[nodebb-plugin-mentions] Username Mentions have landed!

[mouseluka]

does not work with names containing the point

smth like this @mouse.luka

[Schamper]

@mouseluka said:

does not work with names containing the point

smth like this @mouse.luka

It should, since the slug for that would be mouse-luka. So @mouse-luka should actually mention the user mouse.luka.

[mouseluka]

So Reply button should use the name with "-"

[julian]

@mouseluka you're right, it should. That's a bug

Reply and Quote should use semi-slugified usernames · Issue #869 · NodeBB/NodeBB

Clicking reply on a user with my username (julian) works perfectly, although usernames with spaces are not slugified properly... However, there's no need to call Utils.slugify, since mentions already slugifies it before identifying the u...

GitHub (github.com)

[julian]

v0.4.1-2 Released

• Compatibility with v0.4.0 of NodeBB
• Mentions autocomplete should no longer suggest lower-case names even though the search results show proper capitalisation
• Usernamed with periods are better supported.
  • Still a couple edge cases here and there, but working better than before.

[a_5mith]

@julian Brilliant, silly question, how do I go about updating? Is it npm update?

[finid]

@a_5mith

Yip, npm up or npm update.

[a_5mith]

@planner Thanks.

[julian]

As @planner says, npm up can do it. You can also instruct npm to install a specific version: npm i [email protected]

[quahfamili]

@julian I m thinking if it is possible to @<group name> to "announce" to the whole group... I seems to have the group there but it does not works...

[crazycells]

erased usernames are suggested by the plugin

erased usernames "[[global:former_user]]" are suggested by the plugin · Issue #176 · julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions

composer is suggesting non-existent users since they have posts under the topic.

GitHub (github.com)

[crazycells]

thanks @baris , [email protected] fixes the issue.