Can't message groups that you cannot mention

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Continuing the discussion from Split into two settings: "Who can message and @mention this group?":

It seems that in order to be able to message a group you must also have to be able to @mention it. If you cannot @mention a group it won’t be recommended in the auto-complete list of users; you can, however, type the group’s whole name and be able to message the group.

Now that @mention and message are separate settings, it seems like a bug that completion on the message interface works only if you can also @mention the group.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Possibly, what do you think @tgxworld?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

To confirm on meta @team can be messaged and not mentioned per:

My wonderful sock account can not message meta, cause I can not pick @team when creating a message. Something is coupled incorrectly.

[tgxworld (Alan Tan)]

Fixed in

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/91c5f928c22289ffaccf349543ec1ff5694274c4
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8140e546754f787356f7d946de334959c89a4732

Thanks for reporting @pfaffman

cc @nbianca