# Does notifications work if you add a @mention via editing?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-notifications-work-if-you-add-a-mention-via-editing/54037>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 9, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-notifications-work-if-you-add-a-mention-via-editing/54037 "2016-12-09T20:03:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Rob\_Nicholson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rob_nicholson/32/63483_2.png) [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-notifications-work-if-you-add-a-mention-via-editing/54037/1 "2016-12-09T20:03:41Z")

</div>

Guess I could test this on a live system but what happens if you post a topic and then edit it to include some more @usernames? Does the system send the notifications just to the new username added?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-notifications-work-if-you-add-a-mention-via-editing/54037)._