Targeted Multi-User tagging

crazycells

Is it possible to tag users who posted in a specific topic?

Facebook started this a while ago, where you can tag all users in the group for important announcements using the "@everyone" tag ...

Although we do not have use case for forum-wide announcements, from time to time, we do need to inform all users who specifically posted under a title for important announcements about that topic. I wonder if there is an easy way to implement this?

<baris>

We could add @everyone to mention everyone who posted in the topic. What happens if there is a user everyone do they get notified as well?

phenomlab

@baris surely, that would be a banned username you can't use?

PitaJ

@here makes more sense for just the people in a topic

crazycells

maybe both @everyone and @here can be used for all users in the forum and all users in the topic, respectively. (is it possible to make it available for privileged users only?)

@oplik0 's plugin will come in handy for restricting those usernames

GitHub - oplik0/nodebb-plugin-restrict-usernames

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crazycells

I opened a GH issue for this request...

I suggest the usage of @everyone and @here to notify all users in the forum and on the topic, respectively... but only by privileged users...

If you object to the general usage of everyone, it is also OK to use @everyone for all users on the topic... That will be our main way to use this, I mean to notify users who already posted on a particular topic...

https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions/issues/244

crazycells

Previously, I don't remember usernames being underlined. It seems that currently, both links and mentions are underlined. However, I find that this disrupts the flow of reading, particularly in longer posts. It places an unnecessary emphasis on the underlined words/sentences, which can be distracting. I'm curious whether this feature is enabled through a plugin or if it is default behavior of NodeBB itself. Additionally, I wonder if it is possible to adjust this styling using CSS to better suit readability preferences.

<baris>

It is default in nodebb 3.7.0. It can be disabled by css.

[component="chat/message/body"],
[component="post/content"],
[component="topic/teaser"] .post-content,
[component="category/posts"] .post-content {
	a { text-decoration: none;}
}

It's part of the changes we are doing to improve accessibility. Either we have to use a different link color that has more contrast with surrounding text or we have to underline links.

More info https://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-0-and-link-colors/

crazycells

@baris thanks for the clarification, disabling by css will not cause any side effects, right?

<baris>

Nope it is actually just a css change in harmony to implement it https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-harmony/blob/main/scss/common.scss#L124-L129. So you would be just reverting that.

julian

@crazycells perhaps I should point out that you can technically mention the registered-users group

But the mentions plugin explicitly excludes it for the aforementioned spammy reason.

crazycells

@julian said in Targeted Multi-User tagging:

@crazycells perhaps I should point out that you can technically mention the registered-users group

But the mentions plugin explicitly excludes it for the aforementioned spammy reason.

Is there any way to tag all the users who posted a specific a topic?

like using @here and all the users who posted on this topic previously will get a notification?

<baris>

Nope we haven't built @here to mention everyone in a topic.

crazycells

@baris i know it is nothing urgent, but looking forward to having this addition

https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions/issues/244