My personal opinions on this: I'm not sure what the difference is between:
"@evan sure, i'll ask !tommie to fix it" and the currently used: "@evan sure, i'll ask @tommie to fix it" In both cases, surely it should be treated as a reply to both @tommie and @evan. Also seen frequently is "@person1 @person2 some message directed at both of them". I'm not sure what benefit is derived from making people use @ at the start of a message and ! elsewhere, other than adding the distinction of "I'm talking about you, not to you" ;) Not seeing @replies, I see that differently. Someone I'm following says "@jrandomhacker Oh, that's interesting", I might want to go and find out what it was and find someone interesting to follow in the process. If it wasn't interesting, maybe the person who said it should have used a not-yet-implemented direct message. Makes sense as an option though. @321321 sounds useful but isn't 321321 a valid, if silly, nickname? Perhaps that merits a different character. Cheers, Ciaran Tommie Podzemski wrote: > Hi there, > > Not sure if the general idea is to mimic Twitter as much as possible, > but i'd really like some extension on the @-sign features with some > further signs. Such as: > > --- > > ! - can be used in the middle of a sentence to hotlink other users on > the site. This is to make the replying a bit more clear. We just need to > ensure that it's not being used as a exclamation-point. Possible > variations are; ^ ~ + u: > > Examples: > "Having a beer with !tommie, cool dude" > "@evan sure, i'll ask !tommie to fix it" > > --- > > @ - only consider @username in the beginning of a sentence as a reply, > rather than each time a @ is used in the middle of a sentence. One thing > could actually be to reply to the ID rather than person, such as @321321 > to maintain complete threading, we could masquerade the ID with the > username that posted said ID. > > --- > > Maybe a bit out of context, but i'd really like a feature where i can > decide if i wish to see my friends replies or not. Evan is the perfect > example of this, while i want to follow his updates - i'm not > necessarily interested in messages like this, > > "@nigelj yes, just a bit! I think my caching code is working correctly." > > Since i never saw nigeljs initial message is this completely pointless > to me. > > One road could be that you'll always see replies where you're friends > with both users. In the example above i'd see evans reply if i was > friends with nigelj, otherwise not. > > --- > > Let's discuss this suggestions, i'll implement the code myself and > submit it if any of the suggestions are approved by this list (or evan > alone). > > Regards, > Tommie > > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev > _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
