@ notifications

I didn't receive a notification from this @ mention (HERE).

I suspect it's because there's a BBCode tag between the @ and my name. I've noticed people often bold or colour usernames in posts, so it might be something that happens again. Should we have @ mentions ignore BBCode tags to avoid this?

Hm, I wouldn't expect that tag to work in the first place. Out of interest, does this one work? @Chalrytharendir

Yep that one works. So if the tag includes the @, it's okay, but if the tag is between the @ and the name it's not.

Yea, if it's an easy fix, I wouldn't see the issue (unless a user picks the name [b]owlofspinach 😄)

But if it's more complex, I wouldn't bother too much with it, probably. If you hadn't linked an instance of it occurring, I wouldn't have believed this case to ever come up. And it's from a newer member, so maybe they don't know about the @ system yet 🤔

It's kinda cool that these are the sorts of edge cases we're seeing though, right? It's like first world problems.

Yeah - I don't think it'll be especially easy.

I was about to make a joke about how tagging Chal was difficult because of the spelling of that name and that we should fix that. But then I realized, we already did, at least in games.

I would not expect it to work if there is anything between the @ and the name. It would not work on twitter (who I hold responsible for this @ syntax) either.

Today, the notification popped up on the homepage for @bowlofspinach tagging me in this post on April 18.

For a while now I've been getting delayed tag notifications but I keep forgetting to document it. Typically the notification on the homepage doesn't appear til days later, long after I read the post (as I understand it, reading the post should clear the notification).

It was probably not today but yesterday or the day before when I edited the post to change the title to closed.

Editing a tagging post retags

No, it doesn't. Only if you click on the notification or press clear

They shouldn't be delayed, but they might appear later if the post is edited to add your name.

Reading a post doesn't clear the @. Clicking the @ (or clicking clear to clear all) clears them.

I think it might be time to have reading a post clear the @ though. It was suggested right at the start, but I wanted to see how people used them before making a decision.

Please!

Are they not just hidden behind the top red bar? Or scrolled off the top of the screen?

Whenever I refresh GP it bounces slightly upwards as it populates things and the scrollbar changes size. That section is regularly off the screen.

The potential issue with clearing on 'read' is the same as with marking a thread as 'read'. Loading the page makes it think you have read things, apparently that is not always the case?

I still say: clear them when the page they are on is marked as read (or loaded).

For me, every single one of them has been seen and read by the time I look at the font page and see the notification. Since the ability to clear them all was added, it does not really bother me, I just habitually clear them all each time they appear... which does make them a little pointless.

The clearing (non?)issue doesn't really bother me but the delay does. Although, as pointed out, that may just be from a post getting edited. Will play closer attention to edit history if/when it happens again.

FWIW I'm with vague on the clearing mechanism.

Thanks!

@Jabes.plays.RPG does this notification appear right away?

And, I have wondered if we should not have outgoing @notifications coloured/styled differently so we can know we got them right. Knowing that the dots work, or how formatting tags apply would help, especially in previews.

Yep.