New Feature·Pushed May 1, 2026·S

Author bylines switched to plain @mentions

Story pages now display author names as plain @mentions instead of clickable links, standardizing how attribution appears across the site.

Author bylines on story pages are now plain text. Previously, when an author URL was available, their name rendered as a clickable link; otherwise it appeared as plain text. This conditional behavior has been removed. Author names across the site now consistently display with an @ prefix — matching the style popularized by social platforms like Twitter and GitHub. The change removes external link clutter from bylines, making attribution easier to scan without disrupting the reading flow.

Technical description

Two files received updates to standardize author display. In [[code ref=1]]StoryPage[[/code]], the conditional link logic was removed entirely. The original code checked [[code]]story.authorUrl[[/code]] and rendered either a linked or plain author name; now it simply displays [[code]]@{story.author}[[/code]]. In [[code ref=2]]PRFeedItem[[/code]], the same @ prefix was added to match the new convention. The [[code]]authorUrl[[/code]] field and its associated link rendering are now dead code on the story detail page — available in the data layer but no longer consumed by the UI.