Clicking @user in post preview goes to new page, loses composed message

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  1. Go to a topic
  2. Reply to the first post.
  3. Type a message that @-mentions a user
  4. In the preview area, click the @user.

Instead of a pop-up being displayed, a new page request is made for the user’s profile.

After clicking the browser’s back button, the message that was being composed, may also be lost.

Discourse clicking @user doesn't pop up in post preview.gif1166×870 2.21 MB

I’ve been bitten by this while composing a long reply summarizing a few topics. Wanted to click on one of the users I’ve @-mentioned to make sure they hadn’t already addressed my reply with one of their posts.

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Hmm yeah that is pretty traumatic, see what we can do here @eviltrout my preference is to just ignore these clicks in the composer preview.

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Okay I’ve disabled clicking on stuff in the composer preview:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ed58a87616b34d947594b3281e3ab09e7bd6f318

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