# So, how is that @ thing supposed to work anyway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [January 10, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-is-that-thing-supposed-to-work-anyway/930206 "2021-01-10T21:33:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-is-that-thing-supposed-to-work-anyway/930206/6 "2021-01-11T00:01:18Z")
The username search is broken, there’s a big discussion of it in this thread: > [@How are people feeling about Discourse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428/104): > > What I’ve noticed when using the @ function is that it has priority problems and issues going past certain characters. If you just type @ by itself, it will show a list of people in the thread, which makes sense, as you’re most likely going to be pinging someone in the thread. But if you start typing any other letter, then it seems to completely forget that, and instead just goes through the entire list of members with names that start with those letters, stopping after it gets to a certain num… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-is-that-thing-supposed-to-work-anyway/930206)._