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

[julian]

Version 0.1.12 of the mentions plugin has been released, and now mentions contain the online status of the user as well as case-insensitivity. No need to be completely exact with your mentions now

e.g. @julian

[maniacmusic]

Shouldn't that be core... ?

[julian]

Hey @maniacmusic - it sure is! It's bundled by default with every NodeBB install, although you can easily deactivate it and uninstall it if you'd prefer not to have it.

[maniacmusic]

Nice, I like this modular design, fantastic.

[quahfamili]

@julian

Suddenly have an idea to improve the mentions, how about making an autocompletion for the typed word? Ajax feel? hee

[julian]

Hehe, that would be nice, I'd like that to be a part of it too.

[dove]

@julian I noticed that mentions doesn't work when username has a space between words

[julian]

Hi @dove -- that is true. They'd work if you use the sluggified version (so, dashes instead of spaces).

Looking to improve on this in a future release of the mentions plugin.

[Bri]

@julian Dude you're awesome! I just noticed the autocomplete

[julian]

Hahha, a ways to go with that one too, but @baris is the one who should get the kudos for that

[Bri]

Oh, well in that case @baris, Awesome! I also just noticed that your name doesn't autocomplete.... is this only looking at the usernames of users that have posted in the thread rather than the whole forum?

[julian]

For now, yes... it's a matter of efficiency at this point. Once we have more time to devote to the plugin, it'll get better

[Schamper]

@julian our forum has a custom composer.js that features full forum user autofill. Unfortunately it also requires a custom database function for doing a fuzzy search on the usernames.

http://i.imgur.com/a5FnTOJ.png

[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.