# Default admin doesn’t receive ‘staff’ or ‘admin’ group memberships at first

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-admin-doesn-t-receive-staff-or-admin-group-memberships-at-first/240911>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-admin-doesn-t-receive-staff-or-admin-group-memberships-at-first/240911 "2022-10-04T17:22:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-admin-doesn-t-receive-staff-or-admin-group-memberships-at-first/240911/19 "2022-10-06T05:18:02Z")

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I just merged a core fix for this, we likely didn’t notice this previously since less settings relied on these auto groups, but now we are generally heading in the direction of using `group_list` site settings so this should help:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18494](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18494)

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