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Is it possible to mention users in a comment? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was expecting something like @[email protected], but I don’t think that works. At least for me it's only recognised as an email address. lemm.ee/u/fer0n maybe? Does that notify the user?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is an area of very much needed improvement.

For users, you should use the completion popup. When you type an @ followed by a name it will suggest users matching that, and if you click on one it will fill out a mention with the link to their origin page.
Give it a shot, try mentioning me in a reply!

The issue with this is the link isn't portable, meaning it may get you out of your home instance. The best way to link any user or community is to do /u/[email protected] (for users; /c/ for communities) instead of https://origininstance.tld/u/name. That way the link is relative (so no issue of moving away from your home) and it's fully qualified (so no issue with name clashes between instances).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Testing user tag Tmpod

Myself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I see it now. Maybe an ad blocker got in the way because that’s the first thing I tried. Can you try /u/[email protected]? I‘d like to see if that shows up in my mentions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

/u/[email protected]

It rendered as a link for me, because I'm on 0.18.1 already (RC). Mobile apps might not support it yet.