Mentions

[Kenshi]

For some reason, I haven't got a mention since my count hit 5, and I visibly saw several others "mention" me the same way the earlier ones had. I know this isn't a universal problem since there are dozens of users with counts higher than 5, so what is this?

Not that I don't enjoy having less notifications, but it's always the quotes that drive people crazy, anyhow.

 

[Kavidun]

I don't get this either. What exactly counts as a 'mention'?

 

[Blazevoir]

I don't get this either. What exactly counts as a 'mention'?

A "mention" is when you get notified if someone quotes you or if someone tags you in the thread.

 

[Kenshi]

Getting tagged or quoted in a thread and getting mentioned in a post are different things, actually. As far as I recall mentions are when somebody places a @ before your name, but doesn't quote your whole post. I'm not getting those.

 

[Blazevoir]

Well, maybe people are doing it wrong. @Kenshi should notify you.

 

[Kenshi]

Huh, that's weird. Over here it didn't do anything. (And this happened at least 3 times)

Maybe something went wrong with the OtB section as a whole?

 

[Hunter Blade]

Wait, I thought you had to have a ; at the end of a name? Because when we first found out about this just going @Blazevoir wouldn't work.

Hmmm. @Hunter Blade

Edit: Ah, I see. Just delete the semi-colon and it still works.

 

[Kenshi]

Yeah, this is weird. Not to mention I've even seen any semicolons at the end of any of my past mentions.

But just for kicks, @Kenshi;

 

[Archaic]

I've just turned off the require semicolon. Hopefully that'll fix things.

I've also turned off thread tags, since no one was using that component for now. May re-enable it later if there's a demand or a use for it.

 

[Kenshi]

I can't see the thread tag or mentions now, though. I'll take a minute to check if those are still in profiles, but I doubt it.

Edit: Okay, they're still in profiles at least. Still think it's pretty weird that mentions and thread tags died down simultaneously, though.

 

[Archaic]

@Kenshi - The mentions should work perfectly well. It's just been removed from the postbit, since that looked a bit ugly with how long it was getting. The thread tags weren't being used, but we'll consider re-enabling those if people want them.

 

[Kenshi]

Yeah, I didn't mean they were entirely gone by "died out," sorry if my wording was a bit weird.

 

[Hunter Blade]

Awww. Now we don't have the giant list of people at the top of the Conversational Thread.
Oh well, we did that for fun. Don't really understand what it's for anyway.