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Tagging artists is a good idea. However, it'd need to be by artist ID since artist names aren't unique. From a UX perspective this is ugly, because unlike posts where clicking the reply button can append the ID, the artists in question probably don't have a clickable control on the same page. An autocomplete in the form would probably work best.

There'd also have to be a different symbol, most likely @, to disambiguate a post ref from an artist ref.

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You mean an autocomplete thing like Discord uses? That would probably be best, yeah, assuming artist ID's aren't shared between names; if all of, say, my artist names use the same artist ID, it would need to be hidden from people tagging so they couldn't cross-reference it between names to make lists of which ones are my alts.

Honestly, though, I don't think it would be a very big problem if it just pinged everyone who had that name at the same time. People probably won't have alts of other people's names unless it's a joke or something, and that can probably be sorted out by context and what.

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Reply and Comment (comments on your own entries) notifs are now implemented.

Still todo:

• Figure out way to make @ mentions work, or maybe not bother.
• Make hovering the navbar bell load a dropdown of unread notifs.

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I'm going to throw a few ideas I had for @mentions in here, in case you find them interesting.

• @mention stories, so anonymous authors can be tagged if their story is being discussed, and possibly to link to stories for people who are interested in reading them.

• @mention groups, so that one @mention can tag a whole lot of people all at once. Not sure how this would work, exactly; maybe people could create these, and other people could add themselves if they saw one? Maybe people could just create them and then add tags themselves? Anyways, I thought it might be neat.

Oh, and if you're making a hover/dropdown thing, including the 'mark as read' button there would be a good idea too, maybe.

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