Improvements to Mention functionality
There currently isn't an easy way of mentioning multiple people in a reply to a post in a thread.
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While it's possible to access a profile popup by clicking a user's avatar in a thread and clicking Mention there, it would perhaps be easier to have a "Mention " option in the ellipsis menu on the post itself.
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When mentioning people via the profile popup, it opens a modal for creating a new post. While this is one of the possible things a user could want when they click Mention, what I want in most cases is to include more than one person in a reply to a thread, because they're talking about the same thing.
Perhaps the behaviour of creating a new post could be kept when clicking Mention via the profile popup, whereas in the ellipsis menu, it could add that user to the reply you're currently writing. A possible complication is that you can currently have multiple replies open in a thread at the same time. (Is this something users actually need or want, by the way?)