New feature: mentions in posts

What happens when I mention myself, @princec?

Ah, nothing.

Cas :slight_smile:

It indeed prunes self-mentions :slight_smile:

You get a community that looks weirdly at you for talking to yourself in written form… :slight_smile:

Mike

That sidebar box needs to be moved into the Unread page, as I never noticed this until now I decide to go through the many pages of unread posts.

This is a pretty cool feature, nice job Riven.

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Uh :persecutioncomplex:

With the latest update any mention of a username is tracked: the ā€˜@’ prefix or ā€˜:’ postfix is no longer mandatory. Our beloved member ā€˜actual’ will be the prime victim, I suppose :persecutioncomplex:

The load on MySQL was so high that it corrupted tables, so I reduced the amount of work in the cronjob. :persecutioncomplex:

MyISAM is bonkers.

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It has been done! yay. Looks good so far.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but my mentions just went from 25 to 23. I would presume that the count goes down when you read a post that mentioned you? However, I can’t seem to get the count any lower than 23. Is there a way to mark all as read? Or to view a list of all of my mentions, not just the latest 5 on the sidebar?

Edit- And while I’m here: is it just me, or is that little ā€œthere are X new postsā€ message that displays at the top not working today?

Well the site is undergoing changes as we speak. That is probably why.

Also pretty sure Riven will fix the count and a way to mark.

It should work now… :persecutioncomplex:

http://www.java-gaming.org/content/mentions

That’s what I figured. I’m not complaining or anything, just giving some feedback about what’s going on, from the user’s end.

Cool. However, my mention count doesn’t seem to be going down as I read the posts listed on that page.

Also, did you mean to leave the rndm() column in?

Yup, but it will be replaced with something better. :stuck_out_tongue:

There is no (automatic/manual) mark-as-read yet.

Okay cool. I guess the ā€œgoing from 25 to 23ā€ was probably a result of me paying too much attention while you were still changing how the counts are added up.

Edit- The ā€œThere are X new postsā€ message is still missing in action. Not the end of the world, just letting you know!

Thanks KevinWorkman, I didn’t even notice it was down… :persecutioncomplex:

  • Push-notification is back
  • Added mark-as-read (click the subject link)
  • Added mark-all-as-read
  • Added ā€˜My Mentions’ to header, with unread mention count

Just something small, whenever I middle click one of my mentions in the page the My Mentions link leads me to the browser just goes to that page in the current page instead of opening a new tab. I open nearly every in a new tab, it’s just a habit of mine so this gets to me. It’s not really a big deal though if fixing it would require lots of work! Not sure if anyone else noticed.

It’s quite fun. I’m often mentioned, even in ancient 2003! ;D

@Riven: I’d like to mention about my mentions. :slight_smile: I think they’re partly wrong because anybody hardly could know about my existence before I registered here in 2009.
This is the link from the previous post and the quote from the link.

That’s what you get for having a fairly common word as a moniker! :stuck_out_tongue:
Unfortunately I don’t think there is a trivial way to differentiate such ā€œmentions.ā€

There is already code that takes into account post count, last post and first post to filter out mentions, but I’ll have to rebuild the denormalized data for that.

As for notation: it will not play a role.

Slyth2727, the cause is a little javascript trickery, so it’s not trivial to solve.