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over 2 years ago - /u/JagexHusky - Direct link

The shortcut is technically "/i " and not "/i" which is where the issue is happening. This is consistent with how clans are. The issue is mostly just that more sentences start with I as it's a word as opposed to C, G and F which are not.

Happy to change the prefix with next weeks update if it's an inconvenience, which prefix would you like to see used instead?

over 2 years ago - /u/JagexHusky - Direct link

Originally posted by nickmiless

Thanks for the response!

I think most letters that aren't commonly used at the start of sentences could work, some suggestions.

  • Q
  • O
  • J
  • H

Other letters that might not work

  • U (for those that might use 'U' instead of 'You'
  • Y (for those that might use 'Y' instead of 'Why'

Etc.

While any other letter not in use could work one of the issues we might run into is a letter which "feels correct" based on the context of the channel.

For example:

/f - Friends chat (now called channel) makes sense /c - Clan chat /g - Guest clan chat /p - Public chat

I chose /i for "Iron Group" chat and I can't use /g since it's used for guest clan chat currently and I wanted minimal disruption to shortcuts people are used to using. I don't see a good solution unless we accept that the letter has no correlation to the tab itself