# Suggestion to automatically invite people to a private message when you @mention them
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-to-automatically-invite-people-to-a-private-message-when-you-mention-them/45363
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [June 7, 2016, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-to-automatically-invite-people-to-a-private-message-when-you-mention-them/45363 "2016-06-07T09:30:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jancborchardt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jancborchardt)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-to-automatically-invite-people-to-a-private-message-when-you-mention-them/45363/1 "2016-06-07T09:30:00Z")
We use Discourse at [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com) a bunch – so first thanks a lot for that great open source software. 🙂
A colleague just said that I should look at a specific thread that they @mentioned me in. I let him know I didn’t get a notification and only after some time we found out the reason was that it was a private message.
Hence it would be cool when a person who @mentions someone in a private message who is not part of that conversation gets prompted if they want to invite that person. Of course not automatically invite them, but a nudge would be a good UX improvement.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-to-automatically-invite-people-to-a-private-message-when-you-mention-them/45363/2 "2016-06-07T11:10:07Z")
Red pop-over on the composer?
> "You’ve mentioned @user, but they aren’t currently a part of this conversation. Would you like to invite them instead?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-to-automatically-invite-people-to-a-private-message-when-you-mention-them/45363/3 "2016-06-07T17:34:44Z")
Also refer to this feature request:
> [@Visual indicator when a user can't see a mention](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visual-indicator-when-a-user-cant-see-a-mention/44515):
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> Currently when a user cannot “see” or receive a notification of a mention of their username there could be a better visual indicator. I would like to see some like how Facebook handles this… Normally a mention on Facebook looks like this (a blue coloured link): [image] And a mention where the user can’t see the post is like this (grey with a grey “no entry” icon): [image] When you hover over the username a “user card” appears with the following addition: [image] So a more complete scree…
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-to-automatically-invite-people-to-a-private-message-when-you-mention-them/45363/4 "2016-06-08T10:25:27Z")
An overall improved visual indicator as linked to above nicely covers this use case as well as others, so let’s take any further discussion over there.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-to-automatically-invite-people-to-a-private-message-when-you-mention-them/45363/5 "2016-06-08T10:25:29Z")