Pinging

[Lonestar]

Dear mods

Is it me getting like too old to type on a computer, or has the pinging function been disabled?

Thanks in advance helping my old fart self

Paul

[Lowgear]

Hopefully I can help, but I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to.

[GoMachV]

I think he means that....

@lowgear

doesnt tag you anymore

[Lowgear]

That's what I thought but wasn't sure as it's been gone for over a year now.

It was a nice feature but had several problems that the creator wasn't interested in fixing. Then after the next board upgrade it was no longer compatible anyway so it was dropped. I installed the 'Thanks' system in its place. Here's the post for reference: https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?p=491485#p491485

It was recently made compatible with the latest board version again but I see it still has some issues. I don't know if it's worth installing this time around due to the fact. Also if I have to remove it again, there will be a lot of posts with @username in them that no longer do anything.

[Lonestar]

Thanks for the help guys

Somehow I hadn't noticed it had disappeared quite a while ago already

I'm a bit senile but at least I'm not totally crazy

Thanks!

Paul

[Lowgear]

@Lonestar

Ah what the heck. I reinstalled it again as I know it was a popular feature. I had to tweak it a bit to make it work better but nevertheless it's back. All member groups can use it besides Regular Members.

[Lonestar]

@ Lonestar

Ah what the heck. I reinstalled it again as I know it was a popular feature. I had to tweak it a bit to make it work better but nevertheless it's back. All member groups can use it besides Regular Members.

Haaaa cool - thanks @lowgear

edit - mmmmhhh am I missing something? No link, no special font, no contextual menu... what am I doing wrong?

[Lowgear]

You're welcome.

You just have to make sure the username is between the mention tags like so:

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[mention]username[/mention]

When you type the @ symbol and start typing the username, select the name from the list and it automatically wraps it in the tags.