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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* 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.

We appreciate the support!
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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

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

It should be important to YOU.

See?

And it is, but when you have over 50 equally important products each with a number of feature requests, questions and potential bugs things still slip through the gaps =).

I don't know why you're determined to take offence to my suggestion and try to create a confrontation when I'm just trying to let you know the way to get the things you want done quicker/without being missed.

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Just fix it dude. Please. No more platitudes. I don't care about your system. Your system is inherently your problem, not mine.

Mine is, you left out a fundamental portion of this modification - covering the user who uses a underscore in his/her nick.

Feel free to take the advice or ignore it, but try to do it without the rude, passive aggressive posts =). Bear in mind this is a free mod, with free support.


Iain

[viper357]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Fix: Improved reliability of @mentions, specifically it should no longer mention users whose names happen to match email addresses

Hi guys, does this mean we no longer have to use the ; after the name?

[vijayninel]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Please don't misunderstand - I appreciate your offerings of free modifications and your efforts at free support.

Well actually, I am a paid customer of this product and the dragonbyte-tech.com forums the usual reply is that the bug is actually working as designed so its not actually a bug. You will also be told to put the bug as a "feature request" for future versions (if there are any).

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by viper357

Hi guys, does this mean we no longer have to use the ; after the name?

You haven't had to do that for some time, that's what caused the issues with the email addresses


Fillip

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by vijayninel

Well actually, I am a paid customer of this product and the dragonbyte-tech.com forums the usual reply is that the bug is actually working as designed so its not actually a bug. You will also be told to put the bug as a "feature request" for future versions (if there are any).

That's essentially the same reply at first here, to my original report, months ago.

I don't know why you're determined to take offence to my suggestion and try to create a confrontation when I'm just trying to let you know the way to get the things you want done quicker/without being missed.

Feel free to take the advice or ignore it, but try to do it without the rude, passive aggressive posts =). Bear in mind this is a free mod, with free support.

Nobody's offended, nobody's being passive-aggressive, nobody's been at all rude. Somebody just wants you to support the product. Just fix it dude. Please. No more platitudes. I don't care about your system. Your system is inherently your problem, not mine.

Mine is, you left out a fundamental portion of this modification - covering the user who uses a underscore in his/her nick.

One more time, here is the issue:

This modification does not work at all if the user who is tagged with it has a underscore in their username. It works with dashes and dots, but not underscores.

I would appreciate a update that fixes this.

I haven't been rude, just persistent. All I did was ask "please" then waited six months after being told it was my fault the Mod wasn't working. Read back in the thread.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by vijayninel

Well actually, I am a paid customer of this product and the dragonbyte-tech.com forums the usual reply is that the bug is actually working as designed so its not actually a bug. You will also be told to put the bug as a "feature request" for future versions (if there are any).

Obviously ensuring we're providing the best customer service is extremely important to us, so I wanted to check up on the service you received in this instance to make sure it lives up to our high expectations.

That being said, just went through the user tagging suggestions, feature requests and bug reports (open and closed) on DBTech and no one has ever reported the underscore issue there.

Is it possible you could send me a link to the thread on the forums you made where you reported this? From what I can see it doesn't exist. Hopefully this is just an error somewhere and someone isn't trying to invent stories to harm our reputation.


Iain

[vijayninel]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Is it possible you could send me a link to the thread on the forums you made where you reported this? From what I can see it doesn't exist. Hopefully this is just an error somewhere and someone isn't trying to invent stories to harm our reputation.

I am neither inventing stories nor have I claimed that I reported the issue that Max Taxable is having. I had some entirely different problems like in this thread where I reported that guests were able to tag members in the vB3 version (not in the vB4 version).

I actually had to start tagging members in other forums in order to prove my point before my problem which was marked as "not a bug" was accepted as a bug and the problem was resolved.

My other problem about me getting notifications of posts when I quote others was not resolved and I have scarce hope that it will be resolved before our one year subscription updates expires. This is because dragonbyte-techs current focus seems to be on making new mods rather than improving existing ones.

Now me getting notifications when I quoted someone is a bug for me. It's like getting a sms after you have called X saying that you have called X. It wastes time and is annoying. However this is working as expected for you, and hence is not a bug. So we have to see if this feature is ever removed.

That said this mod has been rather useful for us and does increase forum activity. Also the major issues were resolved by Belazor and his team.

[MikeJDance]

Just brought the Pro, how do you HASH stuff?

[DragonByte Tech]

Please post Pro support questions in our Pro support forums


Fillip

[Concha]

When a user creates a message and immediately mentioned with @ to other user, this does not get the notification.

Example:

@username Hi, how are you?

This message does not get the notification.

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