# New members can't request to join a group

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-members-cant-request-to-join-a-group/63626
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [30.Май.2017 17:11:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-members-cant-request-to-join-a-group/63626 "2017-05-30T17:11:22Z")
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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [07.Июнь.2017 08:17:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-members-cant-request-to-join-a-group/63626/16 "2017-06-07T08:17:03Z")

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I still feel like creating a group owners membership management page will be much better for us in the long run instead of the “request membership via a PM” approach. We can just send a notifications to all group owners notifying them of a pending requests queue and use a button to grant the user membership.

We used a PM in the 1.7 release because it was the easiest thing without having to spend too much time on it. Having special triggers in a text can quickly become a nightmare to handle based on my experience building discobot.

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