How would I go about changing the appearance of a mention to be instead of @usernamefieldhere to @fullnamefieldhere. For example @OverseersMight would be @ John Doe. (If my name was john doe) Sorry for the mention john didn’t mean to mention you…

Any links to this plugin @pfaffman ? I also found this, [image] Full name @mentions feature @nachof I found a way to make it work: https://gist.github.com/jessicah/cd580bab64d89875a157579789b03511 by overriding _show() in component:user-card-contents. I’m guessing the leadi…

Hello, Currently there is no this kind of option in Discourse but maybe this topic could be helpful :arrow_down: [image] Full name @mentions feature It would look more elegent in posts if @leo (for example) was presented as (or at least the user had the option to present…

I think that if you don’t want people to use usernames then what your should do is get a plugin that makes the username be the same as first_last.

Wow. Looks cool. That’s a better solution than mine since it doesn’t require a non-existent plugin. I’m not very good at thinking of solutions that involve Ember/javascript. Good work!

Change mention from username to a name?

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Don August 22, 2021, 4:45am 2

Hello,

Currently there is no this kind of option in Discourse but maybe this topic could be helpful

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Change mention from username to a name?

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