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

[krustyx]

Can we hide the "User Tag List" From the top? And only use the @user in threads?

Thanks

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by krustyx

Can we hide the "User Tag List" From the top?

Locate the product's plugin hooked at "showthread_complete" and disable it.

[X-or]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

More or less, yeah. There's a dedicated page you land on when you click on a hash tag that shows all posts that used this hash tag.


Fillip

I checked your test forum and it doesn't work as I expected.

Normally you would just include "#word" in your post, and users who subscribed to that hashtag would receive a notification. This is what I consider a proper #hashtag system.

[IggyP]

Originally Posted by X-or

I checked your test forum and it doesn't work as I expected.

Normally you would just include "#word" in your post, and users who subscribed to that hashtag would receive a notification. This is what I consider a proper #hashtag system.

+1 to that....still having the editing post issue too btw

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by X-or

Normally you would just include "#word" in your post, and users who subscribed to that hashtag would receive a notification. This is what I consider a proper #hashtag system.

I have pro version of mod and it theoretically work that way, but I also have vBNotifications, given link doesn't work (bug with link forming). I reported bug, but it is still unresolved. I also suggested some very useful features for hashtags, but they still aren't implemented (you can check them on DBTech's site).

So, maybe for someone without vBNotifications (I have pro version, that is even sadder fact that pro version doesn't work, I mean, when you pay, you expect it has more chance to work) it will work as expected. I don't know...

[IggyP]

besides the lack of notification, i thought it was also odd there is no list of site wide hashtags anywhere...latest hashtags, popular hashtags.....nothing....

so basically it feels hollow and if you do not subscribe to a hashtag when u first read it then think of it later, it can be difficult to find again....its alot of room to improve, i wouldnt know where to even start tho

[MarkFL]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why would a product for user tagging be criticized for not performing the unrelated task of hashtags?

I recently tested this product so that I could add support for it to one of my products, and I found it does exactly what it's supposed to do. Hashtags ARE NOT part of the advertised features.

[IggyP]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why would a product for user tagging be criticized for not performing the unrelated task of hashtags?

I recently tested this product so that I could add support for it to one of my products, and I found it does exactly what it's supposed to do. Hashtags ARE NOT part of the advertised features.

it is pretty easy to see that this is in fact not true......if you look...
https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/stor...-user-tagging/
in fact it is perhaps the main draw for the paid version at all....and its a critic because we all paid 80$ for it but once implementing you see what the issues are....

[MarkFL]

Yeah, I didn't see that was part of the Pro version...carry on!

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by IggyP

besides the lack of notification, i thought it was also odd there is no list of site wide hashtags anywhere...latest hashtags, popular hashtags.....nothing....

so basically it feels hollow and if you do not subscribe to a hashtag when u first read it then think of it later, it can be difficult to find again....its alot of room to improve, i wouldnt know where to even start tho

I agree, I added FR for these functions.

I think that they could make it in very useful additional level of data integration via hashtags, but at the moment, it is only one feature that doesn't work as it should.

I see it only as a way to support them, by buying their pro version, without really getting real value. But I hoped I would also get some real value.