<h2 id="december-2019">
  December 2019
  <span id="authors">by @Bauke</span>
</h2>

### The Slow Month

As the year comes to a close and everybody slows down a little during the holiday season, so does Tildes. Most of the work done this month has been [upgrading versions](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/compare/5c1cf3975d109fa742608c169279675fc6850e3f...fb7b0cb47319ed174a5a9a3b347b7b06530a49d1), [adding](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/commit/39449dd776239c50e93b247ddb7d5e762216c369) [more](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/commit/59699427fded6a9dd1ee056304be6de64b6eb42d) [metadata](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/commit/7e5aa833aecddceee798771c93b7d5c927b08616) and some small [UI changes](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/compare/005684a8db546180ed776c61c52422658aac8435...ef9a3622973a19e41be022a9da1d1be0be814f58).

However, that's not all as there were also 2 open-source contributions:

* User mentions (like @Tildes) can now be escaped using `\` so you can do `\@Tildes` and it won't create a link + notification for that. And instead just leave it as regular text. (Although it appears to [not be working](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues/622) at the moment). This change was done by [Timo on GitLab](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/merge_requests/85).
* `/r/...` will now get linkified and point to the specified subreddit, so `/r/tildes` will become [/r/tildes](https://reddit.com/r/tildes). This feature was implemented by [yabai on GitLab](https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/merge_requests/87).
