@user notation

[stwc]

I've been noticing a lot of people on the BP forum are using the @useranme notation (most recently popularized by Twitter) here in the forums. It doesn't actually do anything, of course, but I was thinking it would be very cool if it actually did.

What I'm thinking is that if someone actually used the notation @username somewhere on the site (@stwc to me, for example), a notification would be fired off (appearing on the buddybar) to that user (ie me, in this case), and clicking on the notification would take the user to the item in question, whether it's a wire comment or a forum thread or [anywhere else]. I think it would really help pull together the kind of... loosely-coupled... way that various communication channels on a BP install work. It could also appear as a stream in the user's messages area... it wouldn't of course replace anything currently in place, but it would leverage the kind of emergent standard people seem to automatically use, and might spur people on to deeper involvement in a site and with each other.

This might be something better implemented in a plugin than in core, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

(added to trac per suggestion from Jeff Sayre here: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/user-notation-a-feature-suggestion)

[apeatling]

This would be great as a plugin by checking content using the appropriate filters then linking the @ username back to a profile page.

[DJPaul]

In 1.2.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Moving closed ticket out of Future Release.