page linking

[Smokey]

As a relatively new member I think the site is great, very informative and lots of help at hand.
Just as a suggestion would it be possible that when you mention someones user name in a thread they get a notification about the thread.
Like on facebook for example when you write @mathew hall in your status that person would get the notification.

Thanks mat.

[D4WNO]

Not really sure on the usefulness of this?

[Smokey]

just an idea, the uses are just the same as f.b i spose. Like for example if someone has posted a positive thread about you or negative even you might not know weather someone is singing your praises you slagging you off, unless you regularly checked all posts.

Mat

[TrixNFlix]

I think thats a nice idea Mathew, , not sure how easy it is to put into practice though. Scoff is probably thinking ,

[D4WNO]

See what you mean but it all depends on someone's name being spelt exactly right

[Smokey]

i spose, but on f.b it works on the basis that if you have the person in your friends list as you start typing it predicts who you are going to select then you choose who you want to link the page too, wouldnt it be possible to do the same so as you start typing it predicts who you want to select from all the members on the site.

Mat

[TrixNFlix]

i spose, but on f.b it works on the basis that if you have the person in your friends list as you start typing it predicts who you are going to select then you choose who you want to link the page too, wouldnt it be possible to do the same so as you start typing it predicts who you want to select from all the members on the site.

Mat

Remember though dude, there is just one person who builds this website, and for free, in his own time. Facebook have loads working on it and get paid

[Smokey]

very true, but just a suggestion for future as it would be benificial.

Mat

[Smokey]

i sound like a facebook whore, another idea, available chat so you can talk to them directly instead of having to keep private messaging in them would be good to i think.

[benj88]

Set up an rtoc facebook or just add people off here on facebook? Lol

[Smokey]

makes sense but they might not have facebook or be signed in on both.

[Ian S]

How many friends do you have in face book?

Perhaps just a few.

To do what you suggest the entire RTOC membership list would have to be referenced to every word everyone started to type in case was a name of a member.

I.e., the same as having perhaps 1000 friends in your face book list.

I expect that would slow down the RTOC site.

Even if it just scanned the data base for every time someone typed a @

[Ian S]

i sound like a facebook whore, another idea, available chat so you can talk to them directly instead of having to keep private messaging in them would be good to i think.

For that there's msn, or whatever.

We are not able to develop the site at the moment as Scoff does not have enough spare time and we have no other people volunteering to help develop and write php code or even to find a sufficiently capable programmer we can pay to assist Scoff.

We need someone to help move the MS SQL over to a new server.