# Mentioning problem with short usernames

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-problem-with-short-usernames/37170>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [27 Diciembre, 2015 11:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-problem-with-short-usernames/37170 "2015-12-27T11:17:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [6 Enero, 2016 17:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-problem-with-short-usernames/37170/7 "2016-01-06T17:53:26Z")

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I have tested against our largest instances and username autocomplete is super fast, especially on 1-letter username. What I am missing here?

Since we can’t use `SiteSettings` in the mention dialect, I pushed this fix to allow for any username length. It was limited to at least **2** characters before that. (cc @rumpelsepp)

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f654528aa464af268af6051e7699ba1eeee65cfb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f654528aa464af268af6051e7699ba1eeee65cfb)

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