NinjaForge/Ninjaboard — Issue #23: Highlight your nickname in others' posts
Author: stipsan
Created: 2011-12-29 16:28:34+00:00
State: open

Reported by @ccondrup:

If user "john" decides to address parts of his post directly to user "bill" he will naturally include bill's nickname, for instance: @bill I agree! or bill: I agree!

This should be highlighted to bill in some way when he logs into the forums and when he is reading the post where he was adressed. I feel this is one of those little big details which makes for an extra good user experience.

I think Facebook does this very well, by both helping users tag other users (dropdown list when writing @ or start of a nick) and not to mention the notification you see when someone else has mentioned you somewhere. If you feel such tagging is overkill, this feature could be as simple as wrapping a span class=highlight around each instance of a users nick in posts from other users (except for when the nick is mentioned as quote author), but it would be nice if it was linked to users profile as well.