Based on a comment in the blog post a comment in the blog post, I implemented a way to handle this. The situation:
Spaces are not used for matching user displaynames.
The user displayname match must be 3 characters minimum, so @a and @ab will never match, but @abc will.
This is fine most of the time, but it is problematic for users with both spaces in their names and either very short or very common first names like "Al Smith".
Now, spaces are removed from the display name for the purpose of matching. If you need to refer to "Al Smith" then @als will work -- or @alsmith.
(Matches are done in reverse chronological order so you only need the minimum 3 characters necessary to match the displayname of the most recent comment under yours -- the matching process stops as soon as a match is made.)
Based on a comment in the blog post, I implemented a way to handle this. The situation:
Spaces are not used for matching user displaynames.
The user displayname match must be 3 characters minimum, so @a and @ab will never match, but @abc will.
This is fine most of the time, but it is problematic for users with both spaces in their names and either very short or very common first names like "Al Smith".
Now, spaces are removed from the display name for the purpose of matching. If you need to refer to "Al Smith" then @als will work -- or @alsmith.
(Matches are done in reverse chronological order so you only need the minimum 3 characters necessary to match the displayname of the most recent comment under yours -- the matching process stops as soon as a match is made.)
Based on a comment in the blog post, I implemented a way to handle this. The situation:
Spaces are not used for matching user displaynames.
The user displayname match must be 3 characters minimum, so @a and @ab will never match, but @abc will.
This is fine most of the time, but it is problematic for users with both spaces in their names and either very short or very common first names like "Al Smith".
Now, spaces are removed from the display name for the purpose of matching. If you need to refer to "Al Smith" then @als will work -- or @alsmith.
(Matches are done in reverse chronological order so you only need the minimum 3 characters necessary to match the displayname of the most recent comment under yours -- the matching process stops as soon as a match is made.)
Based on a comment in the blog post, I implemented a way to handle this. The situation:
Spaces are not used for matching user displaynames.
The user displayname match must be 3 characters minimum, so @a and @ab will never match, but @abc will.
This is fine most of the time, but it is problematic for users with both spaces in their names and either very short or very common first names like "Al Smith".
Now, spaces are removed from the display name for the purpose of matching. If you need to refer to "Al Smith" then @als will work -- or @alsmith.
(Matches are done in reverse chronological order so you only need the minimum 3 characters necessary to match the displayname of the most recent comment under yours -- the matching process stops as soon as a match is made.)