New DW Feature: @username.sitename
Monday, July 8th, 2019 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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 jesse_the_k
for communities:
@access_fandom
becomes access_fandom
for official communities:
@dw-nifty
becomes 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 dreamwidth
@dreamwidth.github
becomes dreamwidth
These shortcuts work almost everywhere in Dreamwidth, posting or commenting
- in email posts and replies
- the HTML editor, whether you
- just type text (also known as "casual HTML")
- or use Markdown
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
@
ETA BUG ALERT never mind, they fixed the bug!
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Date: 2019-07-08 07:26 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2019-07-10 03:11 pm (UTC)