diff --git a/lib/shared/mention-utils.js b/lib/shared/mention-utils.js
index e3d7fb415..053729ca4 100644
--- a/lib/shared/mention-utils.js
+++ b/lib/shared/mention-utils.js
@@ -1,160 +1,184 @@
 // @flow
 
 import { oldValidUsernameRegexString } from './account-utils.js';
 import SentencePrefixSearchIndex from './sentence-prefix-search-index.js';
 import { threadOtherMembers, chatNameMaxLength } from './thread-utils.js';
 import { stringForUserExplicit } from './user-utils.js';
 import { threadTypes } from '../types/thread-types-enum.js';
-import {
-  type ThreadInfo,
-  type RelativeMemberInfo,
-  type ResolvedThreadInfo,
+import type {
+  ThreadInfo,
+  RelativeMemberInfo,
+  ResolvedThreadInfo,
+  ChatMentionCandidates,
 } from '../types/thread-types.js';
 import { idSchemaRegex } from '../utils/validation-utils.js';
 
 export type TypeaheadMatchedStrings = {
   +textBeforeAtSymbol: string,
   +query: string,
 };
 
 export type Selection = {
   +start: number,
   +end: number,
 };
 
 type MentionTypeaheadUserSuggestionItem = {
   +type: 'user',
   +userInfo: RelativeMemberInfo,
 };
 
 type MentionTypeaheadChatSuggestionItem = {
   +type: 'chat',
   +threadInfo: ResolvedThreadInfo,
 };
 
 export type MentionTypeaheadSuggestionItem =
   | MentionTypeaheadUserSuggestionItem
   | MentionTypeaheadChatSuggestionItem;
 
 export type TypeaheadTooltipActionItem<SuggestionItemType> = {
   +key: string,
   +execute: () => mixed,
   +actionButtonContent: SuggestionItemType,
 };
 
 // The simple-markdown package already breaks words out for us, and we are
 // supposed to only match when the first word of the input matches
 const markdownUserMentionRegex: RegExp = new RegExp(
   `^(@(${oldValidUsernameRegexString}))\\b`,
 );
 
 function isUserMentioned(username: string, text: string): boolean {
   return new RegExp(`\\B@${username}\\b`, 'i').test(text);
 }
 
 const userMentionsExtractionRegex = new RegExp(
   `\\B(@(${oldValidUsernameRegexString}))\\b`,
   'g',
 );
 
 const chatMentionRegexString = `^(?<!\\\\)(@\\[\\[(${idSchemaRegex}):(.{1,${chatNameMaxLength}}?)(?<!\\\\)\\]\\])`;
 const chatMentionRegex: RegExp = new RegExp(chatMentionRegexString);
 
 function encodeChatMentionText(text: string): string {
   return text.replace(/]/g, '\\]');
 }
 
 function decodeChatMentionText(text: string): string {
   return text.replace(/\\]/g, ']');
 }
 
 function getRawChatMention(threadInfo: ResolvedThreadInfo): string {
   return `@[[${threadInfo.id}:${encodeChatMentionText(threadInfo.uiName)}]]`;
 }
 
 function extractUserMentionsFromText(text: string): string[] {
   const iterator = text.matchAll(userMentionsExtractionRegex);
   return [...iterator].map(matches => matches[2]);
 }
 
 function getTypeaheadRegexMatches(
   text: string,
   selection: Selection,
   regex: RegExp,
 ): null | RegExp$matchResult {
   if (
     selection.start === selection.end &&
     (selection.start === text.length || /\s/.test(text[selection.end]))
   ) {
     return text.slice(0, selection.start).match(regex);
   }
   return null;
 }
 
 function getMentionTypeaheadUserSuggestions(
   userSearchIndex: SentencePrefixSearchIndex,
   threadMembers: $ReadOnlyArray<RelativeMemberInfo>,
   viewerID: ?string,
   usernamePrefix: string,
 ): $ReadOnlyArray<MentionTypeaheadUserSuggestionItem> {
   const userIDs = userSearchIndex.getSearchResults(usernamePrefix);
   const usersInThread = threadOtherMembers(threadMembers, viewerID);
 
   return usersInThread
     .filter(user => usernamePrefix.length === 0 || userIDs.includes(user.id))
     .sort((userA, userB) =>
       stringForUserExplicit(userA).localeCompare(stringForUserExplicit(userB)),
     )
     .map(userInfo => ({ type: 'user', userInfo }));
 }
 
+function getMentionTypeaheadChatSuggestions(
+  chatSearchIndex: SentencePrefixSearchIndex,
+  chatMentionCandidates: ChatMentionCandidates,
+  chatNamePrefix: string,
+): $ReadOnlyArray<MentionTypeaheadChatSuggestionItem> {
+  const result = [];
+  const threadIDs =
+    chatNamePrefix.length === 0
+      ? chatSearchIndex.entries
+      : chatSearchIndex.getSearchResults(chatNamePrefix);
+  for (const threadID of threadIDs) {
+    if (!chatMentionCandidates[threadID]) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    result.push({
+      type: 'chat',
+      threadInfo: chatMentionCandidates[threadID],
+    });
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
 function getNewTextAndSelection(
   textBeforeAtSymbol: string,
   entireText: string,
   query: string,
   suggestionText: string,
 ): {
   newText: string,
   newSelectionStart: number,
 } {
   const totalMatchLength = textBeforeAtSymbol.length + query.length + 1; // 1 for @ char
 
   let newSuffixText = entireText.slice(totalMatchLength);
   newSuffixText = (newSuffixText[0] !== ' ' ? ' ' : '') + newSuffixText;
 
   const newText = textBeforeAtSymbol + suggestionText + newSuffixText;
 
   const newSelectionStart = newText.length - newSuffixText.length + 1;
 
   return { newText, newSelectionStart };
 }
 
 function getUserMentionsCandidates(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   parentThreadInfo: ?ThreadInfo,
 ): $ReadOnlyArray<RelativeMemberInfo> {
   if (threadInfo.type !== threadTypes.SIDEBAR) {
     return threadInfo.members;
   }
   if (parentThreadInfo) {
     return parentThreadInfo.members;
   }
   // This scenario should not occur unless the user logs out while looking at a
   // sidebar. In that scenario, the Redux store may be cleared before ReactNav
   // finishes transitioning away from the previous screen
   return [];
 }
 
 export {
   markdownUserMentionRegex,
   isUserMentioned,
   extractUserMentionsFromText,
   getMentionTypeaheadUserSuggestions,
+  getMentionTypeaheadChatSuggestions,
   getNewTextAndSelection,
   getTypeaheadRegexMatches,
   getUserMentionsCandidates,
   chatMentionRegex,
   encodeChatMentionText,
   decodeChatMentionText,
   getRawChatMention,
 };
diff --git a/lib/shared/thread-utils.js b/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
index 715d8f9d8..4cb0e88d5 100644
--- a/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
+++ b/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
@@ -1,1974 +1,1975 @@
 // @flow
 
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 import _find from 'lodash/fp/find.js';
 import _mapValues from 'lodash/fp/mapValues.js';
 import _omitBy from 'lodash/fp/omitBy.js';
 import * as React from 'react';
 
 import { generatePendingThreadColor } from './color-utils.js';
 import { type ParserRules } from './markdown.js';
 import { extractUserMentionsFromText } from './mention-utils.js';
 import { getMessageTitle, isInvalidSidebarSource } from './message-utils.js';
 import { relationshipBlockedInEitherDirection } from './relationship-utils.js';
 import threadWatcher from './thread-watcher.js';
 import {
   fetchMostRecentMessagesActionTypes,
   fetchMostRecentMessages,
 } from '../actions/message-actions.js';
 import {
   changeThreadMemberRolesActionTypes,
   newThreadActionTypes,
   removeUsersFromThreadActionTypes,
 } from '../actions/thread-actions.js';
 import { searchUsers as searchUserCall } from '../actions/user-actions.js';
 import ashoat from '../facts/ashoat.js';
 import genesis from '../facts/genesis.js';
 import { useLoggedInUserInfo } from '../hooks/account-hooks.js';
 import {
   permissionLookup,
   getAllThreadPermissions,
   makePermissionsBlob,
 } from '../permissions/thread-permissions.js';
 import type {
   ChatThreadItem,
   ChatMessageInfoItem,
 } from '../selectors/chat-selectors.js';
 import { useGlobalThreadSearchIndex } from '../selectors/nav-selectors.js';
 import {
   threadInfoSelector,
   pendingToRealizedThreadIDsSelector,
   threadInfosSelectorForThreadType,
 } from '../selectors/thread-selectors.js';
 import {
   getRelativeMemberInfos,
   usersWithPersonalThreadSelector,
 } from '../selectors/user-selectors.js';
 import { getUserAvatarForThread } from '../shared/avatar-utils.js';
 import SentencePrefixSearchIndex from '../shared/sentence-prefix-search-index.js';
 import type { CalendarQuery } from '../types/entry-types.js';
 import { messageTypes } from '../types/message-types-enum.js';
 import {
   type RobotextMessageInfo,
   type ComposableMessageInfo,
 } from '../types/message-types.js';
 import { userRelationshipStatus } from '../types/relationship-types.js';
 import {
   threadPermissionPropagationPrefixes,
   threadPermissions,
   configurableCommunityPermissions,
   type ThreadPermission,
   type ThreadPermissionsInfo,
   type UserSurfacedPermission,
 } from '../types/thread-permission-types.js';
 import {
   type ThreadType,
   threadTypes,
   threadTypeIsCommunityRoot,
   assertThreadType,
 } from '../types/thread-types-enum.js';
 import {
   type RawThreadInfo,
   type ThreadInfo,
   type MemberInfo,
   type ServerThreadInfo,
   type RelativeMemberInfo,
   type ThreadCurrentUserInfo,
   type RoleInfo,
   type ServerMemberInfo,
   type ClientNewThreadRequest,
   type NewThreadResult,
   type ChangeThreadSettingsPayload,
   type ResolvedThreadInfo,
   type ChatMentionCandidatesObj,
   type ChatMentionCandidates,
   type UserProfileThreadInfo,
 } from '../types/thread-types.js';
 import { updateTypes } from '../types/update-types-enum.js';
 import { type ClientUpdateInfo } from '../types/update-types.js';
 import type {
   GlobalAccountUserInfo,
   UserInfos,
   AccountUserInfo,
   LoggedInUserInfo,
   UserInfo,
 } from '../types/user-types.js';
 import {
   useDispatchActionPromise,
   useServerCall,
 } from '../utils/action-utils.js';
 import type { DispatchActionPromise } from '../utils/action-utils.js';
 import type { GetENSNames } from '../utils/ens-helpers.js';
 import { useResolvedThreadInfosObj } from '../utils/entity-helpers.js';
 import {
   ET,
   entityTextToRawString,
   getEntityTextAsString,
   type ThreadEntity,
 } from '../utils/entity-text.js';
 import { useSelector } from '../utils/redux-utils.js';
 import { firstLine } from '../utils/string-utils.js';
 import { trimText } from '../utils/text-utils.js';
 import { pendingThreadIDRegex } from '../utils/validation-utils.js';
 
 const chatNameMaxLength = 191;
 const chatNameMinLength = 0;
 const secondCharRange = `{${chatNameMinLength},${chatNameMaxLength}}`;
-const validChatNameRegexString = `^.${secondCharRange}$`;
-const validChatNameRegex: RegExp = new RegExp(validChatNameRegexString);
+const validChatNameRegexString = `.${secondCharRange}`;
+const validChatNameRegex: RegExp = new RegExp(`^${validChatNameRegexString}$`);
 
 function threadHasPermission(
   threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo),
   permission: ThreadPermission,
 ): boolean {
   if (!threadInfo) {
     return false;
   }
   invariant(
     !permissionsDisabledByBlock.has(permission) || threadInfo?.uiName,
     `${permission} can be disabled by a block, but threadHasPermission can't ` +
       'check for a block on RawThreadInfo. Please pass in ThreadInfo instead!',
   );
   if (!threadInfo.currentUser.permissions[permission]) {
     return false;
   }
   return threadInfo.currentUser.permissions[permission].value;
 }
 
 function viewerIsMember(threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo)): boolean {
   return !!(
     threadInfo &&
     threadInfo.currentUser.role !== null &&
     threadInfo.currentUser.role !== undefined
   );
 }
 
 function threadIsInHome(threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo)): boolean {
   return !!(threadInfo && threadInfo.currentUser.subscription.home);
 }
 
 // Can have messages
 function threadInChatList(threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo)): boolean {
   return (
     viewerIsMember(threadInfo) &&
     threadHasPermission(threadInfo, threadPermissions.VISIBLE)
   );
 }
 
 function threadIsTopLevel(threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo)): boolean {
   return threadInChatList(threadInfo) && threadIsChannel(threadInfo);
 }
 
 function threadIsChannel(threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo)): boolean {
   return !!(threadInfo && threadInfo.type !== threadTypes.SIDEBAR);
 }
 
 function threadIsSidebar(threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo)): boolean {
   return threadInfo?.type === threadTypes.SIDEBAR;
 }
 
 function threadInBackgroundChatList(
   threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo),
 ): boolean {
   return threadInChatList(threadInfo) && !threadIsInHome(threadInfo);
 }
 
 function threadInHomeChatList(
   threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo),
 ): boolean {
   return threadInChatList(threadInfo) && threadIsInHome(threadInfo);
 }
 
 // Can have Calendar entries,
 // does appear as a top-level entity in the thread list
 function threadInFilterList(
   threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo),
 ): boolean {
   return (
     threadInChatList(threadInfo) &&
     !!threadInfo &&
     threadInfo.type !== threadTypes.SIDEBAR
   );
 }
 
 function userIsMember(
   threadInfo: ?(ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo),
   userID: string,
 ): boolean {
   if (!threadInfo) {
     return false;
   }
   if (threadInfo.id === genesis.id) {
     return true;
   }
   return threadInfo.members.some(member => member.id === userID && member.role);
 }
 
 function threadActualMembers(
   memberInfos: $ReadOnlyArray<MemberInfo | RelativeMemberInfo>,
 ): $ReadOnlyArray<string> {
   return memberInfos
     .filter(memberInfo => memberInfo.role)
     .map(memberInfo => memberInfo.id);
 }
 
 function threadOtherMembers<T: MemberInfo | RelativeMemberInfo>(
   memberInfos: $ReadOnlyArray<T>,
   viewerID: ?string,
 ): $ReadOnlyArray<T> {
   return memberInfos.filter(
     memberInfo => memberInfo.role && memberInfo.id !== viewerID,
   );
 }
 
 function threadMembersWithoutAddedAshoat<T: ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo>(
   threadInfo: T,
 ): $PropertyType<T, 'members'> {
   if (threadInfo.community !== genesis.id) {
     return threadInfo.members;
   }
   return threadInfo.members.filter(
     member => member.id !== ashoat.id || member.role,
   );
 }
 
 function threadIsGroupChat(threadInfo: ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo): boolean {
   return (
     threadMembersWithoutAddedAshoat(threadInfo).filter(
       member =>
         member.role || member.permissions[threadPermissions.VOICED]?.value,
     ).length > 2
   );
 }
 
 function threadOrParentThreadIsGroupChat(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
 ) {
   return threadMembersWithoutAddedAshoat(threadInfo).length > 2;
 }
 
 function threadIsPending(threadID: ?string): boolean {
   return !!threadID?.startsWith('pending');
 }
 
 function threadIsPendingSidebar(threadID: ?string): boolean {
   return !!threadID?.startsWith('pending/sidebar/');
 }
 
 function getSingleOtherUser(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo,
   viewerID: ?string,
 ): ?string {
   if (!viewerID) {
     return undefined;
   }
   const otherMembers = threadOtherMembers(threadInfo.members, viewerID);
   if (otherMembers.length !== 1) {
     return undefined;
   }
   return otherMembers[0].id;
 }
 
 function getPendingThreadID(
   threadType: ThreadType,
   memberIDs: $ReadOnlyArray<string>,
   sourceMessageID: ?string,
 ): string {
   const pendingThreadKey = sourceMessageID
     ? `sidebar/${sourceMessageID}`
     : [...memberIDs].sort().join('+');
   const pendingThreadTypeString = sourceMessageID ? '' : `type${threadType}/`;
   return `pending/${pendingThreadTypeString}${pendingThreadKey}`;
 }
 
 type PendingThreadIDContents = {
   +threadType: ThreadType,
   +memberIDs: $ReadOnlyArray<string>,
   +sourceMessageID: ?string,
 };
 
 function parsePendingThreadID(
   pendingThreadID: string,
 ): ?PendingThreadIDContents {
   const pendingRegex = new RegExp(`^${pendingThreadIDRegex}$`);
   const pendingThreadIDMatches = pendingRegex.exec(pendingThreadID);
   if (!pendingThreadIDMatches) {
     return null;
   }
   const [threadTypeString, threadKey] = pendingThreadIDMatches[1].split('/');
   const threadType =
     threadTypeString === 'sidebar'
       ? threadTypes.SIDEBAR
       : assertThreadType(Number(threadTypeString.replace('type', '')));
   const memberIDs = threadTypeString === 'sidebar' ? [] : threadKey.split('+');
   const sourceMessageID = threadTypeString === 'sidebar' ? threadKey : null;
   return {
     threadType,
     memberIDs,
     sourceMessageID,
   };
 }
 
 type UserIDAndUsername = {
   +id: string,
   +username: string,
   ...
 };
 type CreatePendingThreadArgs = {
   +viewerID: string,
   +threadType: ThreadType,
   +members: $ReadOnlyArray<UserIDAndUsername>,
   +parentThreadInfo?: ?ThreadInfo,
   +threadColor?: ?string,
   +name?: ?string,
   +sourceMessageID?: string,
 };
 
 function createPendingThread({
   viewerID,
   threadType,
   members,
   parentThreadInfo,
   threadColor,
   name,
   sourceMessageID,
 }: CreatePendingThreadArgs): ThreadInfo {
   const now = Date.now();
   if (!members.some(member => member.id === viewerID)) {
     throw new Error(
       'createPendingThread should be called with the viewer as a member',
     );
   }
 
   const memberIDs = members.map(member => member.id);
   const threadID = getPendingThreadID(threadType, memberIDs, sourceMessageID);
 
   const permissions = {
     [threadPermissions.KNOW_OF]: true,
     [threadPermissions.VISIBLE]: true,
     [threadPermissions.VOICED]: true,
   };
 
   const membershipPermissions = getAllThreadPermissions(
     makePermissionsBlob(permissions, null, threadID, threadType),
     threadID,
   );
   const role = {
     id: `${threadID}/role`,
     name: 'Members',
     permissions,
     isDefault: true,
   };
 
   const rawThreadInfo = {
     id: threadID,
     type: threadType,
     name: name ?? null,
     description: null,
     color: threadColor ?? generatePendingThreadColor(memberIDs),
     creationTime: now,
     parentThreadID: parentThreadInfo?.id ?? null,
     containingThreadID: getContainingThreadID(parentThreadInfo, threadType),
     community: getCommunity(parentThreadInfo),
     members: members.map(member => ({
       id: member.id,
       role: role.id,
       permissions: membershipPermissions,
       isSender: false,
     })),
     roles: {
       [role.id]: role,
     },
     currentUser: {
       role: role.id,
       permissions: membershipPermissions,
       subscription: {
         pushNotifs: false,
         home: false,
       },
       unread: false,
     },
     repliesCount: 0,
     sourceMessageID,
     pinnedCount: 0,
   };
 
   const userInfos = {};
   for (const member of members) {
     const { id, username } = member;
     userInfos[id] = { id, username };
   }
 
   return threadInfoFromRawThreadInfo(rawThreadInfo, viewerID, userInfos);
 }
 
 type PendingPersonalThread = {
   +threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   +pendingPersonalThreadUserInfo: UserInfo,
 };
 
 function createPendingPersonalThread(
   loggedInUserInfo: LoggedInUserInfo,
   userID: string,
   username: string,
 ): PendingPersonalThread {
   const pendingPersonalThreadUserInfo = {
     id: userID,
     username: username,
   };
 
   const threadInfo = createPendingThread({
     viewerID: loggedInUserInfo.id,
     threadType: threadTypes.PERSONAL,
     members: [loggedInUserInfo, pendingPersonalThreadUserInfo],
   });
 
   return { threadInfo, pendingPersonalThreadUserInfo };
 }
 
 function createPendingThreadItem(
   loggedInUserInfo: LoggedInUserInfo,
   user: UserIDAndUsername,
 ): ChatThreadItem {
   const { threadInfo, pendingPersonalThreadUserInfo } =
     createPendingPersonalThread(loggedInUserInfo, user.id, user.username);
 
   return {
     type: 'chatThreadItem',
     threadInfo,
     mostRecentMessageInfo: null,
     mostRecentNonLocalMessage: null,
     lastUpdatedTime: threadInfo.creationTime,
     lastUpdatedTimeIncludingSidebars: threadInfo.creationTime,
     sidebars: [],
     pendingPersonalThreadUserInfo,
   };
 }
 
 // Returns map from lowercase username to AccountUserInfo
 function memberLowercaseUsernameMap(
   members: $ReadOnlyArray<RelativeMemberInfo>,
 ): Map<string, AccountUserInfo> {
   const memberMap = new Map();
   for (const member of members) {
     const { id, role, username } = member;
     if (!role || !username) {
       continue;
     }
     memberMap.set(username.toLowerCase(), { id, username });
   }
   return memberMap;
 }
 
 // Returns map from user ID to AccountUserInfo
 function extractMentionedMembers(
   text: string,
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 ): Map<string, AccountUserInfo> {
   const memberMap = memberLowercaseUsernameMap(threadInfo.members);
   const mentions = extractUserMentionsFromText(text);
 
   const mentionedMembers = new Map();
   for (const mention of mentions) {
     const userInfo = memberMap.get(mention.toLowerCase());
     if (userInfo) {
       mentionedMembers.set(userInfo.id, userInfo);
     }
   }
   return mentionedMembers;
 }
 
 // When a member of the parent is mentioned in a sidebar,
 // they will be automatically added to that sidebar
 function extractNewMentionedParentMembers(
   messageText: string,
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   parentThreadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 ): AccountUserInfo[] {
   const mentionedMembersOfParent = extractMentionedMembers(
     messageText,
     parentThreadInfo,
   );
   for (const member of threadInfo.members) {
     if (member.role) {
       mentionedMembersOfParent.delete(member.id);
     }
   }
   return [...mentionedMembersOfParent.values()];
 }
 
 type SharedCreatePendingSidebarInput = {
   +sourceMessageInfo: ComposableMessageInfo | RobotextMessageInfo,
   +parentThreadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   +loggedInUserInfo: LoggedInUserInfo,
 };
 
 type BaseCreatePendingSidebarInput = {
   ...SharedCreatePendingSidebarInput,
   +messageTitle: string,
 };
 function baseCreatePendingSidebar(
   input: BaseCreatePendingSidebarInput,
 ): ThreadInfo {
   const {
     sourceMessageInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     loggedInUserInfo,
     messageTitle,
   } = input;
   const { color, type: parentThreadType } = parentThreadInfo;
   const threadName = trimText(messageTitle, 30);
 
   const initialMembers = new Map();
 
   const { id: viewerID, username: viewerUsername } = loggedInUserInfo;
   initialMembers.set(viewerID, { id: viewerID, username: viewerUsername });
 
   if (userIsMember(parentThreadInfo, sourceMessageInfo.creator.id)) {
     const { id: sourceAuthorID, username: sourceAuthorUsername } =
       sourceMessageInfo.creator;
     invariant(
       sourceAuthorUsername,
       'sourceAuthorUsername should be set in createPendingSidebar',
     );
     const initialMemberUserInfo = {
       id: sourceAuthorID,
       username: sourceAuthorUsername,
     };
     initialMembers.set(sourceAuthorID, initialMemberUserInfo);
   }
 
   const singleOtherUser = getSingleOtherUser(parentThreadInfo, viewerID);
   if (parentThreadType === threadTypes.PERSONAL && singleOtherUser) {
     const singleOtherUsername = parentThreadInfo.members.find(
       member => member.id === singleOtherUser,
     )?.username;
     invariant(
       singleOtherUsername,
       'singleOtherUsername should be set in createPendingSidebar',
     );
     const singleOtherUserInfo = {
       id: singleOtherUser,
       username: singleOtherUsername,
     };
     initialMembers.set(singleOtherUser, singleOtherUserInfo);
   }
 
   if (sourceMessageInfo.type === messageTypes.TEXT) {
     const mentionedMembersOfParent = extractMentionedMembers(
       sourceMessageInfo.text,
       parentThreadInfo,
     );
     for (const [memberID, member] of mentionedMembersOfParent) {
       initialMembers.set(memberID, member);
     }
   }
 
   return createPendingThread({
     viewerID,
     threadType: threadTypes.SIDEBAR,
     members: [...initialMembers.values()],
     parentThreadInfo,
     threadColor: color,
     name: threadName,
     sourceMessageID: sourceMessageInfo.id,
   });
 }
 
 // The message title here may have ETH addresses that aren't resolved to ENS
 // names. This function should only be used in cases where we're sure that we
 // don't care about the thread title. We should prefer createPendingSidebar
 // wherever possible
 type CreateUnresolvedPendingSidebarInput = {
   ...SharedCreatePendingSidebarInput,
   +markdownRules: ParserRules,
 };
 function createUnresolvedPendingSidebar(
   input: CreateUnresolvedPendingSidebarInput,
 ): ThreadInfo {
   const {
     sourceMessageInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     loggedInUserInfo,
     markdownRules,
   } = input;
 
   const messageTitleEntityText = getMessageTitle(
     sourceMessageInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     markdownRules,
   );
   const messageTitle = entityTextToRawString(messageTitleEntityText, {
     ignoreViewer: true,
   });
 
   return baseCreatePendingSidebar({
     sourceMessageInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     messageTitle,
     loggedInUserInfo,
   });
 }
 
 type CreatePendingSidebarInput = {
   ...SharedCreatePendingSidebarInput,
   +markdownRules: ParserRules,
   +getENSNames: ?GetENSNames,
 };
 async function createPendingSidebar(
   input: CreatePendingSidebarInput,
 ): Promise<ThreadInfo> {
   const {
     sourceMessageInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     loggedInUserInfo,
     markdownRules,
     getENSNames,
   } = input;
 
   const messageTitleEntityText = getMessageTitle(
     sourceMessageInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     markdownRules,
   );
   const messageTitle = await getEntityTextAsString(
     messageTitleEntityText,
     getENSNames,
     { ignoreViewer: true },
   );
   invariant(
     messageTitle !== null && messageTitle !== undefined,
     'getEntityTextAsString only returns falsey when passed falsey',
   );
 
   return baseCreatePendingSidebar({
     sourceMessageInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
     messageTitle,
     loggedInUserInfo,
   });
 }
 
 function pendingThreadType(numberOfOtherMembers: number): 4 | 6 | 7 {
   if (numberOfOtherMembers === 0) {
     return threadTypes.PRIVATE;
   } else if (numberOfOtherMembers === 1) {
     return threadTypes.PERSONAL;
   } else {
     return threadTypes.LOCAL;
   }
 }
 
 function threadTypeCanBePending(threadType: ThreadType): boolean {
   return (
     threadType === threadTypes.PERSONAL ||
     threadType === threadTypes.LOCAL ||
     threadType === threadTypes.SIDEBAR ||
     threadType === threadTypes.PRIVATE
   );
 }
 
 type CreateRealThreadParameters = {
   +threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   +dispatchActionPromise: DispatchActionPromise,
   +createNewThread: ClientNewThreadRequest => Promise<NewThreadResult>,
   +sourceMessageID: ?string,
   +viewerID: ?string,
   +handleError?: () => mixed,
   +calendarQuery: CalendarQuery,
 };
 async function createRealThreadFromPendingThread({
   threadInfo,
   dispatchActionPromise,
   createNewThread,
   sourceMessageID,
   viewerID,
   calendarQuery,
 }: CreateRealThreadParameters): Promise<string> {
   if (!threadIsPending(threadInfo.id)) {
     return threadInfo.id;
   }
 
   const otherMemberIDs = threadOtherMembers(threadInfo.members, viewerID).map(
     member => member.id,
   );
   let resultPromise;
   if (threadInfo.type !== threadTypes.SIDEBAR) {
     invariant(
       otherMemberIDs.length > 0,
       'otherMemberIDs should not be empty for threads',
     );
     resultPromise = createNewThread({
       type: pendingThreadType(otherMemberIDs.length),
       initialMemberIDs: otherMemberIDs,
       color: threadInfo.color,
       calendarQuery,
     });
   } else {
     invariant(
       sourceMessageID,
       'sourceMessageID should be set when creating a sidebar',
     );
     resultPromise = createNewThread({
       type: threadTypes.SIDEBAR,
       initialMemberIDs: otherMemberIDs,
       color: threadInfo.color,
       sourceMessageID,
       parentThreadID: threadInfo.parentThreadID,
       name: threadInfo.name,
       calendarQuery,
     });
   }
   dispatchActionPromise(newThreadActionTypes, resultPromise);
   const { newThreadID } = await resultPromise;
   return newThreadID;
 }
 
 type RawThreadInfoOptions = {
   +filterThreadEditAvatarPermission?: boolean,
   +excludePinInfo?: boolean,
   +filterManageInviteLinksPermission?: boolean,
 };
 function rawThreadInfoFromServerThreadInfo(
   serverThreadInfo: ServerThreadInfo,
   viewerID: string,
   options?: RawThreadInfoOptions,
 ): ?RawThreadInfo {
   const filterThreadEditAvatarPermission =
     options?.filterThreadEditAvatarPermission;
   const excludePinInfo = options?.excludePinInfo;
   const filterManageInviteLinksPermission =
     options?.filterManageInviteLinksPermission;
 
   const filterThreadPermissions = _omitBy(
     (v, k) =>
       (filterThreadEditAvatarPermission &&
         [
           threadPermissions.EDIT_THREAD_AVATAR,
           threadPermissionPropagationPrefixes.DESCENDANT +
             threadPermissions.EDIT_THREAD_AVATAR,
         ].includes(k)) ||
       (excludePinInfo &&
         [
           threadPermissions.MANAGE_PINS,
           threadPermissionPropagationPrefixes.DESCENDANT +
             threadPermissions.MANAGE_PINS,
         ].includes(k)) ||
       (filterManageInviteLinksPermission &&
         [threadPermissions.MANAGE_INVITE_LINKS].includes(k)),
   );
 
   const members = [];
   let currentUser;
   for (const serverMember of serverThreadInfo.members) {
     if (
       serverThreadInfo.id === genesis.id &&
       serverMember.id !== viewerID &&
       serverMember.id !== ashoat.id
     ) {
       continue;
     }
 
     const memberPermissions = filterThreadPermissions(serverMember.permissions);
 
     members.push({
       id: serverMember.id,
       role: serverMember.role,
       permissions: memberPermissions,
       isSender: serverMember.isSender,
     });
     if (serverMember.id === viewerID) {
       currentUser = {
         role: serverMember.role,
         permissions: memberPermissions,
         subscription: serverMember.subscription,
         unread: serverMember.unread,
       };
     }
   }
 
   let currentUserPermissions;
   if (currentUser) {
     currentUserPermissions = currentUser.permissions;
   } else {
     currentUserPermissions = filterThreadPermissions(
       getAllThreadPermissions(null, serverThreadInfo.id),
     );
     currentUser = {
       role: null,
       permissions: currentUserPermissions,
       subscription: {
         home: false,
         pushNotifs: false,
       },
       unread: null,
     };
   }
   if (!permissionLookup(currentUserPermissions, threadPermissions.KNOW_OF)) {
     return null;
   }
 
   const rolesWithFilteredThreadPermissions = _mapValues(role => ({
     ...role,
     permissions: filterThreadPermissions(role.permissions),
   }))(serverThreadInfo.roles);
 
   let rawThreadInfo: any = {
     id: serverThreadInfo.id,
     type: serverThreadInfo.type,
     name: serverThreadInfo.name,
     description: serverThreadInfo.description,
     color: serverThreadInfo.color,
     creationTime: serverThreadInfo.creationTime,
     parentThreadID: serverThreadInfo.parentThreadID,
     members,
     roles: rolesWithFilteredThreadPermissions,
     currentUser,
     repliesCount: serverThreadInfo.repliesCount,
     containingThreadID: serverThreadInfo.containingThreadID,
     community: serverThreadInfo.community,
   };
   const sourceMessageID = serverThreadInfo.sourceMessageID;
   if (sourceMessageID) {
     rawThreadInfo = { ...rawThreadInfo, sourceMessageID };
   }
   if (serverThreadInfo.avatar) {
     rawThreadInfo = { ...rawThreadInfo, avatar: serverThreadInfo.avatar };
   }
   if (!excludePinInfo) {
     return {
       ...rawThreadInfo,
       pinnedCount: serverThreadInfo.pinnedCount,
     };
   }
   return rawThreadInfo;
 }
 
 function threadUIName(threadInfo: ThreadInfo): string | ThreadEntity {
   if (threadInfo.name) {
     return firstLine(threadInfo.name);
   }
   const threadMembers = threadInfo.members.filter(
     memberInfo => memberInfo.role,
   );
   const memberEntities = threadMembers.map(member =>
     ET.user({ userInfo: member }),
   );
   return {
     type: 'thread',
     id: threadInfo.id,
     name: threadInfo.name,
     display: 'uiName',
     uiName: memberEntities,
     ifJustViewer:
       threadInfo.type === threadTypes.PRIVATE
         ? 'viewer_username'
         : 'just_you_string',
   };
 }
 
 function threadInfoFromRawThreadInfo(
   rawThreadInfo: RawThreadInfo,
   viewerID: ?string,
   userInfos: UserInfos,
 ): ThreadInfo {
   let threadInfo: ThreadInfo = {
     id: rawThreadInfo.id,
     type: rawThreadInfo.type,
     name: rawThreadInfo.name,
     uiName: '',
     description: rawThreadInfo.description,
     color: rawThreadInfo.color,
     creationTime: rawThreadInfo.creationTime,
     parentThreadID: rawThreadInfo.parentThreadID,
     containingThreadID: rawThreadInfo.containingThreadID,
     community: rawThreadInfo.community,
     members: getRelativeMemberInfos(rawThreadInfo, viewerID, userInfos),
     roles: rawThreadInfo.roles,
     currentUser: getCurrentUser(rawThreadInfo, viewerID, userInfos),
     repliesCount: rawThreadInfo.repliesCount,
   };
   threadInfo = {
     ...threadInfo,
     uiName: threadUIName(threadInfo),
   };
   const { sourceMessageID, avatar, pinnedCount } = rawThreadInfo;
   if (sourceMessageID) {
     threadInfo = { ...threadInfo, sourceMessageID };
   }
 
   if (avatar) {
     threadInfo = { ...threadInfo, avatar };
   } else if (
     rawThreadInfo.type === threadTypes.PERSONAL ||
     rawThreadInfo.type === threadTypes.PRIVATE
   ) {
     threadInfo = {
       ...threadInfo,
       avatar: getUserAvatarForThread(rawThreadInfo, viewerID, userInfos),
     };
   }
 
   if (pinnedCount) {
     threadInfo = { ...threadInfo, pinnedCount };
   }
 
   return threadInfo;
 }
 
 function getCurrentUser(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
   viewerID: ?string,
   userInfos: UserInfos,
 ): ThreadCurrentUserInfo {
   if (!threadFrozenDueToBlock(threadInfo, viewerID, userInfos)) {
     return threadInfo.currentUser;
   }
 
   return {
     ...threadInfo.currentUser,
     permissions: {
       ...threadInfo.currentUser.permissions,
       ...disabledPermissions,
     },
   };
 }
 
 function threadIsWithBlockedUserOnly(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
   viewerID: ?string,
   userInfos: UserInfos,
   checkOnlyViewerBlock?: boolean,
 ): boolean {
   if (
     threadOrParentThreadIsGroupChat(threadInfo) ||
     threadOrParentThreadHasAdminRole(threadInfo)
   ) {
     return false;
   }
 
   const otherUserID = getSingleOtherUser(threadInfo, viewerID);
   if (!otherUserID) {
     return false;
   }
   const otherUserRelationshipStatus =
     userInfos[otherUserID]?.relationshipStatus;
 
   if (checkOnlyViewerBlock) {
     return (
       otherUserRelationshipStatus === userRelationshipStatus.BLOCKED_BY_VIEWER
     );
   }
 
   return (
     !!otherUserRelationshipStatus &&
     relationshipBlockedInEitherDirection(otherUserRelationshipStatus)
   );
 }
 
 function threadFrozenDueToBlock(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
   viewerID: ?string,
   userInfos: UserInfos,
 ): boolean {
   return threadIsWithBlockedUserOnly(threadInfo, viewerID, userInfos);
 }
 
 function threadFrozenDueToViewerBlock(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
   viewerID: ?string,
   userInfos: UserInfos,
 ): boolean {
   return threadIsWithBlockedUserOnly(threadInfo, viewerID, userInfos, true);
 }
 
 const threadTypeDescriptions: { [ThreadType]: string } = {
   [threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_SUBTHREAD]:
     'Anybody in the parent channel can see an open subchannel.',
   [threadTypes.COMMUNITY_SECRET_SUBTHREAD]:
     'Only visible to its members and admins of ancestor channels.',
 };
 
 function memberIsAdmin(
   memberInfo: RelativeMemberInfo | MemberInfo,
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo,
 ): boolean {
   return !!(
     memberInfo.role && roleIsAdminRole(threadInfo.roles[memberInfo.role])
   );
 }
 
 // Since we don't have access to all of the ancestor ThreadInfos, we approximate
 // "parent admin" as anybody with CHANGE_ROLE permissions.
 function memberHasAdminPowers(
   memberInfo: RelativeMemberInfo | MemberInfo | ServerMemberInfo,
 ): boolean {
   return !!memberInfo.permissions[threadPermissions.CHANGE_ROLE]?.value;
 }
 
 function roleIsAdminRole(roleInfo: ?RoleInfo): boolean {
   return !!(roleInfo && !roleInfo.isDefault && roleInfo.name === 'Admins');
 }
 
 function threadHasAdminRole(
   threadInfo: ?(RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo | ServerThreadInfo),
 ): boolean {
   if (!threadInfo) {
     return false;
   }
   return !!_find({ name: 'Admins' })(threadInfo.roles);
 }
 
 function threadOrParentThreadHasAdminRole(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
 ) {
   return (
     threadMembersWithoutAddedAshoat(threadInfo).filter(member =>
       memberHasAdminPowers(member),
     ).length > 0
   );
 }
 
 function identifyInvalidatedThreads(
   updateInfos: $ReadOnlyArray<ClientUpdateInfo>,
 ): Set<string> {
   const invalidated = new Set();
   for (const updateInfo of updateInfos) {
     if (updateInfo.type === updateTypes.DELETE_THREAD) {
       invalidated.add(updateInfo.threadID);
     }
   }
   return invalidated;
 }
 
 const permissionsDisabledByBlockArray = [
   threadPermissions.VOICED,
   threadPermissions.EDIT_ENTRIES,
   threadPermissions.EDIT_THREAD_NAME,
   threadPermissions.EDIT_THREAD_COLOR,
   threadPermissions.EDIT_THREAD_DESCRIPTION,
   threadPermissions.CREATE_SUBCHANNELS,
   threadPermissions.CREATE_SIDEBARS,
   threadPermissions.JOIN_THREAD,
   threadPermissions.EDIT_PERMISSIONS,
   threadPermissions.ADD_MEMBERS,
   threadPermissions.REMOVE_MEMBERS,
 ];
 
 const permissionsDisabledByBlock: Set<ThreadPermission> = new Set(
   permissionsDisabledByBlockArray,
 );
 
 const disabledPermissions: ThreadPermissionsInfo =
   permissionsDisabledByBlockArray.reduce(
     (permissions: ThreadPermissionsInfo, permission: string) => ({
       ...permissions,
       [permission]: { value: false, source: null },
     }),
     {},
   );
 
 // Consider updating itemHeight in native/chat/chat-thread-list.react.js
 // if you change this
 const emptyItemText: string =
   `Background chats are just like normal chats, except they don't ` +
   `contribute to your unread count.\n\n` +
   `To move a chat over here, switch the “Background” option in its settings.`;
 
 function threadNoun(threadType: ThreadType, parentThreadID: ?string): string {
   if (threadType === threadTypes.SIDEBAR) {
     return 'thread';
   } else if (
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_SECRET_SUBTHREAD &&
     parentThreadID === genesis.id
   ) {
     return 'chat';
   } else if (
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_ROOT ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_ANNOUNCEMENT_ROOT ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_SECRET_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_SECRET_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.GENESIS
   ) {
     return 'channel';
   } else {
     return 'chat';
   }
 }
 
 function threadLabel(threadType: ThreadType): string {
   if (
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBTHREAD
   ) {
     return 'Open';
   } else if (threadType === threadTypes.PERSONAL) {
     return 'Personal';
   } else if (threadType === threadTypes.SIDEBAR) {
     return 'Thread';
   } else if (threadType === threadTypes.PRIVATE) {
     return 'Private';
   } else if (
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_ROOT ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_ANNOUNCEMENT_ROOT ||
     threadType === threadTypes.GENESIS
   ) {
     return 'Community';
   } else {
     return 'Secret';
   }
 }
 
 function useWatchThread(threadInfo: ?ThreadInfo) {
   const dispatchActionPromise = useDispatchActionPromise();
   const callFetchMostRecentMessages = useServerCall(fetchMostRecentMessages);
 
   const threadID = threadInfo?.id;
   const threadNotInChatList = !threadInChatList(threadInfo);
   React.useEffect(() => {
     if (threadID && threadNotInChatList) {
       threadWatcher.watchID(threadID);
       dispatchActionPromise(
         fetchMostRecentMessagesActionTypes,
         callFetchMostRecentMessages(threadID),
       );
     }
     return () => {
       if (threadID && threadNotInChatList) {
         threadWatcher.removeID(threadID);
       }
     };
   }, [
     callFetchMostRecentMessages,
     dispatchActionPromise,
     threadNotInChatList,
     threadID,
   ]);
 }
 
 type ExistingThreadInfoFinderParams = {
   +searching: boolean,
   +userInfoInputArray: $ReadOnlyArray<AccountUserInfo>,
 };
 type ExistingThreadInfoFinder = (
   params: ExistingThreadInfoFinderParams,
 ) => ?ThreadInfo;
 function useExistingThreadInfoFinder(
   baseThreadInfo: ?ThreadInfo,
 ): ExistingThreadInfoFinder {
   const threadInfos = useSelector(threadInfoSelector);
   const loggedInUserInfo = useLoggedInUserInfo();
   const userInfos = useSelector(state => state.userStore.userInfos);
 
   const pendingToRealizedThreadIDs = useSelector(state =>
     pendingToRealizedThreadIDsSelector(state.threadStore.threadInfos),
   );
   return React.useCallback(
     (params: ExistingThreadInfoFinderParams): ?ThreadInfo => {
       if (!baseThreadInfo) {
         return null;
       }
 
       const realizedThreadInfo = threadInfos[baseThreadInfo.id];
       if (realizedThreadInfo) {
         return realizedThreadInfo;
       }
 
       if (!loggedInUserInfo || !threadIsPending(baseThreadInfo.id)) {
         return baseThreadInfo;
       }
       const viewerID = loggedInUserInfo?.id;
 
       invariant(
         threadTypeCanBePending(baseThreadInfo.type),
         `ThreadInfo has pending ID ${baseThreadInfo.id}, but type that ` +
           `should not be pending ${baseThreadInfo.type}`,
       );
 
       const { searching, userInfoInputArray } = params;
 
       const { sourceMessageID } = baseThreadInfo;
       const pendingThreadID = searching
         ? getPendingThreadID(
             pendingThreadType(userInfoInputArray.length),
             [...userInfoInputArray.map(user => user.id), viewerID],
             sourceMessageID,
           )
         : getPendingThreadID(
             baseThreadInfo.type,
             baseThreadInfo.members.map(member => member.id),
             sourceMessageID,
           );
 
       const realizedThreadID = pendingToRealizedThreadIDs.get(pendingThreadID);
       if (realizedThreadID && threadInfos[realizedThreadID]) {
         return threadInfos[realizedThreadID];
       }
 
       const updatedThread = searching
         ? createPendingThread({
             viewerID,
             threadType: pendingThreadType(userInfoInputArray.length),
             members: [loggedInUserInfo, ...userInfoInputArray],
           })
         : baseThreadInfo;
       return {
         ...updatedThread,
         currentUser: getCurrentUser(updatedThread, viewerID, userInfos),
       };
     },
     [
       baseThreadInfo,
       threadInfos,
       loggedInUserInfo,
       pendingToRealizedThreadIDs,
       userInfos,
     ],
   );
 }
 
 type ThreadTypeParentRequirement = 'optional' | 'required' | 'disabled';
 function getThreadTypeParentRequirement(
   threadType: ThreadType,
 ): ThreadTypeParentRequirement {
   if (
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_OPEN_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBTHREAD ||
     //threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_SECRET_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_SECRET_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBTHREAD ||
     threadType === threadTypes.SIDEBAR
   ) {
     return 'required';
   } else if (
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_ROOT ||
     threadType === threadTypes.COMMUNITY_ANNOUNCEMENT_ROOT ||
     threadType === threadTypes.GENESIS ||
     threadType === threadTypes.PERSONAL ||
     threadType === threadTypes.PRIVATE
   ) {
     return 'disabled';
   } else {
     return 'optional';
   }
 }
 
 function threadMemberHasPermission(
   threadInfo: ServerThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
   memberID: string,
   permission: ThreadPermission,
 ): boolean {
   for (const member of threadInfo.members) {
     if (member.id !== memberID) {
       continue;
     }
     return permissionLookup(member.permissions, permission);
   }
   return false;
 }
 
 function useCanCreateSidebarFromMessage(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   messageInfo: ComposableMessageInfo | RobotextMessageInfo,
 ): boolean {
   const messageCreatorUserInfo = useSelector(
     state => state.userStore.userInfos[messageInfo.creator.id],
   );
 
   if (
     !messageInfo.id ||
     threadInfo.sourceMessageID === messageInfo.id ||
     isInvalidSidebarSource(messageInfo.type)
   ) {
     return false;
   }
 
   const messageCreatorRelationship = messageCreatorUserInfo?.relationshipStatus;
   const creatorRelationshipHasBlock =
     messageCreatorRelationship &&
     relationshipBlockedInEitherDirection(messageCreatorRelationship);
 
   const hasPermission = threadHasPermission(
     threadInfo,
     threadPermissions.CREATE_SIDEBARS,
   );
 
   return hasPermission && !creatorRelationshipHasBlock;
 }
 
 function useSidebarExistsOrCanBeCreated(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   messageItem: ChatMessageInfoItem,
 ): boolean {
   const canCreateSidebarFromMessage = useCanCreateSidebarFromMessage(
     threadInfo,
     messageItem.messageInfo,
   );
   return !!messageItem.threadCreatedFromMessage || canCreateSidebarFromMessage;
 }
 
 function checkIfDefaultMembersAreVoiced(threadInfo: ThreadInfo): boolean {
   const defaultRoleID = Object.keys(threadInfo.roles).find(
     roleID => threadInfo.roles[roleID].isDefault,
   );
   invariant(
     defaultRoleID !== undefined,
     'all threads should have a default role',
   );
   const defaultRole = threadInfo.roles[defaultRoleID];
   return !!defaultRole.permissions[threadPermissions.VOICED];
 }
 
 const draftKeySuffix = '/message_composer';
 
 function draftKeyFromThreadID(threadID: string): string {
   return `${threadID}${draftKeySuffix}`;
 }
 
 function getContainingThreadID(
   parentThreadInfo: ?ServerThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
   threadType: ThreadType,
 ): ?string {
   if (!parentThreadInfo) {
     return null;
   }
   if (threadType === threadTypes.SIDEBAR) {
     return parentThreadInfo.id;
   }
   if (!parentThreadInfo.containingThreadID) {
     return parentThreadInfo.id;
   }
   return parentThreadInfo.containingThreadID;
 }
 
 function getCommunity(
   parentThreadInfo: ?ServerThreadInfo | RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
 ): ?string {
   if (!parentThreadInfo) {
     return null;
   }
   const { id, community, type } = parentThreadInfo;
   if (community !== null && community !== undefined) {
     return community;
   }
   if (threadTypeIsCommunityRoot(type)) {
     return id;
   }
   return null;
 }
 
 function getThreadListSearchResults(
   chatListData: $ReadOnlyArray<ChatThreadItem>,
   searchText: string,
   threadFilter: ThreadInfo => boolean,
   threadSearchResults: $ReadOnlySet<string>,
   usersSearchResults: $ReadOnlyArray<GlobalAccountUserInfo>,
   loggedInUserInfo: ?LoggedInUserInfo,
 ): $ReadOnlyArray<ChatThreadItem> {
   if (!searchText) {
     return chatListData.filter(
       item =>
         threadIsTopLevel(item.threadInfo) && threadFilter(item.threadInfo),
     );
   }
 
   const privateThreads = [];
   const personalThreads = [];
   const otherThreads = [];
   for (const item of chatListData) {
     if (!threadSearchResults.has(item.threadInfo.id)) {
       continue;
     }
     if (item.threadInfo.type === threadTypes.PRIVATE) {
       privateThreads.push({ ...item, sidebars: [] });
     } else if (item.threadInfo.type === threadTypes.PERSONAL) {
       personalThreads.push({ ...item, sidebars: [] });
     } else {
       otherThreads.push({ ...item, sidebars: [] });
     }
   }
 
   const chatItems = [...privateThreads, ...personalThreads, ...otherThreads];
   if (loggedInUserInfo) {
     chatItems.push(
       ...usersSearchResults.map(user =>
         createPendingThreadItem(loggedInUserInfo, user),
       ),
     );
   }
   return chatItems;
 }
 
 type ThreadListSearchResult = {
   +threadSearchResults: $ReadOnlySet<string>,
   +usersSearchResults: $ReadOnlyArray<GlobalAccountUserInfo>,
 };
 function useThreadListSearch(
   searchText: string,
   viewerID: ?string,
 ): ThreadListSearchResult {
   const callSearchUsers = useServerCall(searchUserCall);
   const usersWithPersonalThread = useSelector(usersWithPersonalThreadSelector);
   const searchUsers = React.useCallback(
     async (usernamePrefix: string) => {
       if (usernamePrefix.length === 0) {
         return [];
       }
 
       const { userInfos } = await callSearchUsers(usernamePrefix);
       return userInfos.filter(
         info => !usersWithPersonalThread.has(info.id) && info.id !== viewerID,
       );
     },
     [callSearchUsers, usersWithPersonalThread, viewerID],
   );
 
   const [threadSearchResults, setThreadSearchResults] = React.useState(
     new Set(),
   );
   const [usersSearchResults, setUsersSearchResults] = React.useState([]);
   const threadSearchIndex = useGlobalThreadSearchIndex();
   React.useEffect(() => {
     (async () => {
       const results = threadSearchIndex.getSearchResults(searchText);
       setThreadSearchResults(new Set(results));
       const usersResults = await searchUsers(searchText);
       setUsersSearchResults(usersResults);
     })();
   }, [searchText, threadSearchIndex, searchUsers]);
 
   return { threadSearchResults, usersSearchResults };
 }
 
 function removeMemberFromThread(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   memberInfo: RelativeMemberInfo,
   dispatchActionPromise: DispatchActionPromise,
   removeUserFromThreadServerCall: (
     threadID: string,
     memberIDs: $ReadOnlyArray<string>,
   ) => Promise<ChangeThreadSettingsPayload>,
 ) {
   const customKeyName = `${removeUsersFromThreadActionTypes.started}:${memberInfo.id}`;
   dispatchActionPromise(
     removeUsersFromThreadActionTypes,
     removeUserFromThreadServerCall(threadInfo.id, [memberInfo.id]),
     { customKeyName },
   );
 }
 
 function switchMemberAdminRoleInThread(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   memberInfo: RelativeMemberInfo,
   isCurrentlyAdmin: boolean,
   dispatchActionPromise: DispatchActionPromise,
   changeUserRoleServerCall: (
     threadID: string,
     memberIDs: $ReadOnlyArray<string>,
     newRole: string,
   ) => Promise<ChangeThreadSettingsPayload>,
 ) {
   let newRole = null;
   for (const roleID in threadInfo.roles) {
     const role = threadInfo.roles[roleID];
     if (isCurrentlyAdmin && role.isDefault) {
       newRole = role.id;
       break;
     } else if (!isCurrentlyAdmin && roleIsAdminRole(role)) {
       newRole = role.id;
       break;
     }
   }
   invariant(newRole !== null, 'Could not find new role');
 
   const customKeyName = `${changeThreadMemberRolesActionTypes.started}:${memberInfo.id}`;
   dispatchActionPromise(
     changeThreadMemberRolesActionTypes,
     changeUserRoleServerCall(threadInfo.id, [memberInfo.id], newRole),
     { customKeyName },
   );
 }
 
 function getAvailableThreadMemberActions(
   memberInfo: RelativeMemberInfo,
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   canEdit: ?boolean = true,
 ): $ReadOnlyArray<'change_role' | 'remove_user'> {
   const role = memberInfo.role;
   if (!canEdit || !role) {
     return [];
   }
 
   const canRemoveMembers = threadHasPermission(
     threadInfo,
     threadPermissions.REMOVE_MEMBERS,
   );
   const canChangeRoles = threadHasPermission(
     threadInfo,
     threadPermissions.CHANGE_ROLE,
   );
 
   const result = [];
 
   if (canChangeRoles && memberInfo.username && threadHasAdminRole(threadInfo)) {
     result.push('change_role');
   }
 
   if (
     canRemoveMembers &&
     !memberInfo.isViewer &&
     (canChangeRoles || threadInfo.roles[role]?.isDefault)
   ) {
     result.push('remove_user');
   }
 
   return result;
 }
 
 function patchThreadInfoToIncludeMentionedMembersOfParent(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   parentThreadInfo: ThreadInfo,
   messageText: string,
   viewerID: string,
 ): ThreadInfo {
   const members: UserIDAndUsername[] = threadInfo.members
     .map(({ id, username }) => (username ? { id, username } : null))
     .filter(Boolean);
   const mentionedNewMembers = extractNewMentionedParentMembers(
     messageText,
     threadInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
   );
   if (mentionedNewMembers.length === 0) {
     return threadInfo;
   }
   members.push(...mentionedNewMembers);
   return createPendingThread({
     viewerID,
     threadType: threadTypes.SIDEBAR,
     members,
     parentThreadInfo,
     threadColor: threadInfo.color,
     name: threadInfo.name,
     sourceMessageID: threadInfo.sourceMessageID,
   });
 }
 
 function threadInfoInsideCommunity(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
   communityID: string,
 ): boolean {
   return threadInfo.community === communityID || threadInfo.id === communityID;
 }
 
 type RoleAndMemberCount = {
   [roleName: string]: number,
 };
 
 function useRoleMemberCountsForCommunity(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 ): RoleAndMemberCount {
   return React.useMemo(() => {
     const roleIDsToNames = {};
 
     Object.keys(threadInfo.roles).forEach(roleID => {
       roleIDsToNames[roleID] = threadInfo.roles[roleID].name;
     });
 
     const roleNamesToMemberCount: RoleAndMemberCount = {};
 
     threadInfo.members.forEach(({ role: roleID }) => {
       invariant(roleID, 'Community member should have a role');
       const roleName = roleIDsToNames[roleID];
 
       roleNamesToMemberCount[roleName] =
         (roleNamesToMemberCount[roleName] ?? 0) + 1;
     });
 
     // For all community roles with no members, add them to the list with 0
     Object.keys(roleIDsToNames).forEach(roleName => {
       if (roleNamesToMemberCount[roleIDsToNames[roleName]] === undefined) {
         roleNamesToMemberCount[roleIDsToNames[roleName]] = 0;
       }
     });
 
     return roleNamesToMemberCount;
   }, [threadInfo]);
 }
 
 type RoleUserSurfacedPermissions = {
   +[roleName: string]: $ReadOnlySet<UserSurfacedPermission>,
 };
 // Iterates through the existing roles in the community and 'reverse maps'
 // the set of permission literals for each role to user-facing permission enums
 // to help pre-populate the permission checkboxes when editing roles.
 function useRoleUserSurfacedPermissions(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 ): RoleUserSurfacedPermissions {
   return React.useMemo(() => {
     const roleNamesToPermissions = {};
 
     Object.keys(threadInfo.roles).forEach(roleID => {
       const roleName = threadInfo.roles[roleID].name;
       const rolePermissions = Object.keys(threadInfo.roles[roleID].permissions);
       const setOfUserSurfacedPermissions = new Set();
 
       rolePermissions.forEach(rolePermission => {
         const userSurfacedPermission = Object.keys(
           configurableCommunityPermissions,
         ).find(key =>
           configurableCommunityPermissions[key].has(rolePermission),
         );
 
         if (userSurfacedPermission) {
           setOfUserSurfacedPermissions.add(userSurfacedPermission);
         }
       });
       roleNamesToPermissions[roleName] = setOfUserSurfacedPermissions;
     });
 
     return roleNamesToPermissions;
   }, [threadInfo]);
 }
 
 function communityOrThreadNoun(threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo): string {
   return threadTypeIsCommunityRoot(threadInfo.type)
     ? 'community'
     : threadNoun(threadInfo.type, threadInfo.parentThreadID);
 }
 
 function getThreadsToDeleteText(
   threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
 ): string {
   return `${
     threadTypeIsCommunityRoot(threadInfo.type)
       ? 'Subchannels and threads'
       : 'Threads'
   } within this ${communityOrThreadNoun(threadInfo)}`;
 }
 
 function getChatMentionCandidates(threadInfos: {
   +[id: string]: ResolvedThreadInfo,
 }): {
   chatMentionCandidatesObj: ChatMentionCandidatesObj,
   communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads: { +[id: string]: string },
 } {
   const result = {};
   const visitedGenesisThreads = new Set();
   const communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads = {};
   for (const currentThreadID in threadInfos) {
     const currentThreadInfo = threadInfos[currentThreadID];
     const { community: currentThreadCommunity } = currentThreadInfo;
     if (!currentThreadCommunity) {
       if (!result[currentThreadID]) {
         result[currentThreadID] = { [currentThreadID]: currentThreadInfo };
       }
       continue;
     }
     if (!result[currentThreadCommunity]) {
       result[currentThreadCommunity] = {
         [currentThreadCommunity]: threadInfos[currentThreadCommunity],
       };
     }
     // Handle GENESIS community case: mentioning inside GENESIS should only
     // show chats and threads inside the top level that is below GENESIS.
     if (threadInfos[currentThreadCommunity].type === threadTypes.GENESIS) {
       if (visitedGenesisThreads.has(currentThreadID)) {
         continue;
       }
       const threadTraversePath = [currentThreadInfo];
       visitedGenesisThreads.add(currentThreadID);
       let currentlySelectedThreadID = currentThreadInfo.parentThreadID;
       while (currentlySelectedThreadID) {
         const currentlySelectedThreadInfo =
           threadInfos[currentlySelectedThreadID];
         if (
           visitedGenesisThreads.has(currentlySelectedThreadID) ||
           !currentlySelectedThreadInfo ||
           currentlySelectedThreadInfo.type === threadTypes.GENESIS
         ) {
           break;
         }
         threadTraversePath.push(currentlySelectedThreadInfo);
         visitedGenesisThreads.add(currentlySelectedThreadID);
         currentlySelectedThreadID = currentlySelectedThreadInfo.parentThreadID;
       }
       const lastThreadInTraversePath =
         threadTraversePath[threadTraversePath.length - 1];
       let lastThreadInTraversePathParentID;
       if (lastThreadInTraversePath.parentThreadID) {
         lastThreadInTraversePathParentID = threadInfos[
           lastThreadInTraversePath.parentThreadID
         ]
           ? lastThreadInTraversePath.parentThreadID
           : lastThreadInTraversePath.id;
       } else {
         lastThreadInTraversePathParentID = lastThreadInTraversePath.id;
       }
       if (
         threadInfos[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID].type ===
         threadTypes.GENESIS
       ) {
         if (!result[lastThreadInTraversePath.id]) {
           result[lastThreadInTraversePath.id] = {};
         }
         for (const threadInfo of threadTraversePath) {
           result[lastThreadInTraversePath.id][threadInfo.id] = threadInfo;
           communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads[threadInfo.id] =
             lastThreadInTraversePath.id;
         }
       } else {
         if (
           !communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID]
         ) {
           result[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID] = {};
           communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID] =
             lastThreadInTraversePathParentID;
         }
         const lastThreadInTraversePathParentCommunityThreadID =
           communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads[lastThreadInTraversePathParentID];
         for (const threadInfo of threadTraversePath) {
           result[lastThreadInTraversePathParentCommunityThreadID][
             threadInfo.id
           ] = threadInfo;
           communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads[threadInfo.id] =
             lastThreadInTraversePathParentCommunityThreadID;
         }
       }
       continue;
     }
     result[currentThreadCommunity][currentThreadID] = currentThreadInfo;
   }
   return {
     chatMentionCandidatesObj: result,
     communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads,
   };
 }
 
 function useChatMentionCandidatesObjAndUtils(): {
   chatMentionCandidatesObj: ChatMentionCandidatesObj,
   resolvedThreadInfos: ChatMentionCandidates,
   communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads: { +[id: string]: string },
 } {
   const threadInfos = useSelector(threadInfoSelector);
   const resolvedThreadInfos = useResolvedThreadInfosObj(threadInfos);
   const { chatMentionCandidatesObj, communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads } =
     React.useMemo(
       () => getChatMentionCandidates(resolvedThreadInfos),
       [resolvedThreadInfos],
     );
   return {
     chatMentionCandidatesObj,
     resolvedThreadInfos,
     communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads,
   };
 }
 
 function useChatMentionCandidatesObj(): ChatMentionCandidatesObj {
   const { chatMentionCandidatesObj } = useChatMentionCandidatesObjAndUtils();
   return chatMentionCandidatesObj;
 }
 
 function useThreadChatMentionCandidates(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 ): ChatMentionCandidates {
   const { chatMentionCandidatesObj, communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads } =
     useChatMentionCandidatesObjAndUtils();
   return React.useMemo(() => {
     let communityID,
       result = {};
     if (threadInfo.community === genesis.id) {
       communityID = communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads[threadInfo.id];
     } else {
       communityID = threadInfo.community ?? threadInfo.id;
     }
     if (chatMentionCandidatesObj[communityID]) {
       result = { ...chatMentionCandidatesObj[communityID] };
     }
     delete result[threadInfo.id];
     return result;
   }, [
     chatMentionCandidatesObj,
     communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads,
     threadInfo.community,
     threadInfo.id,
   ]);
 }
 
 function useUserProfileThreadInfo(userInfo: ?UserInfo): ?UserProfileThreadInfo {
   const userID = userInfo?.id;
   const username = userInfo?.username;
 
   const loggedInUserInfo = useLoggedInUserInfo();
   const isViewerProfile = loggedInUserInfo?.id === userID;
 
   const privateThreadInfosSelector = threadInfosSelectorForThreadType(
     threadTypes.PRIVATE,
   );
   const privateThreadInfos = useSelector(privateThreadInfosSelector);
 
   const personalThreadInfosSelector = threadInfosSelectorForThreadType(
     threadTypes.PERSONAL,
   );
 
   const personalThreadInfos = useSelector(personalThreadInfosSelector);
 
   const usersWithPersonalThread = useSelector(usersWithPersonalThreadSelector);
 
   return React.useMemo(() => {
     if (!loggedInUserInfo || !userID || !username) {
       return null;
     }
 
     if (isViewerProfile) {
       const privateThreadInfo: ?ThreadInfo = privateThreadInfos[0];
 
       return privateThreadInfo ? { threadInfo: privateThreadInfo } : null;
     }
 
     if (usersWithPersonalThread.has(userID)) {
       const personalThreadInfo: ?ThreadInfo = personalThreadInfos.find(
         threadInfo =>
           userID === getSingleOtherUser(threadInfo, loggedInUserInfo.id),
       );
 
       return personalThreadInfo ? { threadInfo: personalThreadInfo } : null;
     }
 
     const pendingPersonalThreadInfo = createPendingPersonalThread(
       loggedInUserInfo,
       userID,
       username,
     );
 
     return pendingPersonalThreadInfo;
   }, [
     isViewerProfile,
     loggedInUserInfo,
     personalThreadInfos,
     privateThreadInfos,
     userID,
     username,
     usersWithPersonalThread,
   ]);
 }
 
 function useChatMentionSearchIndex(): {
   +[id: string]: SentencePrefixSearchIndex,
 } {
   const { chatMentionCandidatesObj } = useChatMentionCandidatesObjAndUtils();
   return React.useMemo(() => {
     const result = {};
     for (const communityThreadID in chatMentionCandidatesObj) {
       const searchIndex = new SentencePrefixSearchIndex();
       const searchIndexEntries = [];
       for (const threadID in chatMentionCandidatesObj[communityThreadID]) {
         searchIndexEntries.push({
           id: threadID,
           uiName: chatMentionCandidatesObj[communityThreadID][threadID].uiName,
         });
       }
       // Sort the keys so that the order of the search result is consistent
       searchIndexEntries.sort(({ uiName: uiNameA }, { uiName: uiNameB }) =>
         uiNameA.localeCompare(uiNameB),
       );
       for (const { id, uiName } of searchIndexEntries) {
         searchIndex.addEntry(id, uiName);
       }
       result[communityThreadID] = searchIndex;
     }
     return result;
   }, [chatMentionCandidatesObj]);
 }
 
 function useThreadChatMentionSearchIndex(
   threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 ): SentencePrefixSearchIndex {
   const chatMentionCandidatesSearchIndex = useChatMentionSearchIndex();
   const { communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads } =
     useChatMentionCandidatesObjAndUtils();
   if (threadInfo.community === genesis.id) {
     return chatMentionCandidatesSearchIndex[
       communityThreadIDForGenesisThreads[threadInfo.id]
     ];
   }
   return chatMentionCandidatesSearchIndex[
     threadInfo.community ?? threadInfo.id
   ];
 }
 
 export {
   threadHasPermission,
   viewerIsMember,
   threadInChatList,
   threadIsTopLevel,
   threadIsChannel,
   threadIsSidebar,
   threadInBackgroundChatList,
   threadInHomeChatList,
   threadIsInHome,
   threadInFilterList,
   userIsMember,
   threadActualMembers,
   threadOtherMembers,
   threadIsGroupChat,
   threadIsPending,
   threadIsPendingSidebar,
   getSingleOtherUser,
   getPendingThreadID,
   parsePendingThreadID,
   createPendingThread,
   createUnresolvedPendingSidebar,
   extractNewMentionedParentMembers,
   createPendingSidebar,
   pendingThreadType,
   createRealThreadFromPendingThread,
   getCurrentUser,
   threadFrozenDueToBlock,
   threadFrozenDueToViewerBlock,
   rawThreadInfoFromServerThreadInfo,
   threadUIName,
   threadInfoFromRawThreadInfo,
   threadTypeDescriptions,
   memberIsAdmin,
   memberHasAdminPowers,
   roleIsAdminRole,
   threadHasAdminRole,
   identifyInvalidatedThreads,
   permissionsDisabledByBlock,
   emptyItemText,
   threadNoun,
   threadLabel,
   useWatchThread,
   useExistingThreadInfoFinder,
   getThreadTypeParentRequirement,
   threadMemberHasPermission,
   useCanCreateSidebarFromMessage,
   useSidebarExistsOrCanBeCreated,
   checkIfDefaultMembersAreVoiced,
   draftKeySuffix,
   draftKeyFromThreadID,
   threadTypeCanBePending,
   getContainingThreadID,
   getCommunity,
   getThreadListSearchResults,
   useThreadListSearch,
   removeMemberFromThread,
   switchMemberAdminRoleInThread,
   getAvailableThreadMemberActions,
   threadMembersWithoutAddedAshoat,
   validChatNameRegex,
+  validChatNameRegexString,
   chatNameMaxLength,
   patchThreadInfoToIncludeMentionedMembersOfParent,
   threadInfoInsideCommunity,
   useRoleMemberCountsForCommunity,
   useRoleUserSurfacedPermissions,
   getThreadsToDeleteText,
   useChatMentionCandidatesObj,
   useThreadChatMentionCandidates,
   useUserProfileThreadInfo,
   useThreadChatMentionSearchIndex,
 };
diff --git a/native/avatars/thread-avatar.react.js b/native/avatars/thread-avatar.react.js
index 690232fa5..b52bfe416 100644
--- a/native/avatars/thread-avatar.react.js
+++ b/native/avatars/thread-avatar.react.js
@@ -1,48 +1,52 @@
 // @flow
 
 import * as React from 'react';
 
 import {
   useAvatarForThread,
   useENSResolvedAvatar,
 } from 'lib/shared/avatar-utils.js';
 import { getSingleOtherUser } from 'lib/shared/thread-utils.js';
 import { threadTypes } from 'lib/types/thread-types-enum.js';
-import { type RawThreadInfo, type ThreadInfo } from 'lib/types/thread-types.js';
+import type {
+  RawThreadInfo,
+  ThreadInfo,
+  ResolvedThreadInfo,
+} from 'lib/types/thread-types.js';
 
 import Avatar, { type AvatarSize } from './avatar.react.js';
 import { useSelector } from '../redux/redux-utils.js';
 
 type Props = {
-  +threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo,
+  +threadInfo: RawThreadInfo | ThreadInfo | ResolvedThreadInfo,
   +size: AvatarSize,
 };
 
 function ThreadAvatar(props: Props): React.Node {
   const { threadInfo, size } = props;
 
   const avatarInfo = useAvatarForThread(threadInfo);
 
   const viewerID = useSelector(
     state => state.currentUserInfo && state.currentUserInfo.id,
   );
 
   let displayUserIDForThread;
   if (threadInfo.type === threadTypes.PRIVATE) {
     displayUserIDForThread = viewerID;
   } else if (threadInfo.type === threadTypes.PERSONAL) {
     displayUserIDForThread = getSingleOtherUser(threadInfo, viewerID);
   }
 
   const displayUser = useSelector(state =>
     displayUserIDForThread
       ? state.userStore.userInfos[displayUserIDForThread]
       : null,
   );
 
   const resolvedThreadAvatar = useENSResolvedAvatar(avatarInfo, displayUser);
 
   return <Avatar size={size} avatarInfo={resolvedThreadAvatar} />;
 }
 
 export default ThreadAvatar;
diff --git a/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js b/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js
index 5c1b3748c..4bccf67a1 100644
--- a/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js
+++ b/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js
@@ -1,1425 +1,1442 @@
 // @flow
 
 import Icon from '@expo/vector-icons/Ionicons.js';
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 import _throttle from 'lodash/throttle.js';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import {
   View,
   TextInput,
   TouchableOpacity,
   Platform,
   Text,
   ActivityIndicator,
   TouchableWithoutFeedback,
   NativeAppEventEmitter,
 } from 'react-native';
 import { TextInputKeyboardMangerIOS } from 'react-native-keyboard-input';
 import Animated, {
   EasingNode,
   FadeInDown,
   FadeOutDown,
 } from 'react-native-reanimated';
 import { useDispatch } from 'react-redux';
 
 import {
   moveDraftActionType,
   updateDraftActionType,
 } from 'lib/actions/draft-actions.js';
 import {
   joinThreadActionTypes,
   joinThread,
   newThreadActionTypes,
 } from 'lib/actions/thread-actions.js';
 import { createLoadingStatusSelector } from 'lib/selectors/loading-selectors.js';
 import { threadInfoSelector } from 'lib/selectors/thread-selectors.js';
 import { userStoreMentionSearchIndex } from 'lib/selectors/user-selectors.js';
 import { colorIsDark } from 'lib/shared/color-utils.js';
 import { useEditMessage } from 'lib/shared/edit-messages-utils.js';
 import {
   getMentionTypeaheadUserSuggestions,
+  getMentionTypeaheadChatSuggestions,
   getTypeaheadRegexMatches,
   type Selection,
   getUserMentionsCandidates,
 } from 'lib/shared/mention-utils.js';
 import {
   useNextLocalID,
   trimMessage,
   useMessagePreview,
   messageKey,
   type MessagePreviewResult,
 } from 'lib/shared/message-utils.js';
 import SentencePrefixSearchIndex from 'lib/shared/sentence-prefix-search-index.js';
 import {
   threadHasPermission,
   viewerIsMember,
   threadFrozenDueToViewerBlock,
   threadActualMembers,
   checkIfDefaultMembersAreVoiced,
   draftKeyFromThreadID,
   useThreadChatMentionCandidates,
+  useThreadChatMentionSearchIndex,
 } from 'lib/shared/thread-utils.js';
 import type { CalendarQuery } from 'lib/types/entry-types.js';
 import type { LoadingStatus } from 'lib/types/loading-types.js';
 import type { PhotoPaste } from 'lib/types/media-types.js';
 import { messageTypes } from 'lib/types/message-types-enum.js';
 import type {
   SendEditMessageResponse,
   MessageInfo,
 } from 'lib/types/message-types.js';
 import type { Dispatch } from 'lib/types/redux-types.js';
 import { threadPermissions } from 'lib/types/thread-permission-types.js';
 import type {
   ThreadInfo,
   ClientThreadJoinRequest,
   ThreadJoinPayload,
   RelativeMemberInfo,
+  ChatMentionCandidates,
 } from 'lib/types/thread-types.js';
 import { type UserInfos } from 'lib/types/user-types.js';
 import {
   type DispatchActionPromise,
   useServerCall,
   useDispatchActionPromise,
 } from 'lib/utils/action-utils.js';
 
 import { ChatContext } from './chat-context.js';
 import type { ChatNavigationProp } from './chat.react.js';
 import {
   MessageEditingContext,
   type MessageEditingContextType,
 } from './message-editing-context.react.js';
 import type { RemoveEditMode } from './message-list-types.js';
 import TypeaheadTooltip from './typeahead-tooltip.react.js';
 import MentionTypeaheadTooltipButton from '../chat/mention-typeahead-tooltip-button.react.js';
 import Button from '../components/button.react.js';
 // eslint-disable-next-line import/extensions
 import ClearableTextInput from '../components/clearable-text-input.react';
 import type { SyncedSelectionData } from '../components/selectable-text-input.js';
 // eslint-disable-next-line import/extensions
 import SelectableTextInput from '../components/selectable-text-input.react';
 import SingleLine from '../components/single-line.react.js';
 import SWMansionIcon from '../components/swmansion-icon.react.js';
 import {
   type InputState,
   InputStateContext,
   type EditInputBarMessageParameters,
 } from '../input/input-state.js';
 import KeyboardInputHost from '../keyboard/keyboard-input-host.react.js';
 import {
   type KeyboardState,
   KeyboardContext,
 } from '../keyboard/keyboard-state.js';
 import { getKeyboardHeight } from '../keyboard/keyboard.js';
 import { getDefaultTextMessageRules } from '../markdown/rules.react.js';
 import {
   nonThreadCalendarQuery,
   activeThreadSelector,
 } from '../navigation/nav-selectors.js';
 import { NavContext } from '../navigation/navigation-context.js';
 import { OverlayContext } from '../navigation/overlay-context.js';
 import type { OverlayContextType } from '../navigation/overlay-context.js';
 import {
   type NavigationRoute,
   ChatCameraModalRouteName,
   ImagePasteModalRouteName,
 } from '../navigation/route-names.js';
 import { useSelector } from '../redux/redux-utils.js';
 import { type Colors, useStyles, useColors } from '../themes/colors.js';
 import type { LayoutEvent } from '../types/react-native.js';
 import { type AnimatedViewStyle, AnimatedView } from '../types/styles.js';
 import Alert from '../utils/alert.js';
 import { runTiming } from '../utils/animation-utils.js';
 import { exitEditAlert } from '../utils/edit-messages-utils.js';
 import {
   nativeMentionTypeaheadRegex,
   mentionTypeaheadTooltipActions,
 } from '../utils/typeahead-utils.js';
 
 /* eslint-disable import/no-named-as-default-member */
 const { Value, Clock, block, set, cond, neq, sub, interpolateNode, stopClock } =
   Animated;
 /* eslint-enable import/no-named-as-default-member */
 
 const expandoButtonsAnimationConfig = {
   duration: 150,
   easing: EasingNode.inOut(EasingNode.ease),
 };
 const sendButtonAnimationConfig = {
   duration: 150,
   easing: EasingNode.inOut(EasingNode.ease),
 };
 
 type BaseProps = {
   +threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 };
 type Props = {
   ...BaseProps,
   +viewerID: ?string,
   +draft: string,
   +joinThreadLoadingStatus: LoadingStatus,
   +threadCreationInProgress: boolean,
   +calendarQuery: () => CalendarQuery,
   +nextLocalID: string,
   +userInfos: UserInfos,
   +colors: Colors,
   +styles: typeof unboundStyles,
   +onInputBarLayout?: (event: LayoutEvent) => mixed,
   +openCamera: () => mixed,
   +isActive: boolean,
   +keyboardState: ?KeyboardState,
   +dispatch: Dispatch,
   +dispatchActionPromise: DispatchActionPromise,
   +joinThread: (request: ClientThreadJoinRequest) => Promise<ThreadJoinPayload>,
   +inputState: ?InputState,
   +userSearchIndex: SentencePrefixSearchIndex,
   +userMentionsCandidates: $ReadOnlyArray<RelativeMemberInfo>,
+  +chatMentionSearchIndex: SentencePrefixSearchIndex,
+  +chatMentionCandidates: ChatMentionCandidates,
   +parentThreadInfo: ?ThreadInfo,
   +editedMessagePreview: ?MessagePreviewResult,
   +editedMessageInfo: ?MessageInfo,
   +editMessage: (
     messageID: string,
     text: string,
   ) => Promise<SendEditMessageResponse>,
   +navigation: ?ChatNavigationProp<'MessageList'>,
   +overlayContext: ?OverlayContextType,
   +messageEditingContext: ?MessageEditingContextType,
 };
 type State = {
   +text: string,
   +textEdited: boolean,
   +buttonsExpanded: boolean,
   +selectionState: SyncedSelectionData,
   +isExitingDuringEditMode: boolean,
 };
 class ChatInputBar extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
   textInput: ?React.ElementRef<typeof TextInput>;
   clearableTextInput: ?ClearableTextInput;
   selectableTextInput: ?React.ElementRef<typeof SelectableTextInput>;
 
   expandoButtonsOpen: Value;
   targetExpandoButtonsOpen: Value;
   expandoButtonsStyle: AnimatedViewStyle;
   cameraRollIconStyle: AnimatedViewStyle;
   cameraIconStyle: AnimatedViewStyle;
   expandIconStyle: AnimatedViewStyle;
 
   sendButtonContainerOpen: Value;
   targetSendButtonContainerOpen: Value;
   sendButtonContainerStyle: AnimatedViewStyle;
 
   clearBeforeRemoveListener: () => void;
   clearFocusListener: () => void;
   clearBlurListener: () => void;
 
   constructor(props: Props) {
     super(props);
     this.state = {
       text: props.draft,
       textEdited: false,
       buttonsExpanded: true,
       selectionState: { text: props.draft, selection: { start: 0, end: 0 } },
       isExitingDuringEditMode: false,
     };
 
     this.setUpActionIconAnimations();
     this.setUpSendIconAnimations();
   }
 
   setUpActionIconAnimations() {
     this.expandoButtonsOpen = new Value(1);
     this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen = new Value(1);
     const prevTargetExpandoButtonsOpen = new Value(1);
     const expandoButtonClock = new Clock();
     const expandoButtonsOpen = block([
       cond(neq(this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen, prevTargetExpandoButtonsOpen), [
         stopClock(expandoButtonClock),
         set(prevTargetExpandoButtonsOpen, this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen),
       ]),
       cond(
         neq(this.expandoButtonsOpen, this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen),
         set(
           this.expandoButtonsOpen,
           runTiming(
             expandoButtonClock,
             this.expandoButtonsOpen,
             this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen,
             true,
             expandoButtonsAnimationConfig,
           ),
         ),
       ),
       this.expandoButtonsOpen,
     ]);
 
     this.cameraRollIconStyle = {
       ...unboundStyles.cameraRollIcon,
       opacity: expandoButtonsOpen,
     };
     this.cameraIconStyle = {
       ...unboundStyles.cameraIcon,
       opacity: expandoButtonsOpen,
     };
 
     const expandoButtonsWidth = interpolateNode(expandoButtonsOpen, {
       inputRange: [0, 1],
       outputRange: [26, 66],
     });
     this.expandoButtonsStyle = {
       ...unboundStyles.expandoButtons,
       width: expandoButtonsWidth,
     };
 
     const expandOpacity = sub(1, expandoButtonsOpen);
     this.expandIconStyle = {
       ...unboundStyles.expandIcon,
       opacity: expandOpacity,
     };
   }
 
   setUpSendIconAnimations() {
     const initialSendButtonContainerOpen = trimMessage(this.props.draft)
       ? 1
       : 0;
     this.sendButtonContainerOpen = new Value(initialSendButtonContainerOpen);
     this.targetSendButtonContainerOpen = new Value(
       initialSendButtonContainerOpen,
     );
     const prevTargetSendButtonContainerOpen = new Value(
       initialSendButtonContainerOpen,
     );
     const sendButtonClock = new Clock();
     const sendButtonContainerOpen = block([
       cond(
         neq(
           this.targetSendButtonContainerOpen,
           prevTargetSendButtonContainerOpen,
         ),
         [
           stopClock(sendButtonClock),
           set(
             prevTargetSendButtonContainerOpen,
             this.targetSendButtonContainerOpen,
           ),
         ],
       ),
       cond(
         neq(this.sendButtonContainerOpen, this.targetSendButtonContainerOpen),
         set(
           this.sendButtonContainerOpen,
           runTiming(
             sendButtonClock,
             this.sendButtonContainerOpen,
             this.targetSendButtonContainerOpen,
             true,
             sendButtonAnimationConfig,
           ),
         ),
       ),
       this.sendButtonContainerOpen,
     ]);
 
     const sendButtonContainerWidth = interpolateNode(sendButtonContainerOpen, {
       inputRange: [0, 1],
       outputRange: [4, 38],
     });
     this.sendButtonContainerStyle = { width: sendButtonContainerWidth };
   }
 
   static mediaGalleryOpen(props: Props) {
     const { keyboardState } = props;
     return !!(keyboardState && keyboardState.mediaGalleryOpen);
   }
 
   static systemKeyboardShowing(props: Props) {
     const { keyboardState } = props;
     return !!(keyboardState && keyboardState.systemKeyboardShowing);
   }
 
   get systemKeyboardShowing() {
     return ChatInputBar.systemKeyboardShowing(this.props);
   }
 
   immediatelyShowSendButton() {
     this.sendButtonContainerOpen.setValue(1);
     this.targetSendButtonContainerOpen.setValue(1);
   }
 
   updateSendButton(currentText: string) {
     if (this.shouldShowTextInput) {
       this.targetSendButtonContainerOpen.setValue(currentText === '' ? 0 : 1);
     } else {
       this.setUpSendIconAnimations();
     }
   }
 
   componentDidMount() {
     const { isActive, navigation } = this.props;
     if (isActive) {
       this.addEditInputMessageListener();
     }
     if (!navigation) {
       return;
     }
     this.clearBeforeRemoveListener = navigation.addListener(
       'beforeRemove',
       this.onNavigationBeforeRemove,
     );
     this.clearFocusListener = navigation.addListener(
       'focus',
       this.onNavigationFocus,
     );
     this.clearBlurListener = navigation.addListener(
       'blur',
       this.onNavigationBlur,
     );
   }
 
   componentWillUnmount() {
     if (this.props.isActive) {
       this.removeEditInputMessageListener();
     }
     if (this.clearBeforeRemoveListener) {
       this.clearBeforeRemoveListener();
     }
     if (this.clearFocusListener) {
       this.clearFocusListener();
     }
     if (this.clearBlurListener) {
       this.clearBlurListener();
     }
   }
 
   componentDidUpdate(prevProps: Props, prevState: State) {
     if (
       this.state.textEdited &&
       this.state.text &&
       this.props.threadInfo.id !== prevProps.threadInfo.id
     ) {
       this.props.dispatch({
         type: moveDraftActionType,
         payload: {
           oldKey: draftKeyFromThreadID(prevProps.threadInfo.id),
           newKey: draftKeyFromThreadID(this.props.threadInfo.id),
         },
       });
     } else if (!this.state.textEdited && this.props.draft !== prevProps.draft) {
       this.setState({ text: this.props.draft });
     }
     if (this.props.isActive && !prevProps.isActive) {
       this.addEditInputMessageListener();
     } else if (!this.props.isActive && prevProps.isActive) {
       this.removeEditInputMessageListener();
     }
 
     const currentText = trimMessage(this.state.text);
     const prevText = trimMessage(prevState.text);
 
     if (
       (currentText === '' && prevText !== '') ||
       (currentText !== '' && prevText === '')
     ) {
       this.updateSendButton(currentText);
     }
 
     const systemKeyboardIsShowing = ChatInputBar.systemKeyboardShowing(
       this.props,
     );
     const systemKeyboardWasShowing =
       ChatInputBar.systemKeyboardShowing(prevProps);
     if (systemKeyboardIsShowing && !systemKeyboardWasShowing) {
       this.hideButtons();
     } else if (!systemKeyboardIsShowing && systemKeyboardWasShowing) {
       this.expandButtons();
     }
 
     const imageGalleryIsOpen = ChatInputBar.mediaGalleryOpen(this.props);
     const imageGalleryWasOpen = ChatInputBar.mediaGalleryOpen(prevProps);
     if (!imageGalleryIsOpen && imageGalleryWasOpen) {
       this.hideButtons();
     } else if (imageGalleryIsOpen && !imageGalleryWasOpen) {
       this.expandButtons();
       this.setIOSKeyboardHeight();
     }
 
     if (
       this.props.messageEditingContext?.editState.editedMessage &&
       !prevProps.messageEditingContext?.editState.editedMessage
     ) {
       this.blockNavigation();
     }
   }
 
   addEditInputMessageListener() {
     invariant(
       this.props.inputState,
       'inputState should be set in addEditInputMessageListener',
     );
     this.props.inputState.addEditInputMessageListener(this.focusAndUpdateText);
   }
 
   removeEditInputMessageListener() {
     invariant(
       this.props.inputState,
       'inputState should be set in removeEditInputMessageListener',
     );
     this.props.inputState.removeEditInputMessageListener(
       this.focusAndUpdateText,
     );
   }
 
   setIOSKeyboardHeight() {
     if (Platform.OS !== 'ios') {
       return;
     }
     const { textInput } = this;
     if (!textInput) {
       return;
     }
     const keyboardHeight = getKeyboardHeight();
     if (keyboardHeight === null || keyboardHeight === undefined) {
       return;
     }
     TextInputKeyboardMangerIOS.setKeyboardHeight(textInput, keyboardHeight);
   }
 
   get shouldShowTextInput(): boolean {
     if (threadHasPermission(this.props.threadInfo, threadPermissions.VOICED)) {
       return true;
     }
     // If the thread is created by somebody else while the viewer is attempting
     // to create it, the threadInfo might be modified in-place
     // and won't list the viewer as a member,
     // which will end up hiding the input.
     // In this case, we will assume that our creation action
     // will get translated into a join, and as long
     // as members are voiced, we can show the input.
     if (!this.props.threadCreationInProgress) {
       return false;
     }
     return checkIfDefaultMembersAreVoiced(this.props.threadInfo);
   }
 
   render() {
     const isMember = viewerIsMember(this.props.threadInfo);
     const canJoin = threadHasPermission(
       this.props.threadInfo,
       threadPermissions.JOIN_THREAD,
     );
     let joinButton = null;
     const threadColor = `#${this.props.threadInfo.color}`;
     const isEditMode = this.isEditMode();
     if (!isMember && canJoin && !this.props.threadCreationInProgress) {
       let buttonContent;
       if (this.props.joinThreadLoadingStatus === 'loading') {
         buttonContent = (
           <ActivityIndicator
             size="small"
             color="white"
             style={this.props.styles.joinThreadLoadingIndicator}
           />
         );
       } else {
         const textStyle = colorIsDark(this.props.threadInfo.color)
           ? this.props.styles.joinButtonTextLight
           : this.props.styles.joinButtonTextDark;
         buttonContent = (
           <View style={this.props.styles.joinButtonContent}>
             <SWMansionIcon name="plus" style={textStyle} />
             <Text style={textStyle}>Join Chat</Text>
           </View>
         );
       }
       joinButton = (
         <View style={this.props.styles.joinButtonContainer}>
           <Button
             onPress={this.onPressJoin}
             iosActiveOpacity={0.85}
             style={[
               this.props.styles.joinButton,
               { backgroundColor: threadColor },
             ]}
           >
             {buttonContent}
           </Button>
         </View>
       );
     }
 
     const typeaheadRegexMatches = getTypeaheadRegexMatches(
       this.state.selectionState.text,
       this.state.selectionState.selection,
       nativeMentionTypeaheadRegex,
     );
 
     let typeaheadTooltip = null;
 
     if (typeaheadRegexMatches && !isEditMode) {
       const typeaheadMatchedStrings = {
         textBeforeAtSymbol: typeaheadRegexMatches[1] ?? '',
         query: typeaheadRegexMatches[4] ?? '',
       };
 
       const suggestedUsers = getMentionTypeaheadUserSuggestions(
         this.props.userSearchIndex,
         this.props.userMentionsCandidates,
         this.props.viewerID,
         typeaheadMatchedStrings.query,
       );
+      const suggestedChats = getMentionTypeaheadChatSuggestions(
+        this.props.chatMentionSearchIndex,
+        this.props.chatMentionCandidates,
+        typeaheadMatchedStrings.query,
+      );
+      const suggestions = [...suggestedUsers, ...suggestedChats];
 
-      if (suggestedUsers.length > 0) {
+      if (suggestions.length > 0) {
         typeaheadTooltip = (
           <TypeaheadTooltip
             text={this.state.text}
             matchedStrings={typeaheadMatchedStrings}
-            suggestions={suggestedUsers}
+            suggestions={suggestions}
             focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection={this.focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection}
             typeaheadTooltipActionsGetter={mentionTypeaheadTooltipActions}
             TypeaheadTooltipButtonComponent={MentionTypeaheadTooltipButton}
           />
         );
       }
     }
 
     let content;
     const defaultMembersAreVoiced = checkIfDefaultMembersAreVoiced(
       this.props.threadInfo,
     );
     if (this.shouldShowTextInput) {
       content = this.renderInput();
     } else if (
       threadFrozenDueToViewerBlock(
         this.props.threadInfo,
         this.props.viewerID,
         this.props.userInfos,
       ) &&
       threadActualMembers(this.props.threadInfo.members).length === 2
     ) {
       content = (
         <Text style={this.props.styles.explanation}>
           You can&rsquo;t send messages to a user that you&rsquo;ve blocked.
         </Text>
       );
     } else if (isMember) {
       content = (
         <Text style={this.props.styles.explanation}>
           You don&rsquo;t have permission to send messages.
         </Text>
       );
     } else if (defaultMembersAreVoiced && canJoin) {
       content = null;
     } else {
       content = (
         <Text style={this.props.styles.explanation}>
           You don&rsquo;t have permission to send messages.
         </Text>
       );
     }
 
     const keyboardInputHost =
       Platform.OS === 'android' ? null : (
         <KeyboardInputHost textInputRef={this.textInput} />
       );
 
     let editedMessage;
     if (isEditMode && this.props.editedMessagePreview) {
       const { message } = this.props.editedMessagePreview;
       editedMessage = (
         <AnimatedView
           style={this.props.styles.editView}
           entering={FadeInDown}
           exiting={FadeOutDown}
         >
           <View style={this.props.styles.editViewContent}>
             <TouchableOpacity
               onPress={this.scrollToEditedMessage}
               activeOpacity={0.4}
             >
               <Text
                 style={[{ color: threadColor }, this.props.styles.editingLabel]}
               >
                 Editing message
               </Text>
               <SingleLine style={this.props.styles.editingMessagePreview}>
                 {message.text}
               </SingleLine>
             </TouchableOpacity>
           </View>
           <SWMansionIcon
             style={this.props.styles.exitEditButton}
             name="cross"
             size={22}
             color={threadColor}
             onPress={this.onPressExitEditMode}
           />
         </AnimatedView>
       );
     }
 
     return (
       <AnimatedView
         style={this.props.styles.container}
         onLayout={this.props.onInputBarLayout}
       >
         {typeaheadTooltip}
         {joinButton}
         {editedMessage}
         {content}
         {keyboardInputHost}
       </AnimatedView>
     );
   }
 
   renderInput() {
     const expandoButton = (
       <TouchableOpacity
         onPress={this.expandButtons}
         activeOpacity={0.4}
         style={this.props.styles.expandButton}
       >
         <AnimatedView style={this.expandIconStyle}>
           <SWMansionIcon
             name="chevron-right"
             size={22}
             color={`#${this.props.threadInfo.color}`}
           />
         </AnimatedView>
       </TouchableOpacity>
     );
     const threadColor = `#${this.props.threadInfo.color}`;
     const expandoButtonsViewStyle = [this.props.styles.innerExpandoButtons];
     if (this.isEditMode()) {
       expandoButtonsViewStyle.push({ display: 'none' });
     }
     return (
       <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={this.dismissKeyboard}>
         <View style={this.props.styles.inputContainer}>
           <AnimatedView style={this.expandoButtonsStyle}>
             <View style={expandoButtonsViewStyle}>
               {this.state.buttonsExpanded ? expandoButton : null}
               <TouchableOpacity
                 onPress={this.showMediaGallery}
                 activeOpacity={0.4}
               >
                 <AnimatedView style={this.cameraRollIconStyle}>
                   <SWMansionIcon
                     name="image-1"
                     size={28}
                     color={`#${this.props.threadInfo.color}`}
                   />
                 </AnimatedView>
               </TouchableOpacity>
               <TouchableOpacity
                 onPress={this.props.openCamera}
                 activeOpacity={0.4}
                 disabled={!this.state.buttonsExpanded}
               >
                 <AnimatedView style={this.cameraIconStyle}>
                   <SWMansionIcon
                     name="camera"
                     size={28}
                     color={`#${this.props.threadInfo.color}`}
                   />
                 </AnimatedView>
               </TouchableOpacity>
               {this.state.buttonsExpanded ? null : expandoButton}
             </View>
           </AnimatedView>
           <SelectableTextInput
             allowImagePasteForThreadID={this.props.threadInfo.id}
             value={this.state.text}
             onChangeText={this.updateText}
             selection={this.state.selectionState.selection}
             onUpdateSyncedSelectionData={this.updateSelectionState}
             placeholder="Send a message..."
             placeholderTextColor={this.props.colors.listInputButton}
             multiline={true}
             style={this.props.styles.textInput}
             textInputRef={this.textInputRef}
             clearableTextInputRef={this.clearableTextInputRef}
             ref={this.selectableTextInputRef}
             selectionColor={`#${this.props.threadInfo.color}`}
           />
           <AnimatedView style={this.sendButtonContainerStyle}>
             <TouchableOpacity
               onPress={this.onSend}
               activeOpacity={0.4}
               style={this.props.styles.sendButton}
               disabled={trimMessage(this.state.text) === ''}
             >
               <Icon
                 name="md-send"
                 size={25}
                 style={this.props.styles.sendIcon}
                 color={threadColor}
               />
             </TouchableOpacity>
           </AnimatedView>
         </View>
       </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
     );
   }
 
   textInputRef = (textInput: ?React.ElementRef<typeof TextInput>) => {
     this.textInput = textInput;
   };
 
   clearableTextInputRef = (clearableTextInput: ?ClearableTextInput) => {
     this.clearableTextInput = clearableTextInput;
   };
 
   selectableTextInputRef = (
     selectableTextInput: ?React.ElementRef<typeof SelectableTextInput>,
   ) => {
     this.selectableTextInput = selectableTextInput;
   };
 
   updateText = (text: string) => {
     if (this.state.isExitingDuringEditMode) {
       return;
     }
     this.setState({ text, textEdited: true });
     this.props.messageEditingContext?.setEditedMessageChanged(
       this.isMessageEdited(text),
     );
     if (this.isEditMode()) {
       return;
     }
     this.saveDraft(text);
   };
 
   updateSelectionState: (data: SyncedSelectionData) => void = data => {
     this.setState({ selectionState: data });
   };
 
   saveDraft = _throttle(text => {
     this.props.dispatch({
       type: updateDraftActionType,
       payload: {
         key: draftKeyFromThreadID(this.props.threadInfo.id),
         text,
       },
     });
   }, 400);
 
   focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection = (text: string, selection: Selection) => {
     this.selectableTextInput?.prepareForSelectionMutation(text, selection);
     this.setState({
       text,
       textEdited: true,
       selectionState: { text, selection },
     });
     this.saveDraft(text);
 
     this.focusAndUpdateButtonsVisibility();
   };
 
   focusAndUpdateText = (params: EditInputBarMessageParameters) => {
     const { message: text, mode } = params;
     const currentText = this.state.text;
     if (mode === 'replace') {
       this.updateText(text);
     } else if (!currentText.startsWith(text)) {
       const prependedText = text.concat(currentText);
       this.updateText(prependedText);
     }
 
     this.focusAndUpdateButtonsVisibility();
   };
 
   focusAndUpdateButtonsVisibility = () => {
     const { textInput } = this;
     if (!textInput) {
       return;
     }
 
     this.immediatelyShowSendButton();
     this.immediatelyHideButtons();
     textInput.focus();
   };
 
   onSend = async () => {
     if (!trimMessage(this.state.text)) {
       return;
     }
 
     const editedMessage = this.getEditedMessage();
     if (editedMessage && editedMessage.id) {
       this.editMessage(editedMessage.id, this.state.text);
       return;
     }
 
     this.updateSendButton('');
 
     const { clearableTextInput } = this;
     invariant(
       clearableTextInput,
       'clearableTextInput should be sent in onSend',
     );
     let text = await clearableTextInput.getValueAndReset();
     text = trimMessage(text);
     if (!text) {
       return;
     }
 
     const localID = this.props.nextLocalID;
     const creatorID = this.props.viewerID;
     invariant(creatorID, 'should have viewer ID in order to send a message');
     invariant(
       this.props.inputState,
       'inputState should be set in ChatInputBar.onSend',
     );
 
     this.props.inputState.sendTextMessage(
       {
         type: messageTypes.TEXT,
         localID,
         threadID: this.props.threadInfo.id,
         text,
         creatorID,
         time: Date.now(),
       },
       this.props.threadInfo,
       this.props.parentThreadInfo,
     );
   };
 
   isEditMode = () => {
     const editState = this.props.messageEditingContext?.editState;
     const isThisThread =
       editState?.editedMessage?.threadID === this.props.threadInfo.id;
     return editState && editState.editedMessage !== null && isThisThread;
   };
 
   isMessageEdited = newText => {
     let text = newText ?? this.state.text;
     text = trimMessage(text);
     const originalText = this.props.editedMessageInfo?.text;
     return text !== originalText;
   };
 
   unblockNavigation = () => {
     const { navigation } = this.props;
     if (!navigation) {
       return;
     }
     navigation.setParams({ removeEditMode: null });
   };
 
   removeEditMode: RemoveEditMode = action => {
     const { navigation } = this.props;
     if (!navigation || this.state.isExitingDuringEditMode) {
       return 'ignore_action';
     }
     if (!this.isMessageEdited()) {
       this.unblockNavigation();
       return 'reduce_action';
     }
     const unblockAndDispatch = () => {
       this.unblockNavigation();
       navigation.dispatch(action);
     };
     const onContinueEditing = () => {
       this.props.overlayContext?.resetScrollBlockingModalStatus();
     };
     exitEditAlert({
       onDiscard: unblockAndDispatch,
       onContinueEditing,
     });
     return 'ignore_action';
   };
 
   blockNavigation = () => {
     const { navigation } = this.props;
     if (!navigation || !navigation.isFocused()) {
       return;
     }
     navigation.setParams({
       removeEditMode: this.removeEditMode,
     });
   };
 
   editMessage = async (messageID: string, text: string) => {
     if (!this.isMessageEdited()) {
       this.exitEditMode();
       return;
     }
     text = trimMessage(text);
     try {
       await this.props.editMessage(messageID, text);
       this.exitEditMode();
     } catch (error) {
       Alert.alert(
         'Couldn’t edit the message',
         'Please try again later',
         [{ text: 'OK' }],
         {
           cancelable: true,
         },
       );
     }
   };
 
   getEditedMessage = () => {
     const editState = this.props.messageEditingContext?.editState;
     return editState?.editedMessage;
   };
 
   onPressExitEditMode = () => {
     if (!this.isMessageEdited()) {
       this.exitEditMode();
       return;
     }
     exitEditAlert({
       onDiscard: this.exitEditMode,
     });
   };
 
   scrollToEditedMessage = () => {
     const editedMessage = this.getEditedMessage();
     if (!editedMessage) {
       return;
     }
     const editedMessageKey = messageKey(editedMessage);
     this.props.inputState?.scrollToMessage(editedMessageKey);
   };
 
   exitEditMode = () => {
     this.props.messageEditingContext?.setEditedMessage(null, () => {
       this.unblockNavigation();
       this.updateText(this.props.draft);
       this.focusAndUpdateButtonsVisibility();
       this.updateSendButton(this.props.draft);
     });
   };
 
   onNavigationFocus = () => {
     this.setState({ isExitingDuringEditMode: false });
   };
 
   onNavigationBlur = () => {
     if (!this.isEditMode()) {
       return;
     }
     this.setState(
       { text: this.props.draft, isExitingDuringEditMode: true },
       this.exitEditMode,
     );
   };
 
   onNavigationBeforeRemove = e => {
     if (!this.isEditMode()) {
       return;
     }
     const { action } = e.data;
     e.preventDefault();
     const saveExit = () => {
       this.props.messageEditingContext?.setEditedMessage(null, () => {
         this.setState({ isExitingDuringEditMode: true }, () => {
           if (!this.props.navigation) {
             return;
           }
           this.props.navigation.dispatch(action);
         });
       });
     };
     if (!this.isMessageEdited()) {
       saveExit();
       return;
     }
     exitEditAlert({
       onDiscard: saveExit,
     });
   };
 
   onPressJoin = () => {
     this.props.dispatchActionPromise(joinThreadActionTypes, this.joinAction());
   };
 
   async joinAction() {
     const query = this.props.calendarQuery();
     return await this.props.joinThread({
       threadID: this.props.threadInfo.id,
       calendarQuery: {
         startDate: query.startDate,
         endDate: query.endDate,
         filters: [
           ...query.filters,
           { type: 'threads', threadIDs: [this.props.threadInfo.id] },
         ],
       },
     });
   }
 
   expandButtons = () => {
     if (this.state.buttonsExpanded || this.isEditMode()) {
       return;
     }
     this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen.setValue(1);
     this.setState({ buttonsExpanded: true });
   };
 
   hideButtons() {
     if (
       ChatInputBar.mediaGalleryOpen(this.props) ||
       !this.systemKeyboardShowing ||
       !this.state.buttonsExpanded
     ) {
       return;
     }
     this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen.setValue(0);
     this.setState({ buttonsExpanded: false });
   }
 
   immediatelyHideButtons() {
     this.expandoButtonsOpen.setValue(0);
     this.targetExpandoButtonsOpen.setValue(0);
     this.setState({ buttonsExpanded: false });
   }
 
   showMediaGallery = () => {
     const { keyboardState } = this.props;
     invariant(keyboardState, 'keyboardState should be initialized');
     keyboardState.showMediaGallery(this.props.threadInfo);
   };
 
   dismissKeyboard = () => {
     const { keyboardState } = this.props;
     keyboardState && keyboardState.dismissKeyboard();
   };
 }
 
 const unboundStyles = {
   cameraIcon: {
     paddingBottom: Platform.OS === 'android' ? 11 : 8,
     paddingRight: 5,
   },
   cameraRollIcon: {
     paddingBottom: Platform.OS === 'android' ? 11 : 8,
     paddingRight: 5,
   },
   container: {
     backgroundColor: 'listBackground',
     paddingLeft: Platform.OS === 'android' ? 10 : 5,
   },
   expandButton: {
     bottom: 0,
     position: 'absolute',
     right: 0,
   },
   expandIcon: {
     paddingBottom: Platform.OS === 'android' ? 13 : 11,
     paddingRight: 2,
   },
   expandoButtons: {
     alignSelf: 'flex-end',
   },
   explanation: {
     color: 'listBackgroundSecondaryLabel',
     paddingBottom: 4,
     paddingTop: 1,
     textAlign: 'center',
   },
   innerExpandoButtons: {
     alignItems: 'flex-end',
     alignSelf: 'flex-end',
     flexDirection: 'row',
   },
   inputContainer: {
     flexDirection: 'row',
   },
   joinButton: {
     borderRadius: 8,
     flex: 1,
     justifyContent: 'center',
     marginHorizontal: 12,
     marginVertical: 3,
   },
   joinButtonContainer: {
     flexDirection: 'row',
     height: 48,
     marginBottom: 8,
   },
   editView: {
     marginLeft: 20,
     marginRight: 20,
     padding: 10,
     flexDirection: 'row',
     justifyContent: 'space-between',
   },
   editViewContent: {
     flex: 1,
     paddingRight: 6,
   },
   exitEditButton: {
     marginTop: 6,
   },
   editingLabel: {
     paddingBottom: 4,
   },
   editingMessagePreview: {
     color: 'listForegroundLabel',
   },
   joinButtonContent: {
     flexDirection: 'row',
     justifyContent: 'center',
     alignItems: 'center',
   },
   joinButtonTextLight: {
     color: 'white',
     fontSize: 20,
     marginHorizontal: 4,
   },
   joinButtonTextDark: {
     color: 'black',
     fontSize: 20,
     marginHorizontal: 4,
   },
   joinThreadLoadingIndicator: {
     paddingVertical: 2,
   },
   sendButton: {
     position: 'absolute',
     bottom: 4,
     left: 0,
   },
   sendIcon: {
     paddingLeft: 9,
     paddingRight: 8,
     paddingVertical: 6,
   },
   textInput: {
     backgroundColor: 'listInputBackground',
     borderRadius: 8,
     color: 'listForegroundLabel',
     fontSize: 16,
     marginLeft: 4,
     marginRight: 4,
     marginTop: 6,
     marginBottom: 8,
     maxHeight: 110,
     paddingHorizontal: 10,
     paddingVertical: 5,
   },
 };
 
 const joinThreadLoadingStatusSelector = createLoadingStatusSelector(
   joinThreadActionTypes,
 );
 const createThreadLoadingStatusSelector =
   createLoadingStatusSelector(newThreadActionTypes);
 
 type ConnectedChatInputBarBaseProps = {
   ...BaseProps,
   +onInputBarLayout?: (event: LayoutEvent) => mixed,
   +openCamera: () => mixed,
   +navigation?: ChatNavigationProp<'MessageList'>,
 };
 function ConnectedChatInputBarBase(props: ConnectedChatInputBarBaseProps) {
   const navContext = React.useContext(NavContext);
   const keyboardState = React.useContext(KeyboardContext);
   const inputState = React.useContext(InputStateContext);
   const overlayContext = React.useContext(OverlayContext);
 
   const viewerID = useSelector(
     state => state.currentUserInfo && state.currentUserInfo.id,
   );
   const draft = useSelector(
     state =>
       state.draftStore.drafts[draftKeyFromThreadID(props.threadInfo.id)] ?? '',
   );
   const joinThreadLoadingStatus = useSelector(joinThreadLoadingStatusSelector);
   const createThreadLoadingStatus = useSelector(
     createThreadLoadingStatusSelector,
   );
   const threadCreationInProgress = createThreadLoadingStatus === 'loading';
   const calendarQuery = useSelector(state =>
     nonThreadCalendarQuery({
       redux: state,
       navContext,
     }),
   );
   const nextLocalID = useNextLocalID();
   const userInfos = useSelector(state => state.userStore.userInfos);
 
   const styles = useStyles(unboundStyles);
   const colors = useColors();
 
   const isActive = React.useMemo(
     () => props.threadInfo.id === activeThreadSelector(navContext),
     [props.threadInfo.id, navContext],
   );
 
   const dispatch = useDispatch();
   const dispatchActionPromise = useDispatchActionPromise();
   const callJoinThread = useServerCall(joinThread);
 
   const userSearchIndex = useSelector(userStoreMentionSearchIndex);
 
+  const chatMentionSearchIndex = useThreadChatMentionSearchIndex(
+    props.threadInfo,
+  );
+
   const { parentThreadID } = props.threadInfo;
   const parentThreadInfo = useSelector(state =>
     parentThreadID ? threadInfoSelector(state)[parentThreadID] : null,
   );
 
   const userMentionsCandidates = getUserMentionsCandidates(
     props.threadInfo,
     parentThreadInfo,
   );
 
   const chatMentionCandidates = useThreadChatMentionCandidates(
     props.threadInfo,
   );
 
   const messageEditingContext = React.useContext(MessageEditingContext);
 
   const editedMessageInfo = messageEditingContext?.editState.editedMessage;
   const editedMessagePreview = useMessagePreview(
     editedMessageInfo,
     props.threadInfo,
     getDefaultTextMessageRules(chatMentionCandidates).simpleMarkdownRules,
   );
   const editMessage = useEditMessage();
 
   return (
     <ChatInputBar
       {...props}
       viewerID={viewerID}
       draft={draft}
       joinThreadLoadingStatus={joinThreadLoadingStatus}
       threadCreationInProgress={threadCreationInProgress}
       calendarQuery={calendarQuery}
       nextLocalID={nextLocalID}
       userInfos={userInfos}
       colors={colors}
       styles={styles}
       isActive={isActive}
       keyboardState={keyboardState}
       dispatch={dispatch}
       dispatchActionPromise={dispatchActionPromise}
       joinThread={callJoinThread}
       inputState={inputState}
       userSearchIndex={userSearchIndex}
       userMentionsCandidates={userMentionsCandidates}
+      chatMentionSearchIndex={chatMentionSearchIndex}
+      chatMentionCandidates={chatMentionCandidates}
       parentThreadInfo={parentThreadInfo}
       editedMessagePreview={editedMessagePreview}
       editedMessageInfo={editedMessageInfo}
       editMessage={editMessage}
       navigation={props.navigation}
       overlayContext={overlayContext}
       messageEditingContext={messageEditingContext}
     />
   );
 }
 
 type DummyChatInputBarProps = {
   ...BaseProps,
   +onHeightMeasured: (height: number) => mixed,
 };
 const noop = () => {};
 function DummyChatInputBar(props: DummyChatInputBarProps): React.Node {
   const { onHeightMeasured, ...restProps } = props;
   const onInputBarLayout = React.useCallback(
     (event: LayoutEvent) => {
       const { height } = event.nativeEvent.layout;
       onHeightMeasured(height);
     },
     [onHeightMeasured],
   );
   return (
     <View pointerEvents="none">
       <ConnectedChatInputBarBase
         {...restProps}
         onInputBarLayout={onInputBarLayout}
         openCamera={noop}
       />
     </View>
   );
 }
 
 type ChatInputBarProps = {
   ...BaseProps,
   +navigation: ChatNavigationProp<'MessageList'>,
   +route: NavigationRoute<'MessageList'>,
 };
 const ConnectedChatInputBar: React.ComponentType<ChatInputBarProps> =
   React.memo<ChatInputBarProps>(function ConnectedChatInputBar(
     props: ChatInputBarProps,
   ) {
     const { navigation, route, ...restProps } = props;
     const keyboardState = React.useContext(KeyboardContext);
 
     const { threadInfo } = props;
     const imagePastedCallback = React.useCallback(
       imagePastedEvent => {
         if (threadInfo.id !== imagePastedEvent.threadID) {
           return;
         }
         const pastedImage: PhotoPaste = {
           step: 'photo_paste',
           dimensions: {
             height: imagePastedEvent.height,
             width: imagePastedEvent.width,
           },
           filename: imagePastedEvent.fileName,
           uri: 'file://' + imagePastedEvent.filePath,
           selectTime: 0,
           sendTime: 0,
           retries: 0,
         };
         navigation.navigate<'ImagePasteModal'>({
           name: ImagePasteModalRouteName,
           params: {
             imagePasteStagingInfo: pastedImage,
             thread: threadInfo,
           },
         });
       },
       [navigation, threadInfo],
     );
 
     React.useEffect(() => {
       const imagePasteListener = NativeAppEventEmitter.addListener(
         'imagePasted',
         imagePastedCallback,
       );
       return () => imagePasteListener.remove();
     }, [imagePastedCallback]);
 
     const chatContext = React.useContext(ChatContext);
     invariant(chatContext, 'should be set');
     const { setChatInputBarHeight, deleteChatInputBarHeight } = chatContext;
     const onInputBarLayout = React.useCallback(
       (event: LayoutEvent) => {
         const { height } = event.nativeEvent.layout;
         setChatInputBarHeight(threadInfo.id, height);
       },
       [threadInfo.id, setChatInputBarHeight],
     );
 
     React.useEffect(() => {
       return () => {
         deleteChatInputBarHeight(threadInfo.id);
       };
     }, [deleteChatInputBarHeight, threadInfo.id]);
 
     const openCamera = React.useCallback(() => {
       keyboardState?.dismissKeyboard();
       navigation.navigate<'ChatCameraModal'>({
         name: ChatCameraModalRouteName,
         params: {
           presentedFrom: route.key,
           thread: threadInfo,
         },
       });
     }, [keyboardState, navigation, route.key, threadInfo]);
 
     return (
       <ConnectedChatInputBarBase
         {...restProps}
         onInputBarLayout={onInputBarLayout}
         openCamera={openCamera}
         navigation={navigation}
       />
     );
   });
 
 export { ConnectedChatInputBar as ChatInputBar, DummyChatInputBar };
diff --git a/native/chat/mention-typeahead-tooltip-button.react.js b/native/chat/mention-typeahead-tooltip-button.react.js
index 25a68709e..b350e4671 100644
--- a/native/chat/mention-typeahead-tooltip-button.react.js
+++ b/native/chat/mention-typeahead-tooltip-button.react.js
@@ -1,61 +1,70 @@
 // @flow
 
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Text } from 'react-native';
 
 import type {
   TypeaheadTooltipActionItem,
   MentionTypeaheadSuggestionItem,
 } from 'lib/shared/mention-utils.js';
 
+import ThreadAvatar from '../avatars/thread-avatar.react.js';
 import UserAvatar from '../avatars/user-avatar.react.js';
 import Button from '../components/button.react.js';
 import { useStyles } from '../themes/colors.js';
 
 type Props = {
   +item: TypeaheadTooltipActionItem<MentionTypeaheadSuggestionItem>,
 };
 function MentionTypeaheadTooltipButton(props: Props): React.Node {
   const { item } = props;
   const styles = useStyles(unboundStyles);
 
   let avatarComponent = null;
   let typeaheadTooltipButtonText = null;
   if (item.actionButtonContent.type === 'user') {
     avatarComponent = (
       <UserAvatar size="small" userID={item.actionButtonContent.userInfo.id} />
     );
     typeaheadTooltipButtonText = item.actionButtonContent.userInfo.username;
+  } else if (item.actionButtonContent.type === 'chat') {
+    typeaheadTooltipButtonText = item.actionButtonContent.threadInfo.uiName;
+    avatarComponent = (
+      <ThreadAvatar
+        size="small"
+        threadInfo={item.actionButtonContent.threadInfo}
+      />
+    );
   }
 
   return (
     <Button
       onPress={item.execute}
       style={styles.button}
       iosActiveOpacity={0.85}
     >
       {avatarComponent}
       <Text style={styles.buttonLabel} numberOfLines={1}>
         @{typeaheadTooltipButtonText}
       </Text>
     </Button>
   );
 }
 
 const unboundStyles = {
   button: {
     alignItems: 'center',
     flexDirection: 'row',
     innerHeight: 24,
     padding: 8,
     color: 'typeaheadTooltipText',
   },
   buttonLabel: {
     color: 'white',
     fontSize: 16,
     fontWeight: '400',
     marginLeft: 8,
   },
 };
 
 export default MentionTypeaheadTooltipButton;
diff --git a/native/utils/typeahead-utils.js b/native/utils/typeahead-utils.js
index 700bcc10d..6f8825a28 100644
--- a/native/utils/typeahead-utils.js
+++ b/native/utils/typeahead-utils.js
@@ -1,107 +1,107 @@
 // @flow
 
 import * as React from 'react';
 
-import { oldValidUsernameRegexString } from 'lib/shared/account-utils.js';
 import {
   getNewTextAndSelection,
   getRawChatMention,
   type Selection,
   type TypeaheadTooltipActionItem,
   type MentionTypeaheadSuggestionItem,
 } from 'lib/shared/mention-utils.js';
+import { validChatNameRegexString } from 'lib/shared/thread-utils.js';
 import { stringForUserExplicit } from 'lib/shared/user-utils.js';
 
 // Native regex is a little bit different than web one as
 // there are no named capturing groups yet on native.
 const nativeMentionTypeaheadRegex: RegExp = new RegExp(
-  `((^(.|\n)*\\s+)|^)@(${oldValidUsernameRegexString})?$`,
+  `((^(.|\n)*\\s+)|^)@(${validChatNameRegexString})?$`,
 );
 
 export type TypeaheadTooltipActionsParams<SuggestionItemType> = {
   +suggestions: $ReadOnlyArray<SuggestionItemType>,
   +textBeforeAtSymbol: string,
   +text: string,
   +query: string,
   +focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection: (text: string, selection: Selection) => void,
 };
 function mentionTypeaheadTooltipActionExecuteHandler({
   textBeforeAtSymbol,
   text,
   query,
   mentionText,
   focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection,
 }) {
   const { newText, newSelectionStart } = getNewTextAndSelection(
     textBeforeAtSymbol,
     text,
     query,
     mentionText,
   );
   focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection(newText, {
     start: newSelectionStart,
     end: newSelectionStart,
   });
 }
 function mentionTypeaheadTooltipActions({
   suggestions,
   textBeforeAtSymbol,
   text,
   query,
   focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection,
 }: TypeaheadTooltipActionsParams<MentionTypeaheadSuggestionItem>): $ReadOnlyArray<
   TypeaheadTooltipActionItem<MentionTypeaheadSuggestionItem>,
 > {
   const actions = [];
   for (const suggestion of suggestions) {
     if (suggestion.type === 'user') {
       const { userInfo } = suggestion;
       const resolvedUsername = stringForUserExplicit(userInfo);
       if (resolvedUsername === 'anonymous') {
         continue;
       }
       const mentionText = `@${resolvedUsername}`;
       actions.push({
         key: userInfo.id,
         execute: () =>
           mentionTypeaheadTooltipActionExecuteHandler({
             textBeforeAtSymbol,
             text,
             query,
             mentionText,
             focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection,
           }),
         actionButtonContent: {
           type: 'user',
           userInfo,
         },
       });
     } else if (suggestion.type === 'chat') {
       const { threadInfo } = suggestion;
       const mentionText = getRawChatMention(threadInfo);
       actions.push({
         key: threadInfo.id,
         execute: () =>
           mentionTypeaheadTooltipActionExecuteHandler({
             textBeforeAtSymbol,
             text,
             query,
             mentionText,
             focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection,
           }),
         actionButtonContent: {
           type: 'chat',
           threadInfo,
         },
       });
     }
   }
   return actions;
 }
 
 export type TypeaheadTooltipButtonComponentType<SuggestionItemType> =
   React.ComponentType<{
     +item: TypeaheadTooltipActionItem<SuggestionItemType>,
   }>;
 
 export { nativeMentionTypeaheadRegex, mentionTypeaheadTooltipActions };