Tag people in Chat

oldyew 2017-04-14 14:06:38 UTC #1

It would be good to have possibility to tag anybody in chat.
And then, tagged person will receive notification that he/she tagged.

crocrobot 2017-04-14 14:08:52 UTC #2

Using the exact username will highlight that line of text for the user and if they have browser notifications enabled they will get a notification.

oldyew 2017-04-14 14:16:32 UTC #3

thank you! will try

pbgarden 2017-04-14 15:29:46 UTC #4

It's worth noting that tab-completion exists for this. if you were the only one in chat whose name started with old, for instance, I could type 'old' and press tab, and it would auto-complete the rest.

oldyew 2017-04-18 16:11:57 UTC #5

i tried to tag person in chat without any success
what do i wrong?

pbgarden 2017-04-18 16:17:32 UTC #6

Maybe tell us what you did, and we can see if we can find where you went wrong?

oldyew 2017-04-18 19:31:03 UTC #7

As you advised I wrote user name in our group chat but he didn't receive any notification that he was tagged.

pbgarden 2017-04-19 05:39:30 UTC #8

They don't get notifications - that message just appears in red to them in the chat. If they weren't looking at chat they won't see it.

One caveat of note, if you put characters after the name (e.g. "pbgarden:" instead of "pbgarden") it will also break this functionality.

oldyew 2017-04-19 15:36:13 UTC #9

Ok, i see
my initial point was to notify user that is not looking at chat...

pbgarden 2017-04-19 16:07:38 UTC #10

Nope, not how chat works. For that, just message them directly. =]

crocrobot 2017-04-19 16:09:07 UTC #11

You can allow notifications on browsers that support them. I get a notification from chrome whenever my username is mentioned in a channel.

_KoBa 2017-04-19 18:00:44 UTC #12

Only if you are online and you have the chat open in some tab, you don't get if you are not in the chatroom at that time

Also hilights won't work if you have some weird unicode crap on your username.