Mention system

[hugohil]

How about having a mention system ?
We could ping others with @people, and it would (it's just an idea) blink a "@xyz pinged you" on your own twab page.
I was thinking that we could use firebase to achieve this, and do this with a script to include in the front, so any implementation of twab could hook to this.

What do you think ? Any ideas / suggestions ?

[raphaelbastide]

In my opinion, there is two things to solve firt:

• Do we really need a notification system, if yes do we really need it as we already know it, is there a possibility to think ”out of the box”?
• We need to precise what makes the twabber’s identity: an URL, a user name, or both? What if two twabbers are named @people?

Using firebase will centralise data, not sure it is a good idea.
Idea: Trackbacks can be used as notification?
I know I don’t answer to anything here :) let’s keep this conversation going on. Maybe @bpierre can help.

[hugohil]

You're right, twab is not twitter.
But I'm still trying to figure out if twab should be somewhere you write down anything you want, and anyone can check on it, real-time or not, or if it should also be a "social-media", thus including someway of socialisation in it ...
Also, I agree about centralisation, as what make twab so cool and peculiar is its very volatile aspect.

[LenaicTerrier]

Maybe using domains ? @example.com being http://twab.example.com/.