Arghhh! Okay. I'll get on it :confused:

Is this a current remake of Chen's old bbusername thing?

Now also works in the archive...

How about notification emails for the forum/thread titles and subject? ;)

Sorry I didn't include that in my earlier post. I just remembered it. ;)

(you just want to make him work, don't you?) ;) :D


Any chance that the ability to restrict this to specific forums can be added? (I know, I asked already... just being a pushy-pete :)

Now works in outgoing emails

I can do the forum/usergroup permission thing, but I'll wait to hear from the original author of this plugin.

This looks like a pretty decent and useful addition.
I'd like to caution my friends here that it can also cause you some trouble. If you've promised the users on your site even a wee bit of privacy and they see their name in someone's post.. they could wonder how, that person, knew who they were. Many webmasters won't stop at the "You" thing and go for things like, "address, email, etc... " and if those things have been private in the past... whoosh! - It could get ugly.

I remember the fights that used to start back in the old BBS days when someone would read a post that said something like , "BILL has a BIG NOSE".. Everyone who read that, didn't understand what was happening and many of them took offense and began blasting back at the original poster.. Great for a Flame board, but lots of webmasters don't allow flaming on their site...

So, now where's that Install switch again... ? Just tossing in a caution

Just installed it and hope to create mass confusion. The email addition is a nice touch.

Edward S - good point about possible abuse. To counteract this I did a find and replace on 'you' in Hambil's XML page and replaced it with a long nonsensical word so no-one else can use it except me.

Funny thing, Hambil! I installed your last version of the product, but instead of showing up the reader's username, it allways shows the writer's name ... Any Idea about that?
Great addition, though ;)

Did you look at it through another users account, or your own?

*lol* Of course I took another account! I may not be a coder, but I have a brain, too ;-)

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I only found the version of this hack that worked for vB 3. Thanks for this. Gonna install it soon enough! :)

is there a way to change it from [you] to /you ? i prefere /You

works on 3.6

I have been looking for this exact thing....

THANKS! I like to keep it personal on my forum... Like I am actually talking to the user themself. This is perfect!

one request....can you get it to work with vbshout or is that impossible?

Great hack. I've replaced the 'username' field with my 'real name' userfield, so it displays the user's real name instead of their username.

I'm testing it out a little now. Thanks for great hack!

*clicks install*

EDIT: It works great. I've added the userfield conditional to the plugin, so that if a member has no 'real name' listed in the respective userfield, it displays the 'username', so you'll never get a blank.

too bad that when the [you] is quoted that the readers see the person's name that did the quoting...

i have the product by Hambil installed on 3.6.0 beta 3 and so far it works in threads titles but haven't really tried it anywhere else.

actually, I''m seeing the exact opposite. when you are quoting someone, it shows the actual [ you ] code, but once they post it, it works just like it does normally, even in the quoted text..

We had an absolute blast with this on my board - I didn't tell anyone about it, just put it into effect. It took the first person 40+ posts to get it, and the last person to get it was after post #170 or so - my fiance thought I turned the whole board against her, it almost wrecked our relationship. Flippin awesome!!!! I can't say Ive had this much fun with anything since I discovered vaseline at age..errr... sorry bout that, nevermind.

is there any way to make it so that a user can sign up with the [you] code in their name, and have it "trick" people even if they don't post? if so, where would that need to be implimented?

How do you get it to work in the title of a thread?