replies: select whom to mention

[schmittlauch]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When replying to RTs or other replies, not only the author of the post replied to is mentioned but a lot of other accounts as well: The retweeting one, the authors of other posts further up the reply chain, …
Thus a large number of mentions accumulates, often causing more accounts to be mentioned and notified than necessary. While I really hated the change of mentioning behaviour anyways since it's been introduced, the Twitter web client at least provides a (very hidden) way of deselecting whom to mention in a reply: clicking on the list of mentioned accounts while writing a reply.

Describe the solution you'd like
I request a way to "take people out of the mentions" and be able to (de)select who is mentioned by a reply.

Option 1: mimic the Twitter web client behavior by giving an optional modal dialogue where it's possible to deselect certain mentions

Option 2: return to old-style mentions where each mention just happens in the tweet text and can just be deleted

[IBBoard]

This has been a long-term feature plan, but I've never been sure of a good UI for it. Confession: If I'm in a situation where it really matters, I end up going to Twitter and doing the one post and then replying to that post from Cawbird for the rest of the thread!

I'd go for the modal dialog rather than the text, just because it doesn't add clutter when you don't want to change anything and it doesn't make it harder to work out what the tweet length is (what if someone changes one of the handles in the middle of the list?). But I've never been sure how to do a nice dialog either.

The "delete DM" UI might be a step in the right direction. But it's the wrong way around - you want people ticked by default and then you untick them to not mention them!

Maybe one for @CodedOre to chip in on with an idea of how to do the user list.

[CodedOre]

Would be indeed a good feature to be added in the redesign!

But it's indeed a question on how to design it.

I won't take a look at it immediately though. I am currently doing the final things to wrap up the stuff to do for university in this semester, so I get back to it in like two weeks.

[CodedOre]

Alright, I have made a design. It's quite similar to the approach Twitter is using:

The account list is an flat button, which, when pressed, would open the following dialog to select the accounts you want to mention:

[schmittlauch]

Looks good to me, one possible improvement though: One checkbox on top to (de)select all non-locked boxes.

[CodedOre]

Looks good to me, one possible improvement though: One checkbox on top to (de)select all non-locked boxes.

Could look something like this:

I am still not sure if one could improve the header checkbutton a little bit though.