# Bulk adding members to a group is broken
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2월 21, 2018, 10:21오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183 "2018-02-21T22:21:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [2월 21, 2018, 10:21오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183/1 "2018-02-21T22:21:04Z")
I’ve come across a bug with bulk adding members to a custom group. I can repro it on try.
Repro steps:
1. Create a new custom group
2. Bulk add (58)users to group using username
3. The upload appears to work: [https://try.discourse.org/groups/Experienced](https://try.discourse.org/groups/Experienced)
But group appears to have (and acts as if it has) no members
Manually joining the group causes this to happen:
But leaving then causes this:
I thought it was related to [this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-add-to-group-does-not-increment-group-membership-counts/52631/2) but it’s not just the count – the functionality (i.e. tagging the group) doesn’t work.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 21, 2018, 11:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183/2 "2018-02-21T23:57:11Z")
Hmm can you take a look @techAPJ and see if you can repro too?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2월 22, 2018, 6:09오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183/4 "2018-02-22T06:09:31Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> But leaving then causes this:
This is indeed because we do not update group user count when bulk adding users. The count is updated every 12 hours in `EnsureDbConsistency` job.
> [@HAWK](#):
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> the functionality (i.e. tagging the group) doesn’t work.
Does that mean mentioning the group in topics/posts is broken? It is working for me on try for that group.
> **[Welcome to our demo!](https://try.discourse.org/t/welcome-to-our-demo/57/17?u=techapj)**
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [2월 22, 2018, 10:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183/5 "2018-02-22T22:13:28Z")
> [@techAPJ](#):
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> Does that mean mentioning the group in topics/posts is broken? It is working for me on try for that group.
Is it actually working though? I get this (and it’s the same on my other site even after 24 hours and the count has updated):
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2월 23, 2018, 2:15오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183/6 "2018-02-23T02:15:08Z")
Interesting, this might be a regression in mentioning groups. I’ll look into it today.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2월 23, 2018, 9:02오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183/7 "2018-02-23T09:02:55Z")
The mention notifications were getting sent, but looking at that warning I agree that this looks very confusing to end user.
I added the code to update group user count when bulk adding users to a group.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/709f201bd4a7d6e1e02a1d84cf035d0628b31c50](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/709f201bd4a7d6e1e02a1d84cf035d0628b31c50)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2월 23, 2018, 9:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-adding-members-to-a-group-is-broken/81183/8 "2018-02-23T09:03:13Z")