# Slash preceeding an @mention does not generate usercard link
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/slash-preceeding-an-mention-does-not-generate-usercard-link/25979
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** user-card
**Created:** [4 Marzo, 2015 17:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slash-preceeding-an-mention-does-not-generate-usercard-link/25979 "2015-03-04T17:36:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@accalia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/accalia)
#### Post date: [4 Marzo, 2015 17:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slash-preceeding-an-mention-does-not-generate-usercard-link/25979/1 "2015-03-04T17:36:52Z")
A slash preceeding an @mention causes the markup for the user card link to not be generated.
Example:
@codinghorror/@sam
this should have generated two notifications, but only contain the usercard link for Jeff.
~~EDIT… of course it doesn’t do it here. works on [what.thedailywtf.com](http://what.thedailywtf.com) as well as try.d ([link while it lasts](http://try.discourse.org/t/testing-a-notification-bug/328))~~
EDIT2: nope. i just used the wrong slash.
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### Author:  [@accalia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/accalia)
#### Post date: [5 Marzo, 2015 02:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slash-preceeding-an-mention-does-not-generate-usercard-link/25979/2 "2015-03-05T02:46:39Z")
looks like quite a few chaacters also cause the bug:
> **[What the Daily WTF?](https://what.thedailywtf.com/login)**
for example these three constructs generated notifications, but are missing mention hyperlink in cooked:
this.looks.like.an.email.but.isnt@accalia.fakedomain
x@accalia
\_@accalia
```plaintext
this.looks.like.an.email.but.isnt@accalia.fakedomain
x@accalia
_@accalia
```
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [28 Mayo, 2015 05:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slash-preceeding-an-mention-does-not-generate-usercard-link/25979/3 "2015-05-28T05:49:40Z")
@eviltrout I think this is cause of
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/63f2187d72356dedc26d5e1d727580f2ba87b132](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/63f2187d72356dedc26d5e1d727580f2ba87b132)
But there may be other spots in the mention matcher as well that are causing this.
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### Author:  [@jamesgecko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamesgecko)
#### Post date: [16 Octubre, 2015 23:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slash-preceeding-an-mention-does-not-generate-usercard-link/25979/4 "2015-10-16T23:32:12Z")
I’ve put in a [pull request](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3859) that resolves the mention-after-a-slash case.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [7 Diciembre, 2015 12:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slash-preceeding-an-mention-does-not-generate-usercard-link/25979/5 "2015-12-07T12:22:49Z")