Not sure what you mean, this has always been the case. (Though, the LCD thread linking was implemented a year ago, so it's not "always".)
"Summoning" (@) a mod is generally a bad practice because mods can easily miss it. Or maybe the particular mod is offline/afk. It's generally a better idea to use the report function because then, all mods will see it if they're online.
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