# Hoe weten gebruikers intuïtief hoe ze een categorie moeten vermelden?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-will-users-intuitively-know-how-to-mention-a-category/251664
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** hashtag-autocomplete
**Created:** [13 januari 2023 om 12:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-will-users-intuitively-know-how-to-mention-a-category/251664 "2023-01-13T12:04:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [13 januari 2023 om 12:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-will-users-intuitively-know-how-to-mention-a-category/251664/1 "2023-01-13T12:04:48Z")
I got a personal message from a user that asked me how I wrote such a thing: #Support.
That seems a very legitimate question since the `#` is no more displayed. They can’t deduce it from other users’ previous messages anymore.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [13 januari 2023 om 12:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-will-users-intuitively-know-how-to-mention-a-category/251664/2 "2023-01-13T12:10:09Z")
I think someone mentioned this in this topic as well the other day:
> [@Add color and subcategory styling to category and chat mentions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-color-and-subcategory-styling-to-category-and-chat-mentions/249643/8):
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> For what it’s worth, and feel free to call me old-school, but to me the new design lacks the # as a clear identifier of what it is that I’m looking at. The # is an obvious way to teach people how to create a link like that yourself, and you’ve removed it and replaced it with an icon that tells you more about the target, but less about the nature of the link.
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> I’d keep the # and add the icon to the end of the hashtag instead. This way you’ll be enhancing them without obscuring them.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [13 januari 2023 om 14:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-will-users-intuitively-know-how-to-mention-a-category/251664/3 "2023-01-13T14:30:22Z")
Yeah discoverability is a little bit of an issue, I think we eventually want to move to a consistent “one shortcut for everything” which we’ve seen in some other apps. So rather than having `@` `#` or `/` work for different things… we’d end up with one shortcut that can be used for users/categories/tags etc.
Google Docs is a good example… they use `@` and you can search for all types of things:
This could work for us, because mentioning people is fairly intuitive and common… so once you’ve done that you can discover all the other available functionality.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [13 januari 2023 om 14:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-will-users-intuitively-know-how-to-mention-a-category/251664/4 "2023-01-13T14:41:13Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> This could work for us
I agree. I would like to use #-sign but (hash)tags are really familiar to me. Ordinary Jane and John Does from social media background… not so much. Or they are misusing tags big time 😉
Could it be both, @ and #? I mean something similar how we can alter searching using `in:` etc — @ would be general one showing everything and # is limited to tags.