# Adding a “description” behavior on watched words

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-description-behavior-on-watched-words/294027
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** watched-words
**Created:** [November 14, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-description-behavior-on-watched-words/294027 "2022-11-14T12:38:03Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-description-behavior-on-watched-words/294027/1 "2022-11-14T12:38:03Z")

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Would adding a “description” behavior on watched words, such as:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/0/3/2035bd93f8c8e3d83a4c9b87f645a767d42fb677.gif)  
be a #pr-welcome?

I’ve started using linkification of some terms and acronyms on my forums, but I feel [it’s not the best solution](https://unicyclist.com/t/wiki-automatic-links-for-technical-terms-or-acronyms-we-need-your-ideas/276324/12?u=canapin), and I need more quick explanations of acronyms than links.

The best would be some sort of popup on hover (touch on tactile screens) with a very short description/explanation, _and_ an optional link, but I supposed that would be lot of work.

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My gif is using [GitHub - metabrainz/discourse-abbrify-words: Discourse theme component for automatically adding \<abbr\> to abbreviations and acronyms · GitHub](https://github.com/metabrainz/discourse-abbrify-words) which is heavily based on [GitHub - discourse/discourse-linkify-words: theme to auto linkify urls in discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-linkify-words).

Since abbrify-word isn’t actively maintainted, I can’t use it for my purpose.