Hello,<p>-- scenario --<p>I'm the founder of Needle, a social network for vinyl records lovers. In Needle users post their vinyl records and other users can Like and Comment (with @user and #tag) our vinyl records. In our case they can also listen the preview of the song in the vinyl record.<p>-- user case --<p>Today happened that a guy posted a record similar to one in my collection so I thought I wanted to tell him to listen to my record, but I had to say something like:<p>"hey @mrdobelina listen to Todd Terje - Ragysh in my collection, it's #awesome!"<p>boring. So I thought that would be cool to directly link the album with a symbol, example:<p>~ragysh<p>that would results in:<p>"hey @mrdobelina listen to ~ragysh it's #amazing!"<p>the user can now click ~ragysh to be redirected to my post.<p>-- conclusion --<p>talking generally, now is:<p>@user is used to mention someone
#tag is used to connect arguments<p>~object could be used to connect other users to a specific object<p>-- thoughts --<p>What you think?
What symbol would you use instead of ~ ?<p>We're going to add this feature in Needle soon.<p>-- not intended to be spammy self promotion --<p>Here's the video teaser - http://bit.ly/needle_teaser<p>you can download and try Needle at this link, it's free and feedback is very appreciated. Soon we'll officially launch<p>bit.ly/needle_appstore<p>The @mention in comments works very bad, that's why we restarted to work on them and the ~ idea came out.
It seems like a good idea, but what happens for example of two albums (or singles) have the same exact title? Also do users have to add the album/single first before using the ~format or is that automated somehow?
wouldn't it be more interesting if you enabled the linking ability on any text? If I use the ~ syntax, I lose the actual name of the record. If it was possible to just link any text to your posts, it would be a lot clearer.