@bh4-tech let me ask the Threads people about this. Seems like an odd omission.

@julian Have attached the link to the specific post here.

@bh4-tech hmm, looks like it's related to how Threads is processing the mention. They're not capturing the dash, so it could be the remote account still exists.

@julian The mastodon and pixelfed profile mentions work fine. I am attaching the screenshot of what opens when I click on the pixelfed profile link.

@bh4-tech interesting, since they don't look linked to me. However I don't have a Threads account, so I'm not logged in.

Can you screenshot your post?

@julian I guess it's not linked since you don't have account on threads. The screenshot is attached.

@bh4-tech can you test with another account with a dash? I wonder if it's capturing the bh4 because there is an Instagram account with that handle.

Also you know what it could be, is that this site is blocked by Threads, so that's why the link might not match.

@julian community.nodebb.org is blocked by threads but my nodebb instance isn't . For my nodebb server also, usernames with dash cannot be mentioned while others can be(screenshot attached).

Also, a dash in username doesn't look nice and we do not have much control over remote servers(like threads). So, please suggest me a way in which new users can be created with google-sso plugin without a dash.

@bh4-tech you will have to modify src/slugify.js so that the generated slug contains no dashes.

@julian Thanks, will try and let you know.