@mentions do not render in README.md

[codeaholics]

@mentions (https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown#name-and-team-mentions-autocomplete) do not render in README.md

[gjtorikian]

And they probably never will.

@mentions are intended to bring attention to someone to a piece of code or an issue. They're not just hot-links out to a username.

[Haroenv]

To me another use would be easily writing out who helped in the writing of a certain piece of code, something which is done in README's too.

[ChappIO]

Hm would like to see this feature. When writing documentation and talking about decisions made it would be really convenient if the links would be parsed automatically.

[idibidiart]

A huge oversight IMO... it shouldn't take much to support. Why was it excluded from markdown?

[Xaekai]

I ran into this issue just now. Thanks for making me wonder why the hell the Special Thanks section of my README.md wasn't working. I imagined it would be a common use case. Omitting it is an objectively controversial decision.

Also, whatever you're doing to make it not render mentions is destroying line breaks.
One line rendered.
Is actually three lines

[dimitarg]

Does it make sense to render mentions in CREDITS.md? That's what brought me here.
Should I file another issue?

[dimitarg]

#1075 opened