Mowgles Posted December 6 Posted December 6 Group Mention Query Something that’s been requested and wanted a while within my community is the group mention. Particularly by my admin team to notify members depending on their group instead of mentioning each one by name. Will this feature be available in V5? It was previously a plugin on marketplace but that’s all gone now. I get people can spam this etc but surely it should be a choice to have this on community especially with the cost that paying for.. a lot of people say they prefer discord for these notifications but to me, discord has 0 character.. forum the way forward. Really hope this feature is added. Language Packs Handful of my users are Italian or other language speakers. Will there be language packs also added to V5? Or do we still need to depend on third party apps that may not work on new platform?
Marc Posted December 6 Posted December 6 At present you would need 3rd party language packs. There are no other official language packs available currently. In terms of group mention, there isnt a way to do this, and in most cases this would be undesirable in my opinion. Imagine on a large site, getting tagged constantly by people for things you dont want. Spammers using this facility to hammer mentions etc.
Donnie95 Posted December 6 Posted December 6 7 hours ago, Marc said: There are no other official language packs available currently. It’s strange that the software and this site are not translated. Missing the potential to attract new non-english speaking customers. Mowgles 1
Randy Calvert Posted December 7 Posted December 7 2 hours ago, Donnie95 said: It’s strange that the software and this site are not translated. Missing the potential to attract new non-english speaking customers. That would then mean supporting it. Given those languages are not spoken by support, that would make things much more difficult here on the forums and for when support cases have to be escalated. It would also mean significantly more work for all of the documentation, product guides, etc. The cost vs reward benefit typically does not work out.
Mowgles Posted December 8 Author Posted December 8 On 12/6/2024 at 3:49 PM, Marc said: In terms of group mention, there isnt a way to do this, and in most cases this would be undesirable in my opinion. Imagine on a large site, getting tagged constantly by people for things you dont want. Spammers using this facility to hammer mentions etc. Was it not used as a plugin before? In terms of admins mentioning groups of members at once this is definitely a feature that would be desired. Of course spammers could use if enabled for members, you can already mention individual people. Having to list out every individual mention would be far more effective if could do specific groups, eg for my community would be their respective leagues.
Randy Calvert Posted December 8 Posted December 8 2 minutes ago, Mowgles said: Was it not used as a plugin before? In terms of admins mentioning groups of members at once this is definitely a feature that would be desired. Of course spammers could use if enabled for members, you can already mention individual people. Having to list out every individual mention would be far more effective if could do specific groups, eg for my community would be their respective leagues. There was a third party resource that added this functionality. It’s never been a part of the base software. IPS can’t advise on things done outside of the software. You would need to find a third party developer to see if they are going to offer this for v5. Mowgles, Marc and Jim M 3
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