Well, anytime I see that a project uses PHP I avoid it, and I'm far from the only one. You're free to live in denial about your dying language while the rest of us move on.
@gnu2 The @s are colored when they come from anyone else or on my own statuses. But I notice it looks right on gnusocial.jp, so I have no idea. Probably just something retarded with Pleroma.
@victor I was looking at this from the @gnusocialjp Pleroma Front End, and I suspect this is left over from a time when to ensure that the links to the users was clickable, the plain text entry of @name@instan.ce triggered HTML entry of "@<a href=https://instan.ce/name>name@instan.ce</a> !sns@gnusocial..jp