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Draft: Show user's status text in md mention autocomplete when they are busy

What does this MR do and why?

When a user is marked as busy, show a preview of their status in @ mention autocomplete results, so that users mentioning them can better reason about whether or not to include them.

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Check out this branch
  2. Set a status on your user. Do not set your user as busy.
  3. In a markdown field, @ mention yourself
  4. you should see that the autocomplete result as you type does not differ from what is seen on prod today
  5. Now edit your status so that you are busy
  6. @ mention yourself in markdown again
  7. You will see that your status shows on the autocomplete result for your user
Edited by Chad Lavimoniere

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