# @ mention notifications months later

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mention-notifications-months-later/9527>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** web\
**Created:** [January 18, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mention-notifications-months-later/9527 "2020-01-18T01:16:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mention-notifications-months-later/9527/19 "2020-06-30T16:37:10Z")

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This is a known bug. Mentions only exist as updates, and updates get erased after about 3 months or so. So when a record with a mention gets saved, iNat looks to see if that user has already been updated about it, and if there’s no update, it makes a new one.

As to whether it’ll get fixed in the notifications revamp, I’m not sure. A fix would be to make mentions persist permanently in our database, so that would create a lot of new records.

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