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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  2508 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski idea: registering "mention" nicknames

I'm not sure I see the case for that. The difference between @johnnyFive and @j5 is 8 keystrokes.





_refugee_  ·  2501 days ago  ·  link  ·  

alt characters and spellings - that's where i see the most potential value - i have had to re-send messages multiple times because i kept fucking a name up, either trying to recall it from memory and forgetting a double character or number in place of an alpha, or etc etc etc.

are username cap sensitive because if so, that's the best reason i've heard for this idea yet

also that would be annoying af if so and i believe that we are smarter/better than that

johnnyFive  ·  2508 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That doesn't negate what I said. Really the question is more how hard it would be to implement versus the ease for the users.

Another possibility would be to perhaps allow autocomplete once you start typing @....?

OftenBen  ·  2508 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Another possibility would be to perhaps allow autocomplete once you start typing @....?

This would be better, but I'm not sure how code/processing power intensive this would be for something like hubski. I am a coding cretin, only now embarking upon my second ever programming project.