limit # of mentions in a single post

[barisusakli]

maybe no more than 5 allowed

NodeBB/NodeBB#4395

Please make sure you make this configurable if you implement it. If you reply to multiple posts at once or play forum games, you want to be able to mention more than 5 people at the same time. For example, in our mafia games, we need to be able to mention every single participating player in one post.

Also, I don't think the mentions are the actual root cause of the bug I reported. It seemed more like a bug with frontend rendering than the mentions themselves. Limiting the number of mentions doesn't actually fix the original bug, it's just a workaround which imposes unnecessary restrictions.

[julianlam]

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure this should be "resolved" in mentions, only since the rendering issue was due to the browser (maybe?) flipping it's tables.

Though in the above case with mafia, you'd probably want to put all of those users in a user group so they can be mentioned via a single tag.