# Group long names - help give full citizenship to groups for mentions, messaging, group pages

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016 年 9 月 9 日午後 7:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-long-names-help-give-full-citizenship-to-groups-for-mentions-messaging-group-pages/49949 "2016-09-09T19:45:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Post date:** [2017 年 10 月 9 日午後 12:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-long-names-help-give-full-citizenship-to-groups-for-mentions-messaging-group-pages/49949/9 "2017-10-09T12:48:28Z")

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Full usernames are displayed, but are not searched for when entering a name. This is true both when adding recipients for a message and when @mentioning groups in a topic.

I’m pretty sure this has been reported before, but I can’t seem to find where. I don’t see it in the list for 1.9. Can you add it to the next release? It seems like a small thing, but it drives me absolutely bonkers.

(We have a @digped-cmte, short for “Digital Pedagogy Committee”. I keep typing “pedagogy” and waiting before I remember that the full name of groups is not indexed.)

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