Broken: Mentioning usernames that have spaces

Stephen Coles

When you type an “@” you get a popup menu with user suggestions. After selecting a user, the mention is written thusly: @Stephen Coles. This syntax doesn’t work. So, this is just a note that I am aware of this issue and reported it to Vanilla who is also aware of the issue and have it in their queue for fixing.

In the meantime you can make mentions work by removing the quotes and adding a “%20” between the words in a user name: @Stephen%20Coles

Stephen Coles

I just enabled the “Quote” button which will add a properly linked user name for you. This is not a complete fix for this issue, but it helps in the interim.

Stephen Coles

Hmm, it looks like they may have fixed this. At least the autosuggest syntax works now. But does it send folks a notification when they are mentioned? Let’s test:

CALLING @Jackson Cavanaugh @Nina Stössinger @Dyana Weissman @Marina Chaccur @James Todd @Ramiro Espinoza!!!

James Hultquist-Todd

Reporting in; seems to be working for me.

Dyana Weissman

Worked for me too

Stephen Coles

Ok, thanks!

Ramiro Espinoza

Now that I am back to my desktop I can confirm it too.