State of the comments

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Comments exist since Nextcloud 9 as a modular system with a public API, a database-backed implementation and a GUI app, and comments are exposed via WebDAV integration. Adoption is low because there are no mention notifications or autocomplete. A four-step plan adds UID-based mention notifications (first step nearly complete, PRs incoming), client-side UID→display-name replacement and editing, and finally autocomplete plus request-optimization to make commenting actually work for collaborative discussion.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:06History of Comments
3. 3:25Adoption of Comments
4. 4:274 Step Plan
5. 7:01Resources

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