Change mention from username to a name?

[OverseersMight]

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…

[Don]

Hello,

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

Full name @mentions

It would look more elegent in posts if @leo (for example) was presented as (or at least the user had the option to present it as) “Leo” or “Leo McArdle”.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

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.

[OverseersMight]

Any links to this plugin @pfaffman? I also found this,

Full name @mentions

@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 leading underscore means we probably shouldn’t override it? But it seems to work: [image] Perhaps there needs to be an entry point to optionally get the username from $target? Anyway, this was really a blocker from my POV to deploying to my wider community. Time to roll ahead

Which also seems to work.
Thank you for being such a great contributor to this community.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

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!