# Personal Message Enabled Groups seems to fail?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-enabled-groups-seems-to-fail/336117>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 14, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-enabled-groups-seems-to-fail/336117 "2024-11-14T10:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-enabled-groups-seems-to-fail/336117/1 "2024-11-14T10:49:33Z")

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When I try to add a group ~~with a dot in the name~~ to `personal message enabled groups`, it ~~fails~~ _seems_ to fail.

![screenshot of failure](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/4X/f/e/8/fe838f09b1a3a0cd473ffe7445221cc812ffdf32_2_690x70.png)

I started by _assuming_ the dot was the culprit, although it should not:

- [Group name with dot breaks member overview](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-with-dot-breaks-member-overview/51241)
- [Group name can't have DOT inside](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-name-cant-have-dot-inside/48658)
- Dots are explicitly valid in [username validator](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/35c4e1178c9245db9d25adf1d9a99e388862aa18/app/models/username_validator.rb#L166) and user names and group names follow the same rules.

But it looks like the change occurred anyway:

![successful log](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/4/9/44957a8cdaf1f860ef9cf5142162b9f065bc5b21.png)

🤔