New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

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

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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

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by sticky

You are absolutely correct. However it also is not all that fair to provide this mod working one way for free and then change it to force users into an upgrade. They are within their rights to do it, and I'm within my rights to point it out.

It's a nice mod, I'm glad it exists.

While it may not seem fair to change features in the mod, it is up to the discretion of the Developer of the mod to include or exclude any feature he wishes.

Yes you are well within your rights to point out that you would like to see something changed, but calling it extortion is a little extreme.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by sticky

Yes, because a feature that was turned off previously is now left on purposely in order to force you into a purchase so you can turn it off.

This is incorrect, it has never been a feature of the Lite version to be able to turn off notifications.


Fillip

[sticky]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

This is incorrect, it has never been a feature of the Lite version to be able to turn off notifications.


Fillip

I thought I read in the thread earlier that the post quote notification was not enabled originally and was added later?

Anyway, doesn't matter, I am considering purchasing. However, there is a large and annoying bug. When I try to type in an e-mail address with the @ symbol if I have a user who has a name similar to the e-mail domain it will replace it with their profile instead of allowing the e-mail address.

How do I fix that and why does that happpen?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by sticky

I thought I read in the thread earlier that the post quote notification was not enabled originally and was added later?

Adding a feature is not the same as removing the option of turning off a specific part of a feature

Quote notifications were indeed added in v2.0, but before that the feature plain did not exist, it was not disabled in any way

Originally Posted by sticky

Anyway, doesn't matter, I am considering purchasing. However, there is a large and annoying bug. When I try to type in an e-mail address with the @ symbol if I have a user who has a name similar to the e-mail domain it will replace it with their profile instead of allowing the e-mail address.

How do I fix that and why does that happpen?

You can fix that by turning on the requirement for the ; delimiter to the end of mentions. It happens because it's quite difficult to accurately determine whether the @mention is a valid mention or whether it's a part of an email address.


Fillip

[sticky]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Adding a feature is not the same as removing the option of turning off a specific part of a feature

Quote notifications were indeed added in v2.0, but before that the feature plain did not exist, it was not disabled in any way

I'll just leave this alone.

You can fix that by turning on the requirement for the ; delimiter to the end of mentions. It happens because it's quite difficult to accurately determine whether the @mention is a valid mention or whether it's a part of an email address.

I see, that is a solution. I like how clean the @username looks but seems there is no way around it. Thank you.

[DragonByte Tech]

Just to clarify; The end-result will still be as clean as @username, it's just actually performing the mention that requires the delimiter, to accurately tell the script when we start and finish a username


Fillip

[Jokermixer]

very cool! Istalled!

[Wordplay]

I am very interested in using this, but on my site, this would be even more useful if it were possible to tag usernames as well as blogtitles and link to blog titles.

maybe have
@username = grab username and link it to a profile
#blog title = grab blog title and post a link to the blog

that would be fantastic.

would the coder be interested in re-coding this for me?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Wordplay

I am very interested in using this, but on my site, this would be even more useful if it were possible to tag usernames as well as blogtitles and link to blog titles.

maybe have
@username = grab username and link it to a profile
#blog title = grab blog title and post a link to the blog

that would be fantastic.

would the coder be interested in re-coding this for me?

Unfortunately we do not have time to undergo such a task, plus the fact that the # is already taken up by a feature in this modification


Fillip

[Wordplay]

i ment as a paid job of course.

let me know if you do get some free time to work on this some time in the near future.