Hi, I’m looking to bulk approve users, but am running into issues even approving one user through the UI. The button looks “greyed out” and when I press approve I get an internal server error. I’m on version 2.5.0.beta3, commit hash 0e4db91870 Inspecting the logs I get Reviewable::InvalidAction …

Continued doing research and I found this thread. However I don’t have anything in my review queue, and the user seems to be activated already [image] New user approval broken in 2.3 beta 7? Bug Dear all, I’m trying to approve a new user in Discourse 2.3…

Another update, if I deactivate the user, then click activate, I can then approve the user. Why is this? [image]

Last update. In short I had to deactivate each user, activate each user, then approve. I imported from vbulletin 3 so not sure if I put my discourse instance in a bad state. I wrote a script that hits the api in a loop over all users to do so. It’s running right now but will post here when its done…

Hi, Do you have some news about it ?

Fixed in https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a78c64db351431bae1e74d03c097c25b23fa4af8

Can't seem to approve users?

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canyon289 (Ravin Kumar) May 3, 2020, 2:08pm 2

Continued doing research and I found this thread. However I don’t have anything in my review queue, and the user seems to be activated already

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Can't seem to approve users?

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