Out of the office reply

[Stephen]

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Away from Discourse plugin

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 (when I eventually move to the desert island)