SMF 2.1 Beta 1 Released

[Synergy Hub]

Having personally been a major player in similar volunteer development projects (hardware & software) I know how that goes..   Great feedback... thank you. 

Even that estimate would be pointless, because we have a completely different set of developers from the past releases...   Additionally, we are all volunteers, so how much time gets spent on development in any given week depends on what our dev folks are doing on and offline that week.

As runic notes, we never have and never will even give an estimate on a release date..

[PLAYBOY]

I think a FB style tagging system would have been nice also. So you`ll know if someone is talking about you in another post.

[margarett]

But there is one Not with your name directly, but preceded by @

[PLAYBOY]

You mean without a mod ? if I write someones name with @ in font then that person will get a notification?

[Bigguy]

Yup.

[Burke ♞ Knight]

I'm not certain, but you may need to use the person's username and not display name.

[Illori]

you use the display name, not the username unless both happen to be the exact same name.

[Burke ♞ Knight]

Ahhh... Okay... Just that I believe some mods used username, so did not know what the 2.1 mentions used.
Thank you for clarifying.

[Illori]

Ahhh... Okay... Just that I believe some mods used username, so did not know what the 2.1 mentions used.
Thank you for clarifying.

then that mod must be useless, as if the username and display name are different the username is not shown to anyone but the user and admin.

[PLAYBOY]

Ok I`m kinda confused by the above answers. So do I have to install a mod for this or is it already built in and I can use it in any theme?

[Deaks]

best bet try a test install and see all the features for yourself

[Steve]

Bryan's right of course, that is the best way. But just to clarify, the answer to your questions "You mean without a mod ? if I write someones name with @ in font then that person will get a notification?" is yes, as long as you use their display name.

[Kindred]

and even more importantly... 2.1 is still in BETA....   this means that you should not be using it on a production site.

[Deaks]

and even more importantly... 2.1 is still in BETA....   this means that you should not be using it on a production site.

darn and I just updated my site I didnt really

[Arantor]

Yes but your site has people who can squish bugs when they appear...

[PLAYBOY]

I think it could be better instead of having @, it picked up the username while you type like in Facebook. If you have a friend name John and you`re writing something about John, it finds him and asks you to tag right away.

[Suki]

I think it could be better instead of having @, it picked up the username while you type like in Facebook. If you have a friend name John and you`re writing something about John, it finds him and asks you to tag right away.

That would be highly impractical,  imagine if you have an user whos display/uesername is "the" or some other common word in your forum's language?


Anyway, the script already picks up the display name as you type it (as in it gives you suggestions based on what you typed), really, the beta has been up for quite a long time now, go install a demo forum and test the mention feature for yourself.

[Mstcool]

I think it could be better instead of having @, it picked up the username while you type like in Facebook. If you have a friend name John and you`re writing something about John, it finds him and asks you to tag right away.

That would be highly impractical,  imagine if you have an user whos display/uesername is "the" or some other common word in your forum's language?


Anyway, the script already picks up the display name as you type it (as in it gives you suggestions based on what you typed), really, the beta has been up for quite a long time now, go install a demo forum and test the mention feature for yourself.

What if ur display name changes? Do the names in previous mentioned replies stay the same or change? Will be link to the new name or what? And what if someone chooses the previous name? Then what? Just curious lool

[Acans]

Stay the same. However since the member ID stays the same, the link will still work.

[Suki]

I think it could be better instead of having @, it picked up the username while you type like in Facebook. If you have a friend name John and you`re writing something about John, it finds him and asks you to tag right away.

That would be highly impractical,  imagine if you have an user whos display/uesername is "the" or some other common word in your forum's language?


Anyway, the script already picks up the display name as you type it (as in it gives you suggestions based on what you typed), really, the beta has been up for quite a long time now, go install a demo forum and test the mention feature for yourself.

What if ur display name changes? Do the names in previous mentioned replies stay the same or change? Will be link to the new name or what? And what if someone chooses the previous name? Then what? Just curious lool

It can be done, the id is all thats needed to get an always updated display name but due to performance, it is not done that way.

When you are mentioning someone it will always show the current display name that particular user has so you can't really chose a past username because it won't show up.