# Using @ breaks adding groups to message

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-breaks-adding-groups-to-message/99721>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [October 17, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-breaks-adding-groups-to-message/99721 "2018-10-17T12:27:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![nbianca](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nbianca/32/157984_2.png) [@nbianca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nbianca)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-breaks-adding-groups-to-message/99721/6 "2018-10-18T15:55:18Z")

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I tried to bisect this, but I had no luck… because this has been broken before v1.8! (I could not install older versions because I had problems with dependencies that were not worth the time) 💥

Anyway, I got it fixed. The problem is that the query that gets to the server includes `@` which seemed to work fine for usernames (`Search.ts_query` is pretty smart), but did not for groups.

Fixed by

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6506](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6506)

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