Mastodon: Also mention the boosting user when replying to a boost

Created on 4 Jun 2017 · 5Comments · Source: tootsuite/mastodon

This is a proposal for an improvement.

When you reply to a boost, it pre-fills the original author's handle into the box, but not the boosting user's one.

So when you reply, only one of them gets a notification. I believe it would be more useful if it pre-filled both of the users, the booster and the boostee. It works the same way on Twitter (or worked, before they ruined up the mention UI).

(sorry if this is a dupe, I couldn't find anything related)

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MightyPork

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I dislike this feature of Twitter, because some users on Twitter does not care about who they mentioned to.
With this feature, you may be annoyed by replies does not related for you when booting big news, happening, jokes, etc.
It's known as '巻き込みリプライ' in Japan.

clworld on 7 Jun 2017

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clworld on 7 Jun 2017

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With this feature, you may be annoyed by replies does not related for you when booting big news, happening, jokes, etc.

I have seen a lot of people complaining about this feature of Twitter, too.

Gargron on 2 Jul 2017

Google translate says 巻き込みリプライ = "trapped reply"! Good name.

Cassolotl on 2 Jul 2017

I really really like seeing replies to things that I've boosted—and the favs/boosts they get as well—but I can see the reply feature being more controversial since it definitely encourages talking "about" vs talking "at" in the replies and that's pretty anti-social behavior.

nightpool on 2 Jul 2017

I would like this feature.

Most often I want to reply to the person who boosted because they're the person I follow and with whom I want to discuss the content of the post. They cared about the content enough to share it so it's a reasonable expectation that they're interested in talking about it.