Mentions without links should appear without the "@" prefix

When I write a post for multiple sites, I want it to appear as naturally as possible in each place.

I try to use mentions when I can, since that’s the “native” thing to do.

But when there is a mention that doesn’t correspond to an account on a site, it shows up as its plain text name with an “@” prefix. For example: “@Some Person”. This formatting, IMO, is entirely unnatural. I’d never personally author the text like that, so it discourages me from using mentions or JCP entirely.

If that “@” was removed, then I think everything would be dandy. I can write the person’s proper name as the Profile Name, and that would appear naturally in the post text.

Is this possible to do?

You could also leave a bit of hint text underneath the “Profile Name” field to say that is what will appear when no mention is available.

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Feature Request

ETA
Mar 05, 2025
Date

About 1 year ago

Author

Tim Riley

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