Preferences Tab of the User Control Panel (UCP).

[Eduk]

Scott awesome.

[Sy Borg]

Scott - it's a quicker and easier alternative to quoting where context isn't important.

[ktz]

Very cool. Out of curiosity, is this something you achieved with a phpBB plugin of some kind, or did you write the PHP for the feature yourself? Is there a discussion of the site's technical stuff anywhere?

[ktz]

Oops, forgot to Scott

[Eckhart Aurelius Hughes]

Very cool. Out of curiosity, is this something you achieved with a phpBB plugin of some kind, or did you write the PHP for the feature yourself? Is there a discussion of the site's technical stuff anywhere?

The mention system is a phpBB extension written by someone else, available publicly. If you have a phpBB forum and need the public link to the extension, let me know.

[ktz]

Thanks for the info, no I was just asking because I have messed around a bit with PHP and was curious about the technical side of phpBB.

I'm thinking of building a community forum as a hobby project in node.js, so I've been poking around a bit on sites like this one, arguman, hacker news etc. for some perspective on what kind of design challenges I could expect to face.

[Georgeanna]

@Scott - it's a quicker and easier alternative to quoting where context isn't important.

@Greta - testing, testing. Not sure how this works.

[Georgeanna]

Greta

Got it. But what a palaver. I had to type in all the mentions etc. There has to be an easier way that I'm not seeing...help ?!

[Burning ghost]

Georgeanna

Type “@“ and then start typing name and select the name in dropbox.

[Georgeanna]

Burning ghost

Ah, OK, thanks. It worked this time. I did follow the instructions as provided by Scott but perhaps I didn't wait long enough for the Dropbox to...er...drop.