jcs/lobsters — pull request #17 by rjsamson (2012-09-10 20:05:16+00:00)
Title: Add GitHub style '@' mentions to comments.

Since better conversation and comments seems to have been one of the main goals of Lobsters I thought GitHub style '@' mentions might be handy in the comments. This would allow multiple users to receive notifications of a reply and also provide some deeper context to conversations.

This commit adds a link to the profile of valid usernames preceded by an '@', and notifies the mentioned user according to their preferences. Currently, the profile link looks like this in a comment:
![screenshot1](http://i.imgur.com/UiFK5.png)
But it may or may not make sense to remove the '@' in the final comment.

This commit also adds notification preferences for mentions like so:
![screenshot2](http://i.imgur.com/RFAQa.png)

If [pull request 16](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/pull/16) gets merged I can add a commit that would add mentions to the visual alert count as well.