I'm a member of a few other forums, and having notifications at the top of the screen with who quoted you, and the topic, with a direct URL to both (the user profile, and the topic), makes it so much nicer. I can normally just center click all of the notifications to get them all up in tabs, and read the post, and decide rather or not to respond.
I like the sound of this. What type of forums have this already?
Instead of quoting people directly how about an option to just click something on or near their username so it auto types for example @hilariousandco. This would be good for times when you don't want or need to quote the whole post and it'd make things easier on mobiles.
Would it also be possible to get a notification anytime someone mentions your username in a thread you
haven't posted in?
I like the @username feature, it's something that many people have become well-acquainted with over the past few years. Should it be effective in quotes of quotes where the @username is mentioned? I guess that could be useful still. Once again it could lead to abuse from people constantly notifying you, but I think that this is unlikely to happen for general forum users, maybe more so for staff.
I'm not so sure on the general mentioning of usernames though, think that is over the top. Also what if your username is something that people mention but aren't necessary referring to you like 'shitcoin' you would be getting a lot of false positive notifications. Of course people with usernames like 'and' or 'the' etc could be filtered in a stop list, but generally I think that it is a bad idea.
