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searching on a member, and the @ sign

J_catlady
 

Can someone here outline how the @[membername] thing can be used? I know that as a group owner, I can click on it within a member's page and be taken to the member's profile. But can it be used to search on Groups.io members in general and find their profiles - not necessarily as a group owner? In fact, is there any ability to search for a Groups.io members in general, using their username or a portion of their username, from anything other than a member's page within the member list?

Thanks for any info. If this ability is nonexistent, or nobody knows about it, I will post on beta.?

Thanks.

J
 

As far as I can remember, it's only used to set up a site Profile. I prefer not to have one of those, but I know many folks have them. I can't think of a reason to be able to search site wide for them, other than curiosity. Unless someone is in a group that I belong to, I don't see why I'd be interested in any particular person.

There's an item on the Trello list to be able to search messages by sender, but that's the closest I could come on finding anything related.

Duane
J_catlady
 

Duane,

When I set up a profile, the @ sign was added automatically, not (seemingly) by anything I did. So I'm confused by you saying it's "used to set up a profile."

In any case, I think it would be great if it could be used like in twitter, so that when I include, for example, @Duane in a message, you would get a notification. And also, I think it would be great if one could do a search on a username in Groups.io - for example, I look for "Dua" and you (and anyone else whose name starts with that) would come up.

Perhaps I'll suggest these on beta as wishlist items.

J
 

Correct. I don't have a public profile, so don't have an @name. That happens when you create a User Name (AKA short name) on your Profile page, which must be unique on the site (mine is blank):
/editprofile?page=profile
You have a public profile, so anyone can see it if they know what your User Name is:
/profile/J_catlady

If you look for /profile/Duane, you'll be taken to the site home page (Your Subscriptions) since it doesn't exist.

Maybe it's just not obvious to me, but I don't see why it would be useful. If it's posted in a message on a group I'm in, I'll read it. If it's on another group, I wouldn't be able to read it anyway on a private group.

Another thought. What if you get in a hurry and include @Dunae by accident. If there's someone using that name, they'll get the notification. I wouldn't and you might wonder why I didn't respond. Of course, I'd expect to see some sort of error message if the short name didn't exist at all, but that could get complicated quickly.

Duane

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