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

  • Lodion 🇦🇺MA
    4·
    1 year ago

    Pretty sure you need to put the full @lodion@aussie.zone, which should give you a popup to select the one you want, when you select one it should populate this code for you: [@lodion@aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/u/lodion) giving a final result of @[email protected]

      • Bill StickersOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        Works and pops up in my notifications even though you didn’t reply directly to me. I do like this vs Reddit.

        • ZagorathEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I do like this vs Reddit.

          But Reddit does the same thing?

          • Bill StickersOPEnglish
            1·
            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
              1·
              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
                1·
                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.