Outgoing Mentions

[akirk]

With this Pull Request, when you mention another ActivityPub account in the form [email protected] (or @[email protected]), it will add a "tag" and mention the user so that they'll get a notification. It will also send it to their inbox, even if they are not following you.

In the Friends Plugin, you can use the Gutenberg autocomplete to just mention a user and it will rewrite the mention to the correct ActivityPub username:

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This adds a number of unit tests to ensure that this doesn't break anything.

[akirk]

By default, in the Friends plugin, @-mentions of others will be hidden (see akirk/friends#124). This can be changed with a setting on the Edit Feeds page:

[HammyHavoc]

This looks great! Once available, I'll tag the authors of ActivityPub and Friends in on a post mentioning my use of it to give it a test.

[pfefferle]

@akirk how difficult is it to port the Gutenberg autocomplete feature for the classic block editor. I fear that no one understands the feature and/or does not know how to use it, if there is no GUI?!?

[akirk]

The autocomplete is actually not part of this PR since it autocompletes local users which are only present if you follow someone with the Friends plugin. You need to manually type the user you'd like to mention and it will be extracted here: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/pull/213/files#diff-0c17a58839e890fd735824ceba1483d38496d10ef779994bc90ab9d53843e763R76

[akirk]

The idea of this PR is that if you do mention someone via their ActivityPub address, they also get cc-ed and tagged.

[pfefferle]

I understood that, I just feared that noone will understand that this is possible. Maybe we can add a block (that might check the webfinger address) in the future.

[pfefferle]

Thanks a lot!