As per the title.
I just tried taging someone for the first time and I didn’t get the magic blue link. I assume they don’t get notified unless it turns blue. I’m on the mobile site if that makes a difference. I’ve noticed a few other peoples comments with the same issue.
Comment for example. https://aussie.zone/comment/297324
13 Comments
lodion@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 3y
Pretty sure you need to put the full
@lodion@aussie.zone, which should give you a popup to select the one you want, when you select one it should populate this code for you:[@lodion@aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/u/lodion)giving a final result of @lodion@aussie.zoneZagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 3y
Testing @billstickers@aussie.zone.
billstickers@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
Works and pops up in my notifications even though you didn’t reply directly to me. I do like this vs Reddit.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
But Reddit does the same thing?
billstickers@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
The notification part only works if the mentioned users has reddit premium. Otherwise just works as a link to their account for everyone else.(Edit, thanks @Zagorath for the correction.)I've only ever seen people use the reddit implementation to talk about particular users (mods/spez notorious members of the sub, etc), or occasionally to call in a celebrity to notify that a thread is about them or that they should weigh in.
I like the way people are using them here, i.e more twitter/mastodon like. Where they use them to include others (op, reply comments parent user, etc) to include more people in the conversation.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
I'm sorry but this is simply not true. Any /u/mention on Reddit will provide the user mentioned a notification, unless the comment mentions more than three users (to avoid easy spam).
billstickers@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
Thanks for letting me know. It definitely used to be "Gold" only. . Didn't know they gave it to everyone. Looks like it went global around 2015 but the blog post is gone. My reddit account is about twice that old. Either way not a commonly used feature in general threads.
billstickers@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
@lodion@aussie.zone Thanks. ahh don’t I feel silly. I copy and pasted the names so didn’t trigger the pop up.