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This is kind of a fluffy request, but if it's not terribly difficult, I'd like to see it implemented.
livejournal has a way to easily hyperlink LJ users.
In other words, if I say "I gamed with Crothian at Gen Con", I'd like to be able to surround Crothian with maybe a <user> tag or something to tell the system it's a user, so that it reads like "I gamed with Crothian at Gen Con".
Hmm. IIRC vBulletin saves the post with the bbcode untouched and all the parsing is done by showthread.php. This means every time a user reads a post with that tag, the forum would have to perform one additional database query to fetch the id from the given username (to create the link). Essentially, the forum have to search for the username. It'd be friendler for the database with a tag like <userid>232</userid> but that'd be pretty useless (I don't even know my own user id).
Under vbulletin 3.5 it is possible to create vbcodes that execute php when they are called. Hence I can write a code that does a user name lookup and if it finds a match it will return the result as a link, otherwise no link. I'll add this to the list of things to add when that upgrade occurs.
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