We now have a unified @mention feature in our editor! You can use it to add links to posts, tags, and users. Thanks so much to @Vlad Sitalo â both for the GitHub PR introducing this feature, and for time and again making useful improvements to our open source codebase. đ
I tried to click âget notifiedâ on this comment but Iâm not sure if it did anything, so I will have to come up with something useful to contribute to make sure :P
I wish we had markdown syntax for footnotes, as well. As-is it often feels like the markdown editor is a second-class citizen.
Ah sorry, I donât think thereâs any additions on the markdown side.
As-is it often feels like the markdown editor is a second-class citizen.
Yeah I think this is true in some sense. CKEditor does get more attention in our dev work. Partly thatâs because itâs the default, and is used much more often (I ran a quick query to sense check this, and it looks like about 1â9 of things written on the Forum in 2024 are in markdown, 7â9 are using CKEditor, and 1â9 are other[1]). I donât think this tells the whole story though, so Iâm open to pitches for us to enhance the markdown editor. :) Though note that we have significantly less engineering capacity now.
Bug report (although this could very well be me being incompetent!):
The new @mention interface doesnât appear to take usersâ karma into account when deciding which users to surface. This has the effect of showing me a bunch of users with 0 karma, none of whom are the user Iâm trying to tag.[1] (I think the old interface showed higher-karma users higher up?)
More importantly, Iâm still shown the wrong users even when I type in the full username of the person Iâm trying to tagâin this case, Jason. [Edit: Iâve tried @ing some other users, now, and Iâve found that most of the time there isnât this problem. It looks like the problem occurs for users with a single word username thatâs a common(-ish) name, e.g., Jason, geoffrey, Joseph.] And there doesnât appear to be a way to âscroll downâ to find the right user [when there is this problem],[2] which means that Iâm unable to tag them.
(Sorry that this is a pretty critical comment. I appreciate the work you do :) )
Pressing my keyboardâs down arrow lets me âmove downâ the list thatâs shown in the interface, but it loops back to the top after the tenth optionâuser âJABâ, in the example aboveârather than letting me go âfurther downâ to find the right user.
Mini EA Forum Update
We now have a unified @mention feature in our editor! You can use it to add links to posts, tags, and users. Thanks so much to @Vlad Sitalo â both for the GitHub PR introducing this feature, and for time and again making useful improvements to our open source codebase. đ
This is amazing. I expect this to noticably increase the number of links included in articles.
Nice! Is there an associated Markdown syntax I can use that will trigger the same functionality?
I tried to click âget notifiedâ on this comment but Iâm not sure if it did anything, so I will have to come up with something useful to contribute to make sure :P
I wish we had markdown syntax for footnotes, as well. As-is it often feels like the markdown editor is a second-class citizen.
Markdown footnotes work, theyâre just different to the first-class ones. This post was fully Markdown (and I couldnât have done it without it!)
oh! uhh, how?
Just the normal markdown syntax:
Hereâs a simple footnote[1].
This is the first footnote.
Thanks! (I slightly object to âthe normal markdown syntaxâ, since based on my quick reading neither John Gruberâs original markdown spec nor the latest CommonMark spec nor GitHub Flavoured Markdown have footnotes)
Ah sorry, I donât think thereâs any additions on the markdown side.
Yeah I think this is true in some sense. CKEditor does get more attention in our dev work. Partly thatâs because itâs the default, and is used much more often (I ran a quick query to sense check this, and it looks like about 1â9 of things written on the Forum in 2024 are in markdown, 7â9 are using CKEditor, and 1â9 are other[1]). I donât think this tells the whole story though, so Iâm open to pitches for us to enhance the markdown editor. :) Though note that we have significantly less engineering capacity now.
Mostly admin-specific or legacy things
Bug report (although this could very well be me being incompetent!):
The new @mention interface doesnât appear to take usersâ karma into account when deciding which users to surface. This has the effect of showing me a bunch of users with 0 karma, none of whom are the user Iâm trying to tag.[1] (I think the old interface showed higher-karma users higher up?)
More importantly, Iâm still shown the wrong users even when I type in the full username of the person Iâm trying to tagâin this case, Jason. [Edit: Iâve tried @ing some other users, now, and Iâve found that most of the time there isnât this problem. It looks like the problem occurs for users with a single word username thatâs a common(-ish) name, e.g., Jason, geoffrey, Joseph.] And there doesnât appear to be a way to âscroll downâ to find the right user [when there is this problem],[2] which means that Iâm unable to tag them.
(Sorry that this is a pretty critical comment. I appreciate the work you do :) )
Pressing my keyboardâs down arrow lets me âmove downâ the list thatâs shown in the interface, but it loops back to the top after the tenth optionâuser âJABâ, in the example aboveârather than letting me go âfurther downâ to find the right user.