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Username search?

Posted by Kuromantis
Tags: suggestions, features, search, names.user

Nearly every time most of us want to mention someone, we need to find a post they commented in or posted, which will get increasingly harder over time, and especially so for less active users.

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      cfabbro
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      If you don't know how to spell a username exactly @ mentions don't really work... which is why you often have to go hunting for something the user posted or a comment they made. And I think that's...

      If you don't know how to spell a username exactly @ mentions don't really work... which is why you often have to go hunting for something the user posted or a comment they made. And I think that's what @Kuromantis was getting at. This is why I'm personally in favor of an auto-complete for the @ feature, similar to how Reddit Enhancement Suite does it when you start typing /u/ or /r/.

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          cfabbro
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          p.s. Maybe that (the autocomplete feature) is something you could consider adding to Tildes ReExtended? I could make a feature request issue for it, if you want. :P

          p.s. Maybe that (the autocomplete feature) is something you could consider adding to Tildes ReExtended? I could make a feature request issue for it, if you want. :P

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