Suggestion to automatically invite people to a private message when you @mention them

[jancborchardt (Jan-Christoph Borchardt)]

We use Discourse at Nextcloud a bunch – so first thanks a lot for that great open source software.

A colleague just said that I should look at a specific thread that they @mentioned me in. I let him know I didn’t get a notification and only after some time we found out the reason was that it was a private message.

Hence it would be cool when a person who @mentions someone in a private message who is not part of that conversation gets prompted if they want to invite that person. Of course not automatically invite them, but a nudge would be a good UX improvement.

[Tom_Newsom]

Red pop-over on the composer?

"You’ve mentioned @user, but they aren’t currently a part of this conversation. Would you like to invite them instead?

[DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor)]

Also refer to this feature request:

Visual indicator when a user can't see a mention

Currently when a user cannot “see” or receive a notification of a mention of their username there could be a better visual indicator. I would like to see some like how Facebook handles this… Normally a mention on Facebook looks like this (a blue coloured link): [image] And a mention where the user can’t see the post is like this (grey with a grey “no entry” icon): [image] When you hover over the username a “user card” appears with the following addition: [image] So a more complete scree…

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

An overall improved visual indicator as linked to above nicely covers this use case as well as others, so let’s take any further discussion over there.