Re: notifications and ability to mention someone in a post
Well there are a few things that occur to me with this idea.
Firstly, is the programming question, since the board would essentially have to track when usernames have been referd to in posts and mentions, probably using the at sign or some custom bb code , so that for example if someone was talking about the Dark room game, I wouldn't get a bunch of mentions by mistake .
That sort of intelligent tracking could be a task to add I think, since while I've seen similar things used on blogs and such they don't tend to occur on forums, and even with things like blogs the intelligent tagging only tends to tag specific interest categories not usernames referd to.
then there is a problem of clutter. One of the things which i find problematic on so many blogs and forums these days is that the system of tags and references is sooooo over board you have
to read through an entire page of them just to get to the bloody post. Similarly, if I had a huge bunch of notifications at the top of the board display or after every post there was a list of who was referd to when, i suspect I would find myself just skipping the system as extra clutter.
This is one major difference in screen reader friendly presentation and presentation to a sighted user, since it seems for a lot of sighted users the emphasis interface wise is to chuck as much at the screen as possible and let people scan, where as when using a screen reader you want to get to the information asap.
So, the system would need to be highly none intrusive.
Since as I said, the system would need to be triggered specifically by users when they want someone notified so that the intelligent user tracking didn't pull out a bunch of false positives, people would also need to remember when to use notifications correctly, since manifestly if your dealing in a topic whe
re your having an ongoing conversation with someone, notifications would be a little pointless.
So, while I'm not against the idea I think it'd need to be considered carefully to make sure it did what was desired, I'm also not sure, if it takes custom programming whether or not something like this should be a priority over say adding a ratings system or ability to add reviews gamefaqs style to the db or having the ability to let people know when they get private messages.
So, a potentially interesting idea, but one which would need handling with care, and possibly a degree of setup too.
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