Mentions · Activity · durkk

Henry Wright replied to the topic How to make my site like Facebook in the forum Creating & Extending 11 years ago

Hi @julia_b

As @durkk mentioned, @-mentions work on username and not on display name. So going on what you have in the screenshot, sending a public message to @ Julia Buckley will actually send the message to a user with username @ Julia. This probably isn’t want you want.

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