tag users

[andrewjs18]

the ability to alert a user inside a thread and/or a post using something like @username would be a very nice feature, I believe. this will help keep the forums competitive with the growing trend to use social media sites for discussions. with 2.0 adding the like feature, a facebook thing, really, this would also be a nice addition as well.


I looked through the first 4 pages of threads in this section and didn't see anything for this. if there is, and I missed it, I apologize.

[Jones H]

Though I can't confirm anything officially I'm pretty sure some of those "smaller" features will be implemented. Also (as nothing like this has been implemented so far) we may end with a slightly different implementation (eg to handle special characters, especially whitespaces).

[Euan T]

It is likely this will be implemented using a similar technique to Wildcard's mentionMe, with the form @"Username here" for usernames with spaces.

[andrewjs18]

Though I can't confirm anything officially I'm pretty sure some of those "smaller" features will be implemented. Also (as nothing like this has been implemented so far) we may end with a slightly different implementation (eg to handle special characters, especially whitespaces).

It is likely this will be implemented using a similar technique to Wildcard's mentionMe, with the form @"Username here" for usernames with spaces.

however you guys think it'll work best.  it'll definitely be an awesome feature, if implemented, and help bring mybb to the next level.  

I had thought there was plugin that accomplished this, but I wasn't sure who made it or what it was called.  I shall go check out wildcard's mentionme plugin to see if it'll work for 1.8 for now.

[Euan T]

Hi,

Your feature suggestion has been accepted as a planned feature to be implemented in MyBB 2.0. Thanks for your contribution!

[Michael Z.]

Cool And we will get an alert when someone tag us?

[Euan T]

Of course

[expat]

Can there be a dual relationship between posts and users, and users and tags in a post?

ie. ALL public groups with users should be able to be searched and AJAX'ed in for autocomplete?

users tagged in a post then have tags of that posts or just postID assigned to them?

eg....post about Paris, France, you tag a French user, and all the tags in the post about food, wine etc or just the postID are allocated to him?

[Euan T]

That sounds like something pretty niche to me that would be better as a plugin really. The tagging system will act similarly to Twitter's mentions.

[User 2877]

And what about when a user changes their name and then another user takes it? I personally just don't believe in tagging users on a forum. I can already just say @andrewjs18. I don't know the additional good it will do to have that as a profile link to the user. We already have a quote and multi-quote system and a planned notification system.

It's features like this that create bloat-ware.