# How to get notifications on group membership requests?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8월 22, 2019, 9:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509 "2019-08-22T09:55:43Z")
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### Author:  [@xav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xav)
#### Post date: [8월 22, 2019, 9:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/1 "2019-08-22T09:55:43Z")
Hi,
We have a private category restricted to a group. When a non member tries to read a post in that category, they get offered the option to request membership (as expected)
the group ownes can see the requests to join at /g/[name\_of\_group]/requests, but they do not receive a notification (either on the site or as email)
This makes it tricky to properly manage the requests, as they get stalled there until one of the owner goes there and grants access.
Is there a way to get notifications in a setting I missed?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [8월 26, 2019, 7:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/2 "2019-08-26T07:46:44Z")
> [@xav](#):
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> the group ownes can see the requests to join at /g/[name\_of\_group]/requests, but they do not receive a notification (either on the site or as email)
This sounds like a bug to me… I noticed I was not getting notifications here on plugin author reqs anymore. @vinothkannans can you investigate what is up here?
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### Author:  [@xav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xav)
#### Post date: [8월 26, 2019, 8:12오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/4 "2019-08-26T08:12:32Z")
Thanks Sam,
I’m on [v2.4.0.beta2 +235](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/compare/d01c938e1a8b5f96e16043aa8ec2aeeaee1be910...tests-passed)
@vinothkannans, I’m not yet familiar with your dev workflow, but happy to create an issue with more info if needed
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [8월 26, 2019, 11:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/5 "2019-08-26T11:36:29Z")
I’m unable to reproduce the issue here (also in try.discourse and in my local).
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Note, as per the above code the notification PM will be created only for the 5 group owners who recently online. I think your group has more than 5 owners.
> [@sam](#):
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> I was not getting notifications here on plugin author reqs anymore.
We have 6 owners.
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### Author:  [@xav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xav)
#### Post date: [8월 26, 2019, 12:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/6 "2019-08-26T12:07:40Z")
Looking a bit more at my configuration and trying to find something relevant:
I _think_ one of the admin changed the visibility from “Everyone” to “Logged on users”
and now the "Allow users to send membership is checked, but **disabled**
When I’m looking at another group (visible only to logged in users)
The “allow users to send membership requests” is disabled and unchecked
Could it be the issue? is this expected that you can’t send membership requests to a group that is visible only to logged in users?
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [8월 26, 2019, 9:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/7 "2019-08-26T21:52:38Z")
Yes, the visibility level setting of group is affecting the “membership requests” feature. The “logged on users” option for group visibility setting is added [recently](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b690fc3d98b7ee6171b219923021d969dac16b0a). After that, the membership requests feature should be compatible with “logged on users” option too (not just “public”). I will fix that 🛠
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [9월 3, 2019, 10:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/8 "2019-09-03T22:03:12Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/82c5a1d20fa9215b5a8c1bed83db3444f9c418f6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/82c5a1d20fa9215b5a8c1bed83db3444f9c418f6)
@xav this should resolve the problem.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [11월 4, 2020, 12:49오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-notifications-on-group-membership-requests/126509/9 "2020-11-04T00:49:35Z")