# Chat button not visible when personal messages are disabled

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-button-not-visible-when-personal-messages-are-disabled/396442
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [February 18, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-button-not-visible-when-personal-messages-are-disabled/396442 "2026-02-18T19:05:43Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-button-not-visible-when-personal-messages-are-disabled/396442/3 "2026-02-19T11:01:57Z")

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Nice find 👍

Looks like we missed one code path when adding these group-based site settings.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37920](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37920)

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