possible regression in assignee user list

[Aaron Rodriguez]

Starting on 2025-04-22 I've been getting spammed with Jira notifications as users in my org accidentally assign tickets to me, then immediately reassign them to themselves.

What seems to be happening:

• user is on a Jira ticket page
• user clicks the assignee field
• a dropdown appears, with their name and an Assign to me label
• the app asynchronously loads the list of all users
• they try to click Assign to me
• the user list finishes loading and now my name is in the same place ("Aaron" is alphabetically first)
• they accidentally click my name

Was there a UI change recently that might have caused this? Can something be done about it? I'd rather not have to ask my org's Jira admin to create a dummy user named AAAAAA to prevent this.

[Aaron]

As a fellow Aaron, I feel your pain. 

Luckily I'm in a position where I am the only person that assigns myself issues to actually work, so if I see the notification that someone has assigned me to a ticket, I just ignore it. 

It does seem to have become worse lately, so something mat have changed.