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

[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.

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[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

https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/issues/869

julianlam created this issue in designcreateplay/NodeBB

closed Reply and Quote should use semi-slugified usernames #869

[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

https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions/issues/176

AliCihan created this issue in julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions

closed erased usernames "[[global:former_user]]" are suggested by the plugin #176