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Mention @somebody. They're notified.
- ch0wn 16y agoGithub never ceases to amaze me. Despite all the features Github has, it still manages to maintain an incredibly light and intuitive UI. EDIT: s/seizes/ceases/
- DanI-S 16y agoEverything they do seems so obvious once they've done it. That's the telltale sign of great idea.
- citricsquid 16y agoThought you might like to know the phrase is "never ceases" not "never seizes": http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_saying_never_seizes_to_amaze_you_or_never_ceases_to_amaze_you http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_saying_never_seizes_to_amaz... (Not sure if it was a typo/brainfart/not-english-speaker but figured you might like to know)
- ch0wn 16y agoThank you, it's the third of your options. (;
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- thwarted 16y agoSometimes, I really wish the ~, rather than @, had gained popular traction for referring to users. @ already had meaning, and stuff to the right of the @ was the location of the stuff on the left. Now there are things on both sides of an @ that indicate specific identity.
- barista 16y agoAgree. In fact if it were a ~ then we could have a full email address after that thus unlocking the identity from using a single provider.
- gte910h 16y agoWhile it doesn't look great to the eye yet, I'm pretty sure @gte910h@twitter.com vs @gte910h@github.com would work to point out the user on the site.
- gte910h 16y ago~ means approximately in many places. I prefer the pronounceability of @ over ~
- barista 16y agoI wish other commenting systems would implement this feature.
- jedsmith 16y agoI like it! Too bad it'll probably be abused, and force people to turn it off. I have high hopes for the average Github user, but it is on the Internet.
- powdahound 16y agoAwesome! We've had support for this in HipChat rooms for a long time and I find myself using this syntax all over the place only to be disappointed when it doesn't actually notify people. Hopefully more apps will follow along.
- wanderr 16y agoWe use @mentions internally at my company. It helps us to filter/prioritize emails that we are @mentioned in. Definitely a great handy shortcut for getting someone's attention, I hope more services adopt it.
- ChuckMcM 16y agoI wonder if there will be unintended consequences if this gets really popular. There always seems to be that 'one engineer' who has a combination of good architectural taste, a lot of historical knowledge, and an ability to pull out the wheat from the chaff. Currently the thing that allows them to get anything done at all is that you physically have to go over and bother them if you would like to get their input, but if they start getting a stream of mentions perhaps it would simply get turned off. That being said, I'm all in favor of putting a user id or group id in a TODO(username) in comments so that whattodo(name)* can give me a list of things in the source base that could use my, or someone on my team's attention. [1] implementing the whattodo command is left as an exercise for the reader.
- nfriedly 16y agohttp://twittermentionmonitor.com http://twittermentionmonitor.com is a side project that I started to do this for tweets - whenever someone @mentions you in a tweet, the site forwards it to you as a direct message. Ignore the payment part and just click the "sign in with twitter" at the top - it's free right now because payment doesn't work yet ;)
- epynonymous 16y agothis is too sweet. but as the notified, can you choose to unsubscribe?
- uxp 16y agoYep, the blogpost linked here reveals the notification center[1], which gives you a bunch of options as to what notifications you want to receive. [1] https://github.com/account/notifications https://github.com/account/notifications
- pinko 16y agoMy only wish is that you could blacklist (or whitelist) people from whom you recieve notifications, rather than have to disable the feature entirely. Otherwise this may turn into an extremely effective way to spam high-value developers.