# 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:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-breaks-adding-groups-to-message/99721/9 "2018-10-19T09:41:01Z")

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I see, we should at the very least do the same stripping on the server for those who call the API directly.

And maybe give some (_`ts_query`_) ❤ to [`Group.search_groups`](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/5f86564da1bc7c921bf1ed791b3ebc00b5917525/app/models/group.rb#L387-L391) as well 😉

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