# Can't add people to a PM
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [July 10, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950 "2017-07-10T16:27:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/1 "2017-07-10T16:27:52Z")
Whenever I click “Add person”, this comes up
Then I type anything, it _always_ comes up with this (because it isn’t registering my inputs)
(Can’t add 2nd pic, but whatever I type it just shows @Rishi\_Bokhoree)
I can’t add anyone, which is really annoying
If you just type @, he’s the first person to come up
(And I’m not trying to add Rishi\_Bokhoree to my PM)
Thanks in advance
P.s New here, didn’t know if this is for developer problems or something. Sorry if ive put it in the wrong category
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/2 "2017-07-10T16:50:55Z")
Very strange, the image appears to be missing, can you try uploading it again?
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/3 "2017-07-10T18:32:55Z")
Done - it was because i’d copied over the post from my community and it didn’t recongnise the image
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/4 "2017-08-20T21:38:01Z")
Update - more people on the forum complaining about it. Seems to be an android only issue (works on Safari, yet not on chrome nor Samsung internet)
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### Author:  [@schyllberg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schyllberg)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/5 "2017-08-20T21:44:27Z")
Correction;
It seems to happen on iOS too, but i can’t repro it on my end (iOS 11..)
We’ve been getting a fair amount of reports of this lately.
[https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/cant-invite-people-to-message/138564](https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/cant-invite-people-to-message/138564)
[https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm-mobile/129276?u=insertusernamehere&source\_topic\_id=138564](https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm-mobile/129276?u=insertusernamehere&source_topic_id=138564)
[https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/cant-invite-others-to-pm/137932](https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/cant-invite-others-to-pm/137932)
[https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/can-not-invite-others-to-pms/133253](https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/can-not-invite-others-to-pms/133253)
and so it goes on..
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### Author:  [@zaidsal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zaidsal)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/6 "2017-08-21T15:16:24Z")
Reoported it while ago
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-bug-on-mobile-view/67095/3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-bug-on-mobile-view/67095/3)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/7 "2017-08-21T15:20:21Z")
I really really need a repro here, very hard to fix it without.
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### Author:  [@zaidsal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zaidsal)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/8 "2017-08-21T15:21:32Z")
Hey Sam, it is Already mentioned in my topic
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/9 "2017-08-21T15:22:22Z")
Last reply to your topic is:
> Works now! Thanks for the help @Aussie\_Cockatoo!
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### Author:  [@schyllberg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schyllberg)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/10 "2017-08-21T15:23:18Z")
This was reported by John prior to yours, Zaid.
@sam - i understand that. I’ll see what i can find out, seems to be located to certain device/browser combinations..
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### Author:  [@zaidsal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zaidsal)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/11 "2017-08-21T15:23:21Z")
I meant this one
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-bug-on-mobile-view/67095/3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-bug-on-mobile-view/67095/3)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/12 "2017-08-21T15:24:18Z")
Can you still reproduce this issue on your S3 now? on a PM on meta?
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### Author:  [@zaidsal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zaidsal)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/13 "2017-08-21T15:26:07Z")
Its S7 edge
Affirmative, it does happen here
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/14 "2017-08-21T15:26:54Z")
What is the EXACT browser version you are using? Does it happen on Chrome stable as well?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/15 "2017-08-21T15:41:00Z")
I can repro on chrome stable here on Meta, but only if I use the mobile emulator.
I cannot reproduce on my own instance using my own account, but can repro with a non-admin account. So looks like the issue might be for non-staff users only. Nothing in Ruby/JS logs.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/16 "2017-08-21T16:11:39Z")
OK, I have an easy repro here @j.jaffeux so adding this to your list.
1. Create a PM to yourself
2. View it with `?mobile_view=1`
There are 2 bugs here:
1. Why does this not look like a button?
1. What is going on here?
The reason I am assigning this to @j.jaffeux is cause this issue is made about 9000 times harder to debug due to `select2`.
With select2, we always **replace** the original DOM nodes with a wrapped version using select 2, which means finding the original CSS responsible for the width of the element is a nightmare ^ 2.
So my suggestion is just to replace `user-selector` with the new component and then it should be trivial to add the missing width there.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/17 "2017-08-21T17:46:39Z")
A quick fix by @j.jaffeux is now deployed both here and on inifinte flight, a more comprehensive fix will be created in a week or so.
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### Author:  [@schyllberg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schyllberg)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/18 "2017-08-21T18:05:05Z")
Thanks for quick assistance! One less thing to worry about 😀
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-add-people-to-a-pm/65950/19 "2017-09-03T06:07:19Z")