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://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/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” …

Edit: Solved! My bad, forgot to update the permissions Automatically adding people to a private chat channel is no longer working? - #12 by cultiv Unfortunately an update to 3.5.0.beta2-dev ( 558c566ca8 ) didn’t help. I can see that when I search a user that I should be able to add, that there’s…

Could it be something to do with this PR that was added before I did the upgrade? https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31948 Not sure how I could maybe downgrade to the commit before this one, then I can test if that was the cause of the problem :thinking: And just to note, I have the same…

I managed to downgrade to 3.5.0.beta1 and refreshed all my browser caches etc. But I am still facing this problem. It’s extremely weird, I know I was on a recent version, less than 2 weeks old. It worked there, I set up 2 channels with auto-adding people, when I said “yes” to add people from an exi…

Have any of the other users been active on your Discourse since you created the channel? Or logged out and logged back in again? I just tried to recreate this and yeah, I was only seeing one member in the channel right after creation. Every time I logged in as each of the other users that had acces…

Thanks for having a look! I am afraid that most people have been online quite recently and even when I impersonate a few of them, they still don’t get added to the category chat channel. It does make sense though, that I can not add the people if they’re already in the chat channel. But unfortunate…

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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