# Users should be automatically removed from channels they can no longer access
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [July 15, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446 "2022-07-15T16:36:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/1 "2022-07-15T16:36:43Z")
I’ve found a fairly major bug (I think) with the #Staff chat. When a user is removed from the staff they are not removed from the Staff chat. Unless there is some way to remove them that I am missing? It seems like this should be automatic.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/3 "2022-07-15T16:42:22Z")
Will deal with this later today 👍 thanks
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/5 "2022-07-15T19:14:40Z")
We made a TODO of this internally, this won’t be fixed before next week for sure. It will be one of my priorities for next week, sorry about this.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/6 "2022-07-20T17:49:33Z")
One thing I want to clarify is that even though these users are still listed as members of the channel, users who are removed from staff or any other group cannot see channels to which they’ve lost access, and they cannot see or send messages within those channels.
It’s still misleading though, and we have this at the top of our list.
We’re going to get to it soon, and we plan to take the time it requires to sort through the various cases that may exist where users’ access and membership to channels may need to be removed.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/7 "2025-10-30T01:43:45Z")
This fell through the cracks, but I am honestly not sure what a reasonable fix is.
We could “ensure consistency” and run a job once in a while that removes people without access.
We could “hide the info” and not render the users without access that somehow are in a channel.
Before we do anything here we should decide on what our desired behavior is.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/8 "2025-10-30T01:58:37Z")
Wait hmm… I never circled back here, but these are some related changes that were merged related to this:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20344](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20344)
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/29193](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/29193)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/9 "2025-10-30T02:01:03Z")
cool, going to close this then, we can reopen new bugs if we discover new edge cases post these changes.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-should-be-automatically-removed-from-channels-they-can-no-longer-access/233446/10 "2025-10-30T02:01:05Z")