Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25646419-20170605012730/@comment-25646419-20170605044014

Another neat thing: "One notification type we’ll be adding is support for user @mentions. While the conversation inside of Discussions will be fully public, this will facilitate notifying specific users about a conversation they might be interested in."

I'm going to send in a request. No one is forced to use it! Let's just see what we can do with it, since all forums will eventually be replaced with Discusions for each Wiki.