# /admin/users/list/active returns users with active=false

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-list-active-returns-users-with-active-false/105649>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-list-active-returns-users-with-active-false/105649 "2019-01-03T21:31:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-list-active-returns-users-with-active-false/105649/2 "2019-01-04T00:41:37Z")

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> [@Dalmiro\_Granas](#):
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> Is this a bug? It does sound like one to me.

No, that’s not what active means in this context. You are conflating “inactivate” as in “inactivate this person’s email and thus their account” and “active” as in “visits the site often”.

In our admin UI we say “active” but we should really say “activated”, so I’ll change that now.

Activated does not equal active.

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