# Adding new users vs inviting them

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-new-users-vs-inviting-them/39422
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 11, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-new-users-vs-inviting-them/39422 "2016-02-11T20:08:47Z")
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### Author: ![bbendick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bbendick/32/104987_2.png) [@bbendick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bbendick)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-new-users-vs-inviting-them/39422/3 "2016-02-11T20:43:34Z")

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I don’t really want to synchronize users; we have 50,000+ of them.

Simply put the use case is:

- Steve wants a private category that includes 5 people

Right now the workflow is:

- Steve creates a group with 1 - 5 members, depending on who has already logged into discourse
- Steve creates a category with access to that group
- Steve emails the people, says “Please log in”
- Steve checks discourse every day, needs to add people to the group as they show up

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