New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB3)

Advanced @User Tagging Mod: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.
This version introduces several major new features that users have requested, and some others we were unable to fit in v1.0.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Translations available @ [url="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations[/URL]
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Max Taxable]

There does appear to be a small bug in this - it doesn't work if a user has a underscore in his/her username.

[DragonByte Tech]

Have you tried turning on the ; delimiter requirement?

Fillip

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Have you tried turning on the ; delimiter requirement?


Fillip

Should that be necessary? This will make the Mod completely unused, if users have to remember to add semicolon after, they simply won't do so.

It works fine for users with spaces and dashes and dots in their username, but not underscores. This makes it look alot more like a oversight rather than a settings issue.

[DragonByte Tech]

It will help me track down exactly what's causing it, though.

That being said, not using semicolons produces other issues like tagging email addresses and sometimes tagging the wrong username if a shorter version of the same one exists.

For instance, a member called gmail will get mentioned if herpderp@gmail.com is used in a post.

Also, a member called Mel will get mentioned if someone is trying to use @Melody in a post.

These issues are impossible to overcome without using the semicolon.

If you wonder what makes the semicolon special; that character is the only one that cannot exist in a username, because vBulletin itself uses it as a separator.


Fillip

[Max Taxable]

I haven't had any problems with email addresses winding up tagged, since none of those has matched a username yet. Same thing with mistaken username tags, hasn't happened. I am NOT going to be using the ; delimiter.

Whatever code that recognizes spaces, dashes and dots also needs to recognize underscores, is all.

And it's only a minor problem, but one I figured you would be interested in knowing about.

[logicSix]

works well so far.

[^SuiCyde^]

This mod is awesome.

have a quick question about this, is there a way to stop the "Quote Alerts" to yourself if you quote somebody?

[SamirDarji]

Interesting mod. Anyone figure out the vbadvanced conflict? I've searched their forum and no one has mentioned it there.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

It will help me track down exactly what's causing it, though.

That being said, not using semicolons produces other issues like tagging email addresses and sometimes tagging the wrong username if a shorter version of the same one exists.

For instance, a member called gmail will get mentioned if herpderp@gmail.com is used in a post.

Also, a member called Mel will get mentioned if someone is trying to use @Melody in a post.

These issues are impossible to overcome without using the semicolon.

That is not related to the problem this has. This Mod does not work at all if the username has a underscore in it. This is a oversight on your part. Please fix it.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by ^SuiCyde^

This mod is awesome.

have a quick question about this, is there a way to stop the "Quote Alerts" to yourself if you quote somebody?

Unfortunately not, as that would involve stripping quote tags first, which may have undesired effects in some cases


Fillip