# \`@mention\` not working

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-not-working/154251
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 9, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-not-working/154251 "2020-06-09T00:38:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Joaquin\_Menchacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joaquin_menchacha/32/139647_2.png) [@Joaquin\_Menchacha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joaquin_Menchacha)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-not-working/154251/1 "2020-06-09T00:38:14Z")

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Recently after upgrading to ` 2.5.0.beta6`, we noticed some problems with the `@mentions` feature.

The popup list of users does not always show. I had this reproduce consistently by typing a single character. I have to hit back space and type the same letter(s) to get a list to appear, e.g.

```plaintext
@b<backspace>b

```

This gave me a list of 6 users.

I am not sure if this is related, I also noticed that if I queried the users with curl and grep’d for username, I found 8 users starting with b, more than 6 in the UI. Example query:

```bash
curl -s -X GET "https://discuss.dgraph.io/admin/users/list/users.json" \
   -H "Api-Key: $API_KEY" \
   -H "Api-Username: $API_USR" | jq '.[].username' -r | grep -i '^b.*'

```

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-not-working/154251/2 "2020-06-09T01:30:55Z")

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Are you seeing any errors in the browser console?

I believe six is the limit, at least on mobile. Even here on meta autocomplete only shows me six choices.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-not-working/154251/3 "2020-06-09T03:00:18Z")

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There was a temporary regression on mention pop ups related to debouncing changes so be sure you update to latest.