@MizTanks (and others) - The company that made the script that we used for "Likes" went out of business and I don't have the software for our upgraded site.
The good news is, I have a replacement that I will be installing shortly that will import all of our old "likes" so we won't lose anything. The likes system will be available on CR for use with a browser.
Now here's the bad news, as of right now the new likes system isn't supported by tapatalk. However, I have talked with the developers and they have reached out to tapatalk to try to get incorporated into their software. Given that the company that tapatalk integrates with is no longer in business, my guess is this functionality will be added. But it may take some time.
I'm not sure what you mean by "@jimsflies isn't an option either". I don't use tapatalk very often so you might need to fill me in on this one... I mostly use it in a pinch when I have slow internet when I'm out and about.
Not sure I follow you, the idea of the mention is to let a user know they may be needed in a particular discussion thread.
We use mentions a lot in our meet and greet forum, to let the new member know there is a discussion thread where they are being talked about. Of course there are other reasons to, but I have noticed you using them there and would still encourage it, even though it doesn't make a link on tapatalk. (It may be possible to make that happen still, but the links IMO are secondary to the notification.)