# When changing username, it should update mentions in the user's own posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 20, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372 "2023-01-20T00:53:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@traceymoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/traceymoko)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372/1 "2023-01-20T00:53:15Z")
## Description
### Context
When you change the username of a user (e.g. userA to userB), it updates all the @mentions of their username to avoid broken mentions.
@userA → @userB
### Problem
However, it doesn’t seem to update the mentions in the user’s own posts. If userA has a post containing @userA, it doesn’t change that to @userB when their username is changed.
It does update the mentions correctly in other users’ posts.
This also applies when they have been anonymised — the @mentions in their own posts display their original username, while mentions in others’ posts have the new anonymised username.
## Steps to Reproduce
1. Have a user make posts mentioning their own username
2. Change their username or anonymise the user
### Expected
@mentions of their username are updated in their own posts, to reflect the new username
### Actual
@mentions of their username are not updated in their own posts, and stay as the old username
## Extra comments
It’s relatively common enough for users in our forum to refer to themselves in third person (e.g. “you can tag @traceymoko if you have questions”)
You can see other examples here:
[https://forum.gethopscotch.com/t/tagging-yourself-it-does-not-update-what-the-goigly/65317](https://forum.gethopscotch.com/t/tagging-yourself-it-does-not-update-what-the-goigly/65317)
I’m not sure if the @mentions are registered only when other people make the mentions, but I suspect that might be the case. Feel free to set the category depending on whether this behaviour is intended or not — either bug or feature request.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2023, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372/2 "2023-01-20T10:18:17Z")
That’s an interesting one. 🙂
I can confirm that I am also seeing this behaviour:
Let me see what I can find out. 👍
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372/8 "2023-01-20T10:53:28Z")
Thank you @traceymoko for your excellent bug report 👏
It’s definitely an edge case we hadn’t considered and we’ll get it fixed.
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### Author:  [@selase](https://meta.discourse.org/u/selase)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2023, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372/16 "2023-02-06T10:41:32Z")
@traceymoko Thanks for the detailed report. This has been fixed.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20071](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20071)
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### Author:  [@traceymoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/traceymoko)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372/17 "2023-02-08T01:30:25Z")
Thank you so much! Just wanted to say thanks to our users for posting about this too – I just collated the information.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-changing-username-it-should-update-mentions-in-the-users-own-posts/252372/18 "2023-02-09T10:42:50Z")
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