New feature - @ mentions

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Afternoon

As previously requested, we're very pleased to introduce a new tag function.

You will now be able to tag Mumsnetters by name on Talk threads - just type @ followed by their username, et voila! The MNer in question will get an email notification (unless they've turned the feature off). So to tag user LovelyMNer, you'd type @LovelyMNer, and so forth.

This is now available to all users on the Mumsnet site and in the Talk app. It's switched on by default, but if it's not for you, just turn it off by going to Customise Settings.

As usual, this is a beta version, so please do let us know what you think and how it works for you, and we'll feed all your thoughts back to our tech team.

Cheers and happy tagging,

MNHQ

What about all the people called User135806(;3347906632344336754369.
That'll get confusing if you @ the wrong one.

Like others I have an email just for MN which I never check.

I've seen threads asking for mentions/tagging. Not as many as there are threads asking for edit button but Ho Hum.

I'm not sure I get bolded more than a couple of times a week. That volume of emails is really not going to be problematic.

Particularly since nobody can spell me unless they c+p

Oh. I must have a special email for MN, too that I've forgotten all about. My @ self message didn't come through to my normal inbox.

@LineyReborn

Test in case it recognised that you were tagging yourself.

@Maryz
Where are you?

Ooh @MrsHathaway yes, yours came through ok.

@usual get the gin out love

@MaQueen
Put the gin down and come and say hi
(Liking this now)

Thank you kindly.

Anyone wondering:

Hello MrsHathaway

You have been @mentioned by LineyReborn on this thread:New feature - @ mentions

Best
MNHQ

Who else do we miss?

Tethers
Hully
Chaos
Talc

I'm going to use this power for evil. Will @mention all the Christmas haterz on all the Christmas threads.

Which means that Fids or Soupy would still see it.

Speaking for myself only, no I wouldn't.

@TalcAndTurnips is around, but very rarely I think. She is fab. Apparently she lives in a shed on an allotment next to a gravel pit and distills her own absinthe.

@ifailtoseethepoint

#oldgimmer

@00100001

How come we got this mention thing.

but NO edit button????

Can I request a hide poster option then please, that would be more useful than this tagging thing?

@NoTractorsAtTheTable (I'm such a child, I see people doing things and have to join in )

After the hacker I made a special MN email account that I never look at. @wex testing

Thankfully, I have no idea how to access my dodgy Yahoo email account I had to open in August 2015. I see nothing.

@Lovelilies
Testing

binary

I think MNHQ should have made you special one.

Testing @binary

I think this is useful as you'll know if someone answered you on a thread that's not showing up on I'm On anymore.

@SarcasmMode

It wouldn't let me send a rude message to myself.