# Adding Friends in Discourse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [August 3, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-friends-in-discourse/159727 "2020-08-03T23:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![JimPas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimpas/32/148179_2.png) [@JimPas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JimPas)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-friends-in-discourse/159727/4 "2020-08-04T04:00:08Z")
I see what you trying to do and want. It does sound like an excellent idea. But Discourse would have to maintain additional “user lists” as well. Curious… I’ve never tried searching for a user by name from the UI. I’ll give that a try right now in a PM to a mod and see what happens. Be right back. Edit: No, that doesn’t work at all since usernames have to be preceded with the “@” sign. Typing in a first name doesn’t do anything. If there are a lot of users, then using groups to manage that wouldn’t be such a good idea as you’d have a ton of groups which are always being added to subtracted from. What you’re really looking for is a sort of address book, a list of contacts for each user. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-friends-in-discourse/159727)._