Suggestion: Improved User Tagging in Conversations

Apologies if this is not the appropriate section—I wasn’t able to find a specific area for community or forum feature suggestions.

I’d like to suggest a potential enhancement to the user tagging functionality within conversations. In other forums, I’ve seen a helpful feature where typing @ in a reply brings up a list of users who have participated in the current conversation. This makes it much easier to accurately tag the intended person.

Currently, when I type @ and begin entering a username, I often encounter difficulties due to usernames with numbers, special characters, or similar spellings. I sometimes need to scroll back through the conversation to confirm the exact name, then return to my reply and retype it. This can be time-consuming and error-prone—especially when multiple users have similar names, or when several results appear (e.g., five instances of “Fred” - which may be some sort of bug, as users can't have the same username?)

By showing only the participants in the current conversation when @ is typed (before any additional characters are entered), it becomes significantly easier to select the correct person—particularly when the conversation includes just a few contributors. Once typing continues, the system could then default back to the full user search as it currently functions. This enhancement may contribute to users tagging other users more frequently too, if it's quicker and simpler to do.

I believe this could improve both the accuracy and efficiency of tagging, and would enhance the overall user experience. I hope this suggestion can be considered for future development.

Thank you!