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It's actually written already, just not installed here (@Dragooon makes mucho awesome plugins, yo)It's actually a plugin at present. Not that you'd know it's a plugin but it's a plugin. The only core notifications at present are likes and move-topic. Mentions is one of Dragooon's plugins as well (in fact the original notification system was a plugin!)

While it's certainly doable to do that, experience suggests that once people start seeing other people doing it, the need for explanation largely goes away.

What I would suggest in comparison is a list of all the people in the thread for easy clicking, sort of like the contact list in the PM area, but for all the people in thread so far if you want to reply to someone individually. Perhaps include your contacts if you want to include someone in the topic.

I'm not really enthusiastic for more buttons everywhere in the interface.

What XF did was to actually limit the height of quotes and make their contents scrollable, which in practice seems to be doing much the same thing.

IIRC we had actually done some work on it but I'd need to check to be sure.

This is from the mists of time - far enough back that not even Pepperidge Farm remembers that.

I believe it may have been related to the way things were done back in YaBBSE days when personal messages weren't even called personal messages but were called instant messages[1].

Now, I know we've done a few things (there are people who take the view that 'disable who's online' should hide the online list as well, due to its ambiguity and I think we fixed it) but you're right, it's something that is weird and probably should be sorted out once and for all.

1.	In the code, even in SMF's code, there are still references to this, including action=im which is present in 2.0 though I believe was removed in 2.1

Just to update:This is why the hit count is normally so messed up.

You kind of have to watch their community to fathom out the approach on this one... it isn't really about what they could or couldn't be bothered to implement. It's more about what they feel is important - and they have a serious track record of listening to their customers.No, but it doesn't have to, that's sort of the point.

GA runs in JS on the client side. Bots don't generally run JavaScript. As a result, GA's figures are likely to be far more accurate in that respect. They're wrong in other respects, e.g. browser share because whatever the site owner uses is likely to skew the stats somewhat, but most site owners don't really care too much about that.

Notifications = overall system, Notifier = something in the system of which many instances will be created.

It's like the difference between boards and topics ;)

-sigh- You're never going to convince me on this.

Why are you so insistent on having data that I can *prove* to you is fatally incorrect?