Incorrect syntax for user mentions

[progval]

Steps to reproduce

Mention a user from Element iOS nightly. For example: "I DMed tpb about what’s going on but I suspect I’m just talking to a bot/service. 🤔"

Outcome

What did you expect?

This event was sent:

According to the spec:

• https://spec.matrix.org/v1.7/client-server-api/#mroommessage-msgtypes

Something like this should be sent:

{
  "content": {
    "body": "I DMed tpb about what’s going on but I suspect I’m just talking to a bot/service. 🤔",
    "format": "org.matrix.custom.html",
    "formatted_body": "I DMed <a href=\"https://matrix.to/#/@libera_tpb:catircservices.org\">tpb</a> about what’s going on but I suspect I’m just talking to a bot/service. 🤔",
    "msgtype": "m.text"
  },
  ...
}

allowing matrix-appservice-irc to translate it to:

<jevinskie[m]1> I DMed tpb about what’s going on but I suspect I’m just talking to a bot/service. 🤔

What happened instead?

{
  "content": {
    "body": "I DMed [tpb](<https://matrix.to/#/@libera_tpb:catircservices.org>) about what’s going on but I suspect I’m just talking to a bot/service. 🤔",
    "format": "org.matrix.custom.html",
    "formatted_body": "I DMed <a data-mention-type=\"user\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https://matrix.to/#/@libera_tpb:catircservices.org\">tpb</a> about what’s going on but I suspect I’m just talking to a bot/service. 🤔",
    "msgtype": "m.text"
  },
  "origin_server_ts": 1690466951796,
  "room_id": "!LhJjrGmNCUyJajtYYf:catircservices.org",
  "sender": "@jevinskie:matrix.org",
  "type": "m.room.message",
  "unsigned": {
    "age": 4266509
  },
  "event_id": "$30s5H_bel7LYbK_APhXlljW-hXq1bgSiQKjkzeLe-4Q",
  "user_id": "@jevinskie:matrix.org",
  "age": 4266509
}

https://matrix.to/#/!LhJjrGmNCUyJajtYYf:catircservices.org/$30s5H_bel7LYbK_APhXlljW-hXq1bgSiQKjkzeLe-4Q?via=matrix.org&via=catircservices.org

which causes the following to be sent to IRC through matrix-appservice-irc:

<jevinskie[m]1> I DMed [tpb](<https://matrix.to/#/@libera_tpb:catircservices.org>) about what’s going on but I suspect I’m just talking to a bot/service. 🤔

(which then triggers URL snippet fetching, which is very noisy)

Your phone model

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Operating system version

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Application version

nightly, 1.10.14 (20230621144257)

Homeserver

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Will you send logs?

No

[jevinskie]

Here are the message contents. I tried Element X and it doesn't even have the functionality to tap a name to make a mention pill. And indeed I'm on 1.10.14 (20230621144257) from TestFlight.

https://gist.github.com/jevinskie/19fd0fbd7903e1586b5e8b8c6f8cd3a5

[jevinskie]

OK so changing mode: .markdown to mode: .displayname here makes the Markdown that doesn't render in IRC clients go away and also fixes the "bot sees a link" issue. Unfortunately it doesn't display a pill in Element anymore.

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[whitequark]

Thank you for triaging as "Major".