# Out of the office reply

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/out-of-the-office-reply/113440>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 4, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/out-of-the-office-reply/113440 "2019-04-04T13:10:34Z")\
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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:** [April 4, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/out-of-the-office-reply/113440/2 "2019-04-04T13:56:08Z")

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> [@Away from Discourse plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/away-from-discourse-plugin/88771/6):
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> Before going nuts here I would recommend building a much simpler plugin. One that adds “user defined status emoji” to all the places you see user avatars (cards / mentions / profile). Just exposing this would probably go an enormous distance in resolving the underlying issue here before going full on bulldozer. eg: instead of seeing @sam … you would see: @sam desert_island (when I eventually move to the desert island)

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