Tagging usernames with a space in them

Eris Alar

If I try to tag someone, say @James Puckett, I can only tag the part of the name before the space, can Vanilla do what Facebook does and tag names with spaces in them?

Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh

Apparently not. I'd be happy if tagging were just disabled.

Eris Alar

Why? Is it not helpful to notify people if you are directing a question or response to them?

James Puckett

I don’t think this is something Vanilla can fix because it can’t distinguish between a space in the user name and a space intended to move on to the next word in a post.

Deleted Account

Aka the name space space.

Jan Schmoeger

@I @do @not @miss @it @either.

Eris Alar

I like how FB implemented it though, where you select from a list of people whose name contains the characters you have typed.

James Puckett

Facebook does some nice stuff. But they have a lot more money to work with than Vanilla.

SiDaniels

never mind