# Is there a broadcast function?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 24, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060 "2014-03-24T16:29:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@tedpearlman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tedpearlman)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/1 "2014-03-24T16:29:57Z")
I’d love to use an @ mention of something like [@everyone](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/everyone) to broadcast to my entire discourse community. Does this exist or is there another way to do it?
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/2 "2014-03-24T17:05:55Z")
If you go to [Checking your browser...](https://forum.yoursite.org/admin/groups), you can set the `trust_level_n` groups to be able to be used as aliases by Admins and moderators, then use those in your posts to expand to everybody.
The [@everyone](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/everyone) group is ‘special’ and doesn’t have an actual member list, so you can’t do this to it.
You should also consider the possibility of putting a banner in [Checking your browser...](https://forum.yoursite.org/admin/site_contents/top) - this will only be visible to the people who actually come back to your forum.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/3 "2014-03-24T22:28:14Z")
For what purpose? What message are you sending that needs to be broadcast in this way.
Why isn’t posting a topic and pinning it sufficient?
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### Author:  [@tedpearlman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tedpearlman)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/4 "2014-03-24T23:49:06Z")
It IS sufficient! Didn’t know I could do that! 😃
Thanks, Jeff!
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/5 "2014-03-25T02:27:53Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Why isn’t posting a topic and pinning it sufficient?
One reason: sometimes we want the information to go TO our users, vs waiting for them to come get it.
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### Author:  [@tedpearlman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tedpearlman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/6 "2014-03-25T02:45:28Z")
To use a lighthearted example: I’m going to be at ice cream store X in 20 minutes. Anybody who joins me: I’m treating.
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### Author:  [@tedpearlman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tedpearlman)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/7 "2014-03-28T04:54:57Z")
@codinghorror Now I’m starting to realize I need this capability. Every member in my Discourse community is posting across all the categories. Having to write a copy of the same post for every category (and pin it at the top) doesn’t make any sense.
But maybe I’m missing something? Still loving Discourse nonetheless!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/8 "2014-03-28T05:05:53Z")
You have a global\_notice site setting you can use … if you must.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2014, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/9 "2014-03-28T08:08:55Z")
Just **pin a topic with no category** , this pins a topic site wide. This is something that will be made clear in newer UI revisions @sam is working on next week.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/10 "2017-02-27T22:22:45Z")
Ancient topic, but worth mentioning in case someone finds it, these days you can make groups mentionable and @mention groups.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-broadcast-function/14060/11 "2017-02-27T22:22:53Z")