I updated my Discourse self-hosted install on Friday, I was about 2 weeks behind. My current version is 3.5.0.beta2-dev ( 712302c020 ). I created a private chat channel based on one of our private categories and I said “yes” to automatically add the 7 users who had access to the category: <a class="lightbox" href="https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/b/1/2b1e5889af9c8d741788de9094d9df4af5e63e18.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/69rxUlaG1p0oNvLHAifufpEJbxS.png?dl=1" title="The image shows a dialog box for creating a new Slack channel, specifically named "Core collaborators team," with an option to automatically add users and chances to select interactivity features like thread enabling. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[The …

Found the problem, which was me.. :person_facepalming: Going through everything once more, of course I noticed that in “Chat allowed groups” not all the groups were added. On our site, we’re pretty strict on who can chat or not and I forgot I set up only specific “Chat allowed groups” …

Automatically adding people to a private chat channel is no longer working?

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j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux) March 26, 2025, 9:19pm 8

I don’t have an immediate answer, but we will be looking at this, thanks.

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Automatically adding people to a private chat channel is no longer working?

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