Tagging people

[maratsade]

Often, when trying to tag people who are not involved in a thread -- for example, when trying to tag Liz or Amanda, I get "no matches."  Sometimes if I keep trying, it will work, but a few minutes ago I was trying to tag both Amanda and Liz and was only able to tag Amanda.  The system basically disavowed Liz's existence (bring her back!).

Is there a trick to this?  I just begin typing the "@" symbol and the system searches and if the person is part of the thread, there are no issues -- but when the person is not part of the thread, many times all I get is "no matches."

[GabeU]

Wow.  Your response times are nice and low.  

12/31/17 @ 12:21:00 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 479 ms

12/31/17 @ 12:01:49 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 440 ms

12/30/17 @ 11:59:27 pm : Colorado Springs, CO - 812 ms

12/30/17 @ 11:58:26 pm : Colorado Springs, CO - 725 ms

12/30/17 @ 11:55:55 pm : Colorado Springs, CO - 815 ms

12/30/17 @ 11:55:00 pm : Colorado Springs, CO - 468 ms

12/30/17 @ 1:18:33 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 683 ms

12/30/17 @ 1:13:49 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 449 ms

12/30/17 @ 1:13:23 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 695 ms

12/30/17 @ 12:34:10 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 3 ms

12/30/17 @ 12:33:15 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 460 ms

12/30/17 @ 12:33:00 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 462 ms

12/30/17 @ 12:32:42 am : Colorado Springs, CO - 677 ms

12/29/17 @ 11:27:07 pm : Colorado Springs, CO - 674 ms

12/29/17 @ 10:34:45 pm : Colorado Springs, CO - 440 ms

12/29/17 @ 10:34:20 pm : Colorado Springs, CO - 558 ms

12/29/17 @ 10:00:10 pm : San Jose, CA : Colorado Springs, CO - 459 ms

12/29/17 @ 9:31:30 pm : San Jose, CA : Colorado Springs, CO - 551 ms

12/29/17 @ 2:59:11 am : San Jose, CA : Colorado Springs, CO - 478 ms

12/29/17 @ 2:56:44 am : San Jose, CA : Colorado Springs, CO - 410 ms

12/29/17 @ 2:29:16 am : San Jose, CA : Colorado Springs, CO - 439 ms

12/29/17 @ 2:28:33 am : San Jose, CA : Colorado Springs, CO - 458 ms

12/29/17 @ 2:28:21 am : San Jose, CA : Colorado Springs, CO - 676 ms

And my speed right now (12:23AM)...  1.1Mbps.  Atrocious for that time of night.  SMH.  Still able to browse without issue, though, and, interestingly enough, I just watched a Youtube video in 1080p with no buffering.  The Last Jedi trailer.  

[MarkJFine]

You're also a bit North of me, most likely with a much lower takeoff angle.

The first thing I noticed when I got this was the much lower lag times. Never really saw it higher than 400 or so, and I was getting in the 600s on the HT1100 on a good day.

[maratsade]

My response time just now was 308ms.  That's pretty good for satellite. I never checked the latency with Gen 4, but I perceived it to be much faster than Gen 5. That was the first thing I noticed after the upgrade, that pages seemed to load up much more slowly.  They still do.

My speed last night was under 500 kbps.  I can watch YouTube with that but it's a bit grainy. 

[MarkJFine]

Dunno. Part of this could also be that I use the LA server. If there was one in San Diego I'd use that too. Whatever's closest to the gateway.

[maratsade]

I followed your advice and have been using the LA server now for a few days.  🙂

[GabeU]

@maratsade

What I find that works for me is typing the @, then Liz, then waiting a second for it to NOT find her, then backing up and deleting the i and z, then waiting a second, then typing the i, then z, and it shows up, usually after adding the i back in.     

So @Liz, then @L, then @Li, then @Liz if it doesn't show up by the time you add the i back in.  Doing it this way I've not had any issues, though it did take a while to figure it out at first.  

[maratsade]

@GabeU, my method is very similar, and though time consuming, it usually works.  But yesterday nothing worked.  Today it's working again (as long as i go very slowly and go back and forth with the letters,until it goes "Oh! You meant Liz!! But of course she's here!").

It's certainly quite the "eccentric" system.  🙂

[GabeU]

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@maratsade wrote:

@GabeU, my method is very similar, and though time consuming, it usually works.  But yesterday nothing worked.  Today it's working again (as long as i go very slowly and go back and forth with the letters,until it goes "Oh! You meant Liz!! But of course she's here!").

It's certainly quite the "eccentric" system.  🙂

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Maybe it was just working by the time I came on.  I was able to tag Liz a few times yesterday.