# @group and notifications
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [6월 17, 2015, 12:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105 "2015-06-17T00:23:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [6월 17, 2015, 12:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/1 "2015-06-17T00:23:15Z")
I think it would be really handy to @group-name in a topic and they all receive a notification. A bit like Gitter’s @/all which alerts everyone who is a member of that chat/room.
Anyone else think it’s a good idea, or can think of any drawbacks?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [6월 17, 2015, 12:28오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/2 "2015-06-17T00:28:11Z")
You already have Group Mentions in the content of a post:
> [@Ability to mention a Group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-mention-a-group/28744/6):
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> All of that already exists…
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [6월 17, 2015, 2:12오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/3 "2015-06-17T02:12:29Z")
> [@DeanMarkTaylor](#):
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> You already have Group Mentions in the content of a post:
And Messages too.
@AstonJ Got a usage example that you’re having problems with?
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [6월 17, 2015, 7:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/4 "2015-06-17T07:05:19Z")
@group mentions expand into a list of @user mentions. This quickly puts you over the max. mentions limit (default 10). I’ve set the limit to 1,000 on my install, but it looks very ungainly when I @ a group with 40 members.
EDIT: The specific examples for my own site are:
@Trustees - that’s the Group who are responsible for the actual organisation. It’s a smaller group than Mods or Admins, and may not necessarily overlap with those groups in the future. It’s useful to be able to draw their attention to serious matters.
@Members - those are the paid-up members of the organisation. They’re the majority of our accounts right now, but when we integrate with wordpress, and grow as an org generally, there will be more non-Members. There could be 100s of Members eventually.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [6월 17, 2015, 7:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/5 "2015-06-17T07:08:02Z")
Yeah, I am not a huge fan of the current implementation .. I kind of wish it did not expand and instead we used something like `@@admins` or something.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [6월 17, 2015, 7:15오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/6 "2015-06-17T07:15:54Z")
Ah, thanks. I can see where that would be a problem.
Currently we have only used such as @advisors [@staff](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/staff) etc which are smaller sized groups and so have not had a problem
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [6월 17, 2015, 10:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/7 "2015-06-17T10:19:58Z")
Ah right thanks guys. I did wonder what that setting was (assumed it was the ability to use the group name as a title) was expecting a setting that said something like ‘Who can @mention this group’.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [12월 2, 2015, 8:34오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/8 "2015-12-02T08:34:22Z")
This is now implemented and explained here:
> [@Allow groups to be mentioned and sent messages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-mentions-and-messages/36228):
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> bookmark This guide describes how to enable group mentions and messages in Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator By default, users cannot mention groups or send messages directly to them. Administrators can modify these settings to facilitate better group interactions. Configuring group mentions and messaging To enable group mentions and messages: Navigate to the group’s page. Select the Manage tab. In the left-hand sidebar, go to the Interaction section. …
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [12월 2, 2015, 8:34오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-and-notifications/30105/9 "2015-12-02T08:34:29Z")