Facebook mentions

[ptrcnull]

mention people on Messenger from Discord

[jtylr]

@Bjornskjald - Any progress on this one? Was about to crack open the code to see if I could make @everyone work from discord -> Messenger but wasn't sure what the messenger library supported.

[ptrcnull]

@everyone won't work because messenger doesn't have such option

[jtylr]

Looking at the API that miscord uses, we could get a list of group members and then mention each of them in a message if the source platform is Discord, that's my plan anyway.

[ptrcnull]

it would need a switch to disable it, using it in big groups (100+ people) would be catastrophic

[jtylr]

Yep, totally agree - If I have a chance to look at this, I'll open a PR with a config option for you.

[tatumalenko]

Does the Messenger side API or library currently have that functionality possible (to tag a user on Messenger) yet? I browsed the API briefly but didn't see it. I'd be willing to take a crack at this.

[ptrcnull]

I was trying to implement it in ChatPlug/libfb, but wasn't able to, we apparently use a wrong endpoint for sending messages

[jtylr]

I had a beta one-way version of tagging working here - It's in the wrong file and has only been hacked together as a test. Facebook has since blocked the facebook account I was using though so I've not worked on it since. This just used @e so I didn't have to type too much to test.

By no means is that code clean, it doesn't contain a config option (it should) but it may show how to do this.

I do wonder if mass-tagging users is what caused Facebook to flag the account as a bot though. Mass-tagging could potentially look like a spam-bot action. YMMV.

[ptrcnull]

We're using a different library now, based on mobile Messenger instead of the web version, so there's a different API than before

[jtylr]

Ah, my bad - I guess that happened in the last week or two. I'll have to update and see if that can do anything new!

[ptrcnull]

Fixed in ede8d63.