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thenewgreen  ·  2529 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski idea: registering "mention" nicknames

Why?





f263181084fc3442ce  ·  2529 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh my goodness, this would be a must have feature. Nobody can ever get my name right... I blame my parents.

;)

user-inactivated  ·  2529 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Micro-optimization of conversations taking place.

johnnyFive  ·  2529 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Faster and easier to use?

OftenBen  ·  2529 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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

_refugee_  ·  2522 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  ·  2529 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  ·  2529 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.