# Group drop downs are not refreshed correctly with new groups
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-drop-downs-are-not-refreshed-correctly-with-new-groups/398285
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** fixed
**Created:** [March 12, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-drop-downs-are-not-refreshed-correctly-with-new-groups/398285 "2026-03-12T14:28:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-drop-downs-are-not-refreshed-correctly-with-new-groups/398285/1 "2026-03-12T14:28:44Z")
## How to reproduce
1. Create a group
2. Create a category
- in the security tab, choose the new group (it should appear)
- in the settings tab, choose the new group as moderator (it should not appear)
1. Reload the page
- the new group should appear in both cases
I guess this is related to that one: [Newly-created groups don't show up in category permissions without refresh](https://meta.discourse.org/t/newly-created-groups-dont-show-up-in-category-permissions-without-refresh/77715)
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-drop-downs-are-not-refreshed-correctly-with-new-groups/398285/2 "2026-03-25T14:02:17Z")
This reminds me of this topic where a user struggled to invite users to a group because that wasn’t shown if you did not refresh the site. Maybe there is a more general problem in how Discourse doesn’t know about new groups.
> [@Can't include an auto-join group in an invite](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-include-an-auto-join-group-in-an-invite/386518/5):
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> I’ll pull someone into this topic to take a peek first. If it’s a quick fix, we’ll handle it here. If it needs discussion or tracking longer term, we can spin out a new topic.
I was not able to find a topic that was created based on this, but I think I can still reproduce 🤷♀️
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-drop-downs-are-not-refreshed-correctly-with-new-groups/398285/3 "2026-04-02T17:28:55Z")
This should be solved by this change - [FIX: new group without page refresh (#39075) · discourse/discourse@a6024a8 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a6024a81a5b67e9bef0bf5966486559947bc976d)
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-drop-downs-are-not-refreshed-correctly-with-new-groups/398285/4 "2026-04-05T17:29:23Z")
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