# 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:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-admin-doesn-t-receive-staff-or-admin-group-memberships-at-first/240911/8 "2022-10-04T18:41:17Z")

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I have spun up a fresh self-hosted site on DO with the chat plugin and I can confirm that this also happened to me:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/7/b/e7b4d9f1573bc6dd0361c994ab8ee6d18cab8b09.png)

- Installed using the [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) guide (editing in the Chat plugin to `app.yml`)
- Registered admin
- Completed setup wizard (first 3 steps)
- Enabled Chat from plugin page
- Added `staff` `admins` `trust_level_3` `trust_level_4`
- Refreshed page  
  
- No Chat bubble on screen
- `/chat/browse` redirects to Latest

Other notes:

- Only having `staff` in the allowed chat groups also does not make Chat appear for this admin user  
  
- Making them moderator _does_ enable chat for them
- After granting moderator status and then removing it Chat is still enabled for this admin user

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