What I’ve noticed when using the @ function is that it has priority problems and issues going past certain characters.
If you just type @ by itself, it will show a list of people in the thread, which makes sense, as you’re most likely going to be pinging someone in the thread. But if you start typing any other letter, then it seems to completely forget that, and instead just goes through the entire list of members with names that start with those letters, stopping after it gets to a certain number. The priority system should prefer posters in the thread first, followed by posters who are currently active, only then falling back to alphabetical order.
It also seems to have an issue where it will not search a name with an underscore (_) unless you’ve typed at least one underscore. For example, if I type @What, I get only one poster as an option. It’s only if I type @What_ that the mod What_Exit shows up. Similarly, I must type @Really_ to see the poster Really_Not_All_That_Bright.
Those are the flaws I’ve noticed in the system. It seems weird to me that no one has brought them up before our board came along. Maybe most boards aren’t as big as ours.