# Joining a group doesn’t take effect (enabling category access) unless the browser is hard-refreshed

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/joining-a-group-doesn-t-take-effect-enabling-category-access-unless-the-browser-is-hard-refreshed/242586
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** groups, sidebar
**Created:** [October 21, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/joining-a-group-doesn-t-take-effect-enabling-category-access-unless-the-browser-is-hard-refreshed/242586 "2022-10-21T12:10:15Z")
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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/joining-a-group-doesn-t-take-effect-enabling-category-access-unless-the-browser-is-hard-refreshed/242586/3 "2022-10-21T15:19:07Z")

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Having to hard-reload the forum is problematic for two reasons:

- UX - Users don’t know they’re required to hard reload. They join a group, expecting the change to category access to happen, and it doesn’t
- Non-technical users, especially on mobile, might not even know _how_ to reload the page

A while ago, @tgxworld [partially fixed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/joining-a-group-doesnt-take-effect-unless-the-browser-is-hard-refreshed/57357/15) the category refresh issues around joining groups. Perhaps similar could be done here?

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