Remove Mention and Tagging

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Title: How to Disable Mentions & Channel/Room Tag Suggestions (Autocomplete) in Rocket.Chat 7.10.0

Hi everyone,

I am running Rocket.Chat Community Edition 7.10.0 on a local server and I need to completely disable mentions and tagging, including:

  1. User mentions when typing @
  2. Channel / room suggestions when typing #
  3. @all and @here broadcast mentions

I have already removed the following permissions:

  • mention-all
  • mention-here

And I have disabled the following settings:

However, the popup suggestion box still appears whenever someone types @ or #, showing a list of users or channels. Users can still select them, and the text is still highlighted as a mention, even though notifications are reduced.

In our use case, we want no tagging at all. Messages should behave like plain text chat, without user linking or automatic mention formatting.

Question

Is there any server-side method to fully disable:

  • @username mention linking
  • #channel auto-suggestion popup
  • Highlight/mention formatting

Via any of the following:

  • Admin settings
  • Permissions
  • Environment variables
  • Layout customization
  • Custom scripts
  • CSS override
  • Or server code configuration

This is for a live user-facing chat, so mentions can cause user confusion, and we need to disable them cleanly and globally.

Any help, guidance, or confirmation whether this is currently possible would be appreciated.

Thanks! →