# Automatically update @mentions after renaming a group
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-update-mentions-after-renaming-a-group/84222
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [30.Март.2018 12:24:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-update-mentions-after-renaming-a-group/84222 "2018-03-30T12:24:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [30.Март.2018 12:24:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-update-mentions-after-renaming-a-group/84222/1 "2018-03-30T12:24:32Z")
I’ve been talking about getting groups going on our site for an embarrassingly long time now, but we’re finally doing it. At least, I publicly committed to it 3 weeks ago on our forum. One thing that was giving me a bit of anxiety was trying to establish some good naming conventions up front so we can have some more consistency and discoverability.
I was under the impression that if I were to choose a name like `@foo` and then later rename the group to `@bar` that it would break all previous mentions of that group.
~~But I just tested this out and it seemed to work.~~
1. I created a group named `@foo` and made it mentionable
2. I created a post and mentioned `@foo` within the post
3. I changed the group name from `@foo` to `@bar`
4. ~~I went back to my post and was pleasantly surprised to see that `@bar` now showed up and went to the same group when I clicked it.~~ Hmm… I can’t reproduce this anymore… the post still says `@foo` and is a broken link.
I’m still not quite over my anxiety though given the past conversations here about the difficulty of not breaking mentions when renaming users.
So help me out - is the existence of this feature for updating group mentions automatically on renames something I should believe in? Or did my eyes just play tricks on me?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [30.Март.2018 12:30:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-update-mentions-after-renaming-a-group/84222/2 "2018-03-30T12:30:48Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> So help me out - is the existence of this feature for updating group mentions automatically on renames something I should believe in? Or did my eyes just play tricks on me?
Hmm… now I can’t reproduce that anymore… maybe I didn’t do what I thought I did the first time? It looks like mentions do not get automatically updated on group renames ☹
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [30.Март.2018 12:51:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-update-mentions-after-renaming-a-group/84222/4 "2018-03-30T12:51:38Z")
Предполагаю, что это очень похоже на обновление упоминаний пользователей. Поскольку я работаю над этим, я также посмотрю на группы.
Изменение: когда имя группы изменяется, все упоминания этой группы на форуме также изменяются, точно так же, как и с именами пользователей.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [20.Март.2026 01:37:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-update-mentions-after-renaming-a-group/84222/5 "2026-03-20T01:37:10Z")