Benaiah Mischenko

> You can have meta data about the user at the top of the file, without having any meta data about the messages, which is basically what I'm pushing for....

Maybe a vertical tab would work :P On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:57 PM -0800, "Joel Dueck" wrote: If this is the approach it would be better to use...

I really think there should be a metadata block either at the top of twtxt.txt or in another file. You could expose things like preferred username (so you could allow...

I think handling mentions as meta data would work better, and allow for full decentralization. For example, if I had “bob” with the url “http://example.com/bob.txt”, and I posted something that...

See also [issue #6](https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/6). I like the @ syntax suggested there, with client-side transformation of that to and from a human-readable @USERNAME representation.

A webhook system, where the sender sends a request to a url to notify the person being mentioned, could also work. This could be combined with the registry system, so...

@tedder: a "broker who can store mentions" is exactly what I meant when I said "this could be combined with the registry system" - a third party could watch for...

@mmk2410: sending email seems like a bit of a big task for somebody who's just trying to host a lightweight twitter system. If you really need email notifications, that could...

@DracoBlue how is the registry implemented? Is it scanning a bunch of twtxt users and checking for mentions? I still think the webhook system would have significant advantages, as it...

It would likely be simple to write an OPMLtwtxt converter if someone needed that, so I agree that it would be better kept out of the core twtxt app.