I am going to allow users to use ForceMentionsInContent MRF with Soapbox and then strip the mentions client-side. I wrapped the inlined mentions with a <span class="recipients-inline"> tag.
However, I noticed the formatting was quite off:
I properly formatted the mentions.
I also noticed it didn't work with local posts. The tag array was empty, even though to had recipients. The to array was also in the correct order. So I rewrote/simplified the code around the to field instead of tag. I think it will be higher performance, even if it excludes some users in rare cases.
Afterwards it works pretty well:
