As per the title.

I just tried taging someone for the first time and I didn’t get the magic blue link. I assume they don’t get notified unless it turns blue. I’m on the mobile site if that makes a difference. I’ve noticed a few other peoples comments with the same issue.

Comment for example. https://aussie.zone/comment/297324

  • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneM
    4·
    1 year ago

    Pretty sure you need to put the full @lodion@aussie.zone, which should give you a popup to select the one you want, when you select one it should populate this code for you: [@lodion@aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/u/lodion) giving a final result of @lodion@aussie.zone

          • Bill Stickers@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The notification part only works if the mentioned users has reddit premium. Otherwise just works as a link to their account for everyone else. (Edit, thanks @Zagorath for the correction.)

            I’ve only ever seen people use the reddit implementation to talk about particular users (mods/spez notorious members of the sub, etc), or occasionally to call in a celebrity to notify that a thread is about them or that they should weigh in.

            I like the way people are using them here, i.e more twitter/mastodon like. Where they use them to include others (op, reply comments parent user, etc) to include more people in the conversation.

            • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              The notification part only works if the mentioned users has reddit premium. Otherwise just works as a link to their account for everyone else.

              I’m sorry but this is simply not true. Any /u/mention on Reddit will provide the user mentioned a notification, unless the comment mentions more than three users (to avoid easy spam).