# Mention noise / central dashboard
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** mentions
**Created:** [February 3, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755 "2015-02-03T01:23:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/1 "2015-02-03T01:23:55Z")
###Mention Noise
I was just wondering if the Discourse team get `@username` mention noise?
I can see you guys use mentions between the Discourse Team to draw attention to things and effectively create a todo list.
Do you have a special method for this? Perhaps use of bookmarks.
I was thinking you guys would need a specific way of giving mentions by a Discourse Team member a higher priority if you got a lot of mentions from other users.
Or is this just a non-issue?
###Dashboard
If you are providing support for a lot of Discourse instances…
Do you have a central dashboard for monitoring “at mentions” from admins / moderators from across your commercially supported Discourse instances?
I can see a gap (product wise) where logging in with your Discourse ID into a Dashboard seeing activities from across the communities I’m involved which could be helpful.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/2 "2015-02-03T05:50:18Z")
One thing I wish we had is a list of just our @name mentions.
Note that @riking added a “view all” mode for notifications which lets you dig into very long notification lists via your profile page, and @cpradio (I think) added a dismiss all button there. These were very helpful changes in managing lots of notifications.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/3 "2015-02-03T05:56:01Z")
I think seeing a blue 704 was what prompted me to do that.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/4 "2015-02-03T11:29:03Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> One thing I wish we had is a list of just our @name mentions.
I support that. Not sure why we merged it with other notifications.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/5 "2015-02-03T13:02:08Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> One thing I wish we had is a list of just our @name mentions.
That would be useful. Even on our instance where I don’t necessarily get a lot of them, but when I do, it is important for me to follow up on it. So having a spot where I can specifically see who and where mentioned me, would give me a list I can work from.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/6 "2015-02-04T23:37:45Z")
The list of your @mentions is available in the backend, just never displayed in the UI.
[https://meta.discourse.org/user\_actions.json?offset=0&username=codinghorror&filter=7&\_=1423092867737](https://meta.discourse.org/user_actions.json?offset=0&username=codinghorror&filter=7&_=1423092867737)
Could add a tab to the user profile page?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/7 "2015-02-05T00:05:38Z")
Yeah that would be a great thing if you can add it @riking !
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/8 "2015-02-05T03:42:15Z")
Done 😃
With an extremely small diff for a feature! Just 6 new lines added and 2 lines removed. (plus 6 for a temporary css)
Desktop
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Mobile
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We need to upgrade font-awesome, by the way. I added a temporary hack to get the @ icon to display in the meantime.
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> Meta: https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/
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> We ne…ed to upgrade font awesome, because current has \`fa-at\` and we can use that instead of a literal \`@\` in the notifications menu. Remember to remove the diff I added here in user.scss when that happens.
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> Desktop
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> Mobile
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/9 "2015-02-05T04:15:53Z")
> [@riking](#):
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> . I added a temporary hack
I am against this, we need to upgrade font awesome.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/10 "2015-02-05T04:51:30Z")
No we don’t the @ icon has been in font awesome forever. We use it in the notifications drop down for the mentions.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/11 "2015-02-05T05:11:03Z")
I just don’t want this:
```plaintext
+// XXX HACK
+// TODO REMOVE WHEN FONT AWESOME IS UPDATED
+.fa.fa-at:before {
+ content: "@";
+}
```
feels yucky to me, also no harm in upgrading font awesome.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/12 "2015-02-05T05:23:58Z")
Actually I was mistaken we use the literal @. Probably Ok to upgrade FA before 1.2.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/13 "2015-02-05T06:03:10Z")
I’ll remove that CSS, then the icon will “just start working” when we do the FA upgrade.
edit: pr amended, will have no icon until FA upgrade
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/14 "2015-02-05T06:06:30Z")
I think mentions overlap with replies. we used to split up reply types and then we started merging them all together in a bundle to minimise confusion.
I wonder if it makes sense having replies and then allowing users to filter replies by what they will.
Also I wonder what the use case is for purely looking at @ mentions vs all replies.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/15 "2015-02-05T06:08:30Z")
Name mentions tend to be more “I need someone else from the outside to look at this topic” versus conversational replies to previous posts in the topic.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/16 "2015-02-05T06:08:31Z")
Well, @mentions aren’t necessarily replies are they?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/17 "2015-02-05T06:15:21Z")
For the UIs purpose they are … they are included in the “replies” filter.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/18 "2015-02-05T06:22:11Z")
I noticed; the change removes that and separates them out. Now only “reply” and “quote” are in the replies tab, which is the same as what gets displayed in a topic.
Seems more consistent to me.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/19 "2015-02-05T06:26:24Z")
this is a full circle on a change and I am not really seeing why do this, next we will be splitting out quotes and then end up with 4 extra tabs
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-noise-central-dashboard/24755/20 "2015-02-05T06:27:03Z")
Well, the goal was to see @name mentions alone, so if we can’t do that, then why bother.
Edit: re reading the above I guess that is what we are doing so I am Ok with that. A @name mention is definitely not a reply in any sense of the word.
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