jesse_the_k: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040204184222/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1031.html">Bitmapped "dogcow" Apple Technote 1013, and appeared in many OS9 print dialogs</a> (dogcow from OS9)
[personal profile] jesse_the_k

Hooray for an easier way to make usernames appear here! Simply type
@username
and you’ll get the right user head:

for people:
@jesse_the_k becomes [personal profile] jesse_the_k

for communities:
@access_fandom becomes [community profile] access_fandom

for official communities:
@dw-nifty becomes [site community profile] dw_nifty

@ Shortcut for other sites

The @ trick also works with the two dozen external sitenames DW supports: use @username period sitename

@dreamwidth.twitter becomes [twitter.com profile] dreamwidth
@dreamwidth.github becomes [github.com profile] dreamwidth


These shortcuts work almost everywhere in Dreamwidth, posting or commenting

  • in email posts and replies
  • the HTML editor, whether you

EXCEPT they don't work when you're take full control of the HTML reins (also known as "raw HTML" or "don't autoformat")

The @ shortcuts are faster and easier than the HTML versions, which do still work:

<user name=username>
<user name=username site=sitename>

Dreamwidth’s @ shortcuts are format, not communication

On Twitter, @ with a username is a verb — @user’s "mentions" notify @user every time it appears. This convention has spread widely to Discord, Github, Tumblr, Facebook and elsewhere.

That’s not true here. On Dreamwidth, @ shortcuts only show a link to the user’s account

The @ shortcuts even affect old Dreamwidth posts. When I wrote about @jesse_the_k to mean "Jesse on Twitter" back in 2010, now that will show a Dreamwidth userhead.

Bypassing the @ Shortcut

Dreamwidth makes any characters right after an @ sign into a username. To make the @ sign simply display

  • precede the @ with backslash:
    \@WordNextToAtSign
  • in HTML, use the character reference &commat;

ETA BUG ALERT never mind, they fixed the bug!

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Date: 2019-07-08 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cosmolinguist
Ha, and when my phone's autocorrect has finally learned to follow "user name=" with the usernames I mention most often. :)

This is great though, especially given my habit of typing so many of my daily blog entries on my phone! Thanks for writing this up to let us know.

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