Chat announcements not converting mentions (@<user>) to link

Chat and IRC
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Hi All,

Making sure I’m not doing something wrong here, but is it by design that we’re not able to tag/mention users in announcements (/announce) ? One would think that should work just like chat, but when I try to mention someone in an announcement the name just gets converted to plain text without any hover/link functionality to allow people to view their channel.

Please let me know if I’m doing something wrong.

Thank you!
Bill

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Neither of these are clickable in vanilla chat, but do draw a “metion” box

Shoulds like you refer to a browser plugin functionality and not vanilla/first party functionality? (BTTV/FFZ/7tv for example)

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Hey Barry! Yeah - I just realized my thinking here was flawed. For some reason I was very certain that vanilla chat changed mentions to hyperlinks to allow people to follow, but I was totally wrong lol. I’ll close my ticket :wink: