diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2516: mentioning user not in post aspect breaks
Author: thehodapp
Created: 2011-12-12 10:37:23+00:00
State: open

For example say I have 2 aspects, Friends and Others, and I have a contact named Danny ONLY in the Others aspect. I mention Danny in a post, but I only post within the Friends aspect.

The current behavior I have observed is that Danny will see the mention. He also receives a notification of the mention. However, if he tries to comment on the post, nothing happens; or if he tries to go to the permalink, we get a 500 error.

Is there an official position on what this situation should result in? Perhaps if someone is mentioned, they get inclusion into the post along with the other aspects the post was in? Or perhaps this situation should not even be allowed.

Either way it is a fairly import issue and needs a fix soon.