# Highlighting current user and bots in posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-current-user-and-bots-in-posts/321851
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** feedback, design-experiment
**Created:** [August 15, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-current-user-and-bots-in-posts/321851 "2024-08-15T16:33:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-current-user-and-bots-in-posts/321851/1 "2024-08-15T16:33:52Z")

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Meta will soon be running an experiment where your own username and bots usernames are highlighted to stand out more in the content:

 ![Screenshot 2024-08-15 at 15.42.27](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/c/2/cc2357ee9864d8769729e58de63efa549e4af5ef.png)  
 ![Screenshot 2024-08-15 at 15.43.38](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/c/0/cc0bc727213e5dc24c8cff25331e2b763a306890.png)

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-current-user-and-bots-in-posts/321851/2 "2026-03-02T20:02:32Z")

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I think as a result of [FIX: dynamic highlighting of self mentions by dbattersby · Pull Request #37321 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37321) the highlighting worked not only on “real” @mentions, but also on the “fake” ones used in the #News and Events > Forum summaries.

For example:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/9/3/493cc4f0d1534d6f46148999abce3ccf5fa95f63.png)

> [@Daily Summary (1pm UTC)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-summary-1pm-utc/291852/214):
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> - @Moin (4 likes, 4 posts)

`<a class="mention" href="/u/moin">Moin</a>` works

Is it possible to make `<a class="mention" href="/u/Moin">Moin</a>` work too? Currently, that doesn’t work:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/5/0/850b2b3948969dadc8ab28dc843454a814e11ad2.png)

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### Author: ![davidb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/davidb/32/554671_2.png) [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-current-user-and-bots-in-posts/321851/4 "2026-03-19T18:00:35Z")

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It should be fixed with this commit: [FIX: mention highlighting with case insensitive usernames (#38718) · discourse/discourse@a5c7f6f · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a5c7f6fab012e07d574f11d3a5c4faa122fe869f)

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlighting-current-user-and-bots-in-posts/321851/5 "2026-03-19T18:04:41Z")

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Thank you

 ![Screenshot_20260319_190352_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/2/f/02fbb30f553f0a91dbe62f314151cd27aab7d902.jpeg)