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I was expecting something like @[email protected], but I donโ€™t think that works. At least for me it's only recognised as an email address. lemm.ee/u/fer0n maybe? Does that notify the user?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Funnily enough @[email protected] does seem to work in the Liftoff app, but I guess there maybe isn't a standard yet. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That actually showed up in my mentions, I guess I just canโ€™t mention myself. Thanks :)

[โ€“] astraeus 6 points 1 year ago

Shows up as a link on mlem, but it takes me to Mail ๐Ÿฅน

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've just tried it, it works in Jerboa too

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is an area of very much needed improvement.

For users, you should use the completion popup. When you type an @ followed by a name it will suggest users matching that, and if you click on one it will fill out a mention with the link to their origin page.
Give it a shot, try mentioning me in a reply!


The issue with this is the link isn't portable, meaning it may get you out of your home instance. The best way to link any user or community is to do /u/[email protected] (for users; /c/ for communities) instead of https://origininstance.tld/u/name. That way the link is relative (so no issue of moving away from your home) and it's fully qualified (so no issue with name clashes between instances).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I see it now. Maybe an ad blocker got in the way because thatโ€™s the first thing I tried. Can you try /u/[email protected]? Iโ€˜d like to see if that shows up in my mentions

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

/u/[email protected]

It rendered as a link for me, because I'm on 0.18.1 already (RC). Mobile apps might not support it yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its actually trough a pop-up that I've only seen working on the instance website itself (idk how it is usually called) It creates a thing that that looks like this on the final message: @[email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, that also shows up in mine. I think thatโ€™s simply a markdown link to my profile "[@[email protected]]" directly followed by "(https://lemm.ee/u/fer0n)": @[email protected]

[โ€“] astraeus 3 points 1 year ago

This works, but that should definitely be built-in regardless of client.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think auto linking is implemented for users like it is for communities. Compare @[email protected] with [email protected].

In the notifications page at /inbox there's a tab for Mentions but I don't know what is considered a mention given there are many different ways to link to a user page.

edited to add: I see I have some Mentions that include my full username "@[email protected]" without linking to the user page, so it is probably based on finding the username format as a substring.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this show up in your mentions? [email protected] (markdown link with the actual website link behind it). @[email protected] shows up in mine even though itโ€™s not highlighted or clickable for me

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That showed up to me in Replies but not in Mentions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I forgot the @. This should show up: @[email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Itโ€™s tappable, but it doesnโ€™t show up in mentions. This does however, even though itโ€™s not tappable: @[email protected]

So for now the correct answer seems to be that with the actual link combined

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or [email protected] although that's for communities isn't it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] here is what the tag looks like when replying on Liftoff. Screenshot of the tag text

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
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