As per the title.

I just tried taging someone for the first time and I didn’t get the magic blue link. I assume they don’t get notified unless it turns blue. I’m on the mobile site if that makes a difference. I’ve noticed a few other peoples comments with the same issue.

Comment for example. https://aussie.zone/comment/297324

  • Bill StickersOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The notification part only works if the mentioned users has reddit premium. Otherwise just works as a link to their account for everyone else. (Edit, thanks @Zagorath for the correction.)

    I’ve only ever seen people use the reddit implementation to talk about particular users (mods/spez notorious members of the sub, etc), or occasionally to call in a celebrity to notify that a thread is about them or that they should weigh in.

    I like the way people are using them here, i.e more twitter/mastodon like. Where they use them to include others (op, reply comments parent user, etc) to include more people in the conversation.

    • ZagorathEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The notification part only works if the mentioned users has reddit premium. Otherwise just works as a link to their account for everyone else.

      I’m sorry but this is simply not true. Any /u/mention on Reddit will provide the user mentioned a notification, unless the comment mentions more than three users (to avoid easy spam).

      • Bill StickersOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for letting me know. It definitely used to be “Gold” only. . Didn’t know they gave it to everyone. Looks like it went global around 2015 but the blog post is gone. My reddit account is about twice that old. Either way not a commonly used feature in general threads.