The discussion revolves around automatically adding @username when replying to a post to improve context, especially on mobile. gingerman suggests this feature to avoid confusion when going through multiple replies. lidel creates mockups A and B, experimenting with moving the current indicator and replacing it with @name. gingerman prefers B as it will be shown in the compose box while typing a reply. lidel agrees, emphasizing the need to differentiate between casual mentions and direct replies. A combined approach, C, is proposed, featuring both the @name and an arrow indicator. However, codinghorror expresses that this feature is unlikely to be adopted as a default, suggesting that sites can override the CSS to achieve this if desired.
In the above conversation, @codinghorror has actually replied to riking. I actually cannot say immediately whom he has replied until I go through each reply dropdown for above posts.
My request here - can we add @mention automatically when we hit reply on a post. This help others to understand the context easily without going through individual replies. This is important especially in mobiles.
Edit1: I understand there is an img at the far right about who the reply points to. But it didnt help. May be shifting that to the far left helps.
@lidel Awesome to see quick experiments from the community. This is a better way to showcase the solution. Personally I liked B as it will be shown in the compose box while typing a reply
I agree: if we want to use @name it should be ‘hardcoded’ in preview pane, otherwise someone may want to explicitly start a reply with @name which will cause ugly duplicate (I’ve seen some people add @name in replies for clarity reasons).
I guess we also want to differentiate between causal mentions and direct replies, so perhaps we could combine A&B:
