I don't know if it's me but does the bot automatically notify when someone mentions my name in a post? Like if someone posts "I agree with Deathwing" should I get notified? I only seem to be getting notifications regarding quotes.
I would really like an option like this, so if anyone writes @Deathwing or Deathwing in general, I would receive a notification. I believe you can scrape all the posts on Bitcointalk for this.
In my case, I don't get notified when there's no @ before my username but some users say it works for them.
You are not the first one to make this notification without @ request and this is what the bot developer has to say:
~ Yes, you are correct. I would plan to extend without "@" the mention.
Not using the @ for the nickname creates many problems!
The regex would process every word and therefore I would have to totally change the algorithm:
I would have to cycle all the nicknames and search in the text if someone is found! Its a mess!
Now it works differently, I take the nickname with the @ and see if i have it in the database, more efficient.
If i raise some donation i can upgrade VPS and add this feature, but at the moment isnt good idea.
If you wish to add more funding for the further development the bot, the donation address is in the OP.
* Merit sender and topic link. As on the Merit page.
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The topic link is fine for me but I wouldn't mind if the sender is included as well.
