I love messing with users on my discourse instance, but when using the new group chats feature, I realized I couldn’t add over 100 users. After checking site settings, I realized this couldn’t go higher. I would enjoy it if this was raised to anywhere from 300 to 1000, so I can mess with my community some more
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The discussion revolves around raising the ‘chat max direct message users’ cap from 100. GiggaPoggers initiated the conversation, requesting to increase the limit to 300-1000 users, stating they want to be able to “mess with” their community. However, chapoi suggested using a channel instead, and Firepup650 pointed out that GiggaPoggers is primarily looking to have fun with their community. JammyDodger provided insight into the reasoning behind the 100-user limit, citing potential abuse and spam mitigation, and decided to close the feature request due to the perceived lack of legitimacy in GiggaPoggers’s reasons.
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Hi!
For that amount of users, I wonder why you don’t want to use a channel? Curious to hear about your reasoning.
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Gigga’s mainly doing this just to be silly, lol:
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I believe this is the reasoning behind the limit:
And looking at your reasons for wanting to increase it, it seems it’s also a good way to prevent admins from doing a similar thing. 
The 100 limit is fairly arbitrary, though I think there is some scope to maybe amend this in the future. However, I’ll close this Contribute > Feature request off to give the space to someone who can come up with, let’s say, ‘more legitimate’ reasons…
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