Haha, one reason is to make it optional when you mention someone if you want it to notify the person or not. Clients can decide whether they place mentions into the tags field or if they leave them inline. And particularly for DMs to avoid the mentions being leaked to the public they should stay inline
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ah got it, although not sure what the ui for that would be 🤔
Yeah I think clients should pick a default for now and worry about that later. But at the very least it will improve the privacy of DMs
In your DM code you will now be able to have a different render_blocks() function that makes the mentions inline and doesn’t put them into the tags field without it looking any different to the user
Yeah would be definitely handy for DMs, I was going to do an ad-hoc fix but this seems better