It's confusing that Replies to your own messages (and highlights in general?) are entirely coloured red.

[ara4n]

It's probably fine that replies to your own messages get turned into highlights. But it's not ideal that it makes the whole message red. And in fact, highlights in general probably shouldn't be entirely red - only the bit which actually highlighted you.

[turt2live]

Related:

• Receiving a ping that is in reply to a notice highlights the notice too element-web#7334
• <mx-reply/> blocks which trigger highlights should be highlighted element-web#6747
• Notifications triggered by keywords don't decorate messages - Highlight keywords in a pill element-web#8821
• An issue for only highlighting your name, not the whole message. Can't find it though.

[cheryllium]

From discussion on matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#2896

it sounds like we need to find a different approach that still highlights even without pills.

I'm on the web client and I see mentions are highlighted with a light yellow background color. Wouldn't that be sufficient, or am I misunderstanding the discussion?

A bit of a tangent, but I'd also like to suggest changing the color from red to anything else. Red in UI is associated with error/danger states, so as an end user I wasn't sure if it indicated some problem the first time I saw it.