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On a brand new workspace the admin created by the setup wizard is not a member of #general — the room is created with default: true but has usersCount: 0 and no subscription. The same happens to OAuth, SAML and LDAP users with no username mapping, who pick a username on the Register Username screen. Both flows also skip the afterCreateUser callback.

An account can be created without a username, and Accounts.insertUserDoc skips the join in that case by design — the account is not usable yet. Joining happens instead when the user is assigned their first username, the very next request in the wizard and possibly much later on the Register Username screen, and that code lived in setUsernameWithValidation, behind the setUsername Meteor method both flows called. PR #36146, a deprecation chore, swapped that method for POST /v1/users.updateOwnBasicInfo in SetupWizardProvider.tsx and RegisterUsername.tsx, and that endpoint routes to saveUserProfilesaveUserIdentity_setUsername: the username is written, but setUsernameWithValidation is never reached. Nothing was deleted — the block is still there, which is why POST /v1/users.register keeps working; two callers just started using a different door.

The fix moves joinDefaultChannels and afterCreateUser one layer down, into _setUsername, which every username assignment converges on — users.register through setUsernameWithValidation, and both regressed flows through saveUserProfile, all of them via saveUserIdentity. setUsernameWithValidation also loses its now-unused joinDefaultChannelsSilenced parameter, and afterCreateUser now receives the user with the username populated instead of the pre-save snapshot.

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  1. Complete the setup wizard against an empty database — the admin must be a member of #general. Before the fix, rocketchat_subscription for rid: "GENERAL" is empty and the room has usersCount: 0.
  2. Log in through an auth provider with no username mapping and pick a username on the Register Username screen — the user must be a member of #general.

Regression checks: users.register still joins exactly once, users.create is unchanged, and changing an existing username creates no new subscription.

Further comments

  • Why _setUsername and not saveUserProfile (the candidate fix on the issue): _setUsername is already where the first-username side effects live, and all of them already fire on admin edits today, so the "never the previous behaviour" argument does not hold. saveUserProfile would also add a third copy of the rule and leave future callers of saveUserIdentity regressing the same way.
  • Known collateral: the importer generates a username for an existing account that has none, so those users now join the default channels during an import, against the opt-outs it passes at creation. Closing it means threading those flags through saveUserIdentity — happy to add here if preferred.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue where users were not automatically added to default channels after choosing their first username.
    • This now works consistently for setup-wizard administrators and users signing in through OAuth, SAML, or LDAP.
    • Existing username changes no longer trigger first-time setup actions.

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First-time username assignment now joins default channels and runs afterCreateUser after the transaction commits. Existing username changes do not run these actions. Unit tests and a patch changeset cover the behavior.

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First Username Setup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Move first-time setup after transaction
apps/meteor/server/lib/users/setUsername.ts
setUsernameWithValidation no longer accepts the silenced-channel parameter. _setUsername performs default-channel joining and the afterCreateUser callback after a successful transaction when the user has no previous username.
Validate asynchronous setup behavior
apps/meteor/tests/unit/server/lib/users/setUsername.spec.ts, .changeset/proud-pears-wait.md
Unit tests cover first-time username assignment and existing username changes. The patch changeset documents the fix.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9c05b

The change restores default-channel membership and account setup callbacks when a user receives a first username, but a channel-join failure can still interrupt the remaining setup and importer opt-outs may be ignored for existing accounts. This bounded correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Suggested reviewers: sampaiodiego

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🧹 Nitpick comments (3)
apps/meteor/server/lib/users/setUsername.ts (1)

150-151: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the new implementation comments.

The branch is clear from !previousUsername. Remove these comments.

As per coding guidelines, **/*.{ts,tsx,js} says: “Avoid code comments in the implementation.”

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In `@apps/meteor/server/lib/users/setUsername.ts` around lines 150 - 151, Remove
the newly added implementation comments above the !previousUsername branch,
while leaving the branch logic and surrounding code unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

apps/meteor/tests/unit/server/lib/users/setUsername.spec.ts (2)

195-196: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the validation-only contract explicitly.

Removing the previous positive assertion does not prove that setUsernameWithValidation avoids first-time setup. Assert that joinDefaultChannels and afterCreateUser are not called in this test.

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In `@apps/meteor/tests/unit/server/lib/users/setUsername.spec.ts` around lines 195
- 196, Update the test for setUsernameWithValidation to explicitly assert that
joinDefaultChannels and afterCreateUser are not called, preserving the existing
saveUserIdentity assertion.

264-267: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test the commit boundary instead of bypassing it.

The stub at line 47 executes onceTransactionCommitedSuccessfully immediately. This test can pass even if default-channel joining and afterCreateUser run before commit. Use a fake session that captures onceSuccesfulCommit, assert no setup occurs before commit, then trigger and await the callback.

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In `@apps/meteor/tests/unit/server/lib/users/setUsername.spec.ts` around lines 264
- 267, Update the _setUsername test to use a fake session that captures
onceSuccesfulCommit instead of executing the callback immediately. Assert that
default-channel joining and afterCreateUser have not run before the transaction
commits, then invoke the captured callback and await its completion to verify
setup occurs after commit.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/meteor/server/lib/users/setUsername.ts`:
- Around line 153-154: Update the first-time user setup around
joinDefaultChannels so a rejected channel join is handled independently and does
not prevent callbacks.run('afterCreateUser', user), invite-room joining, or
user.nameChanged from executing. Preserve onceTransactionCommitedSuccessfully’s
error logging while ensuring the remaining setup continues after the channel
failure.
- Line 31: Update the UserConverter existing-user username-update flow to call
joinDefaultChannels only when skipDefaultChannels is not enabled, and isolate
any joinDefaultChannels failure so invite-room joining and the user.nameChanged
broadcast still execute. Remove the implementation comments at the specified
locations.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/meteor/server/lib/users/setUsername.ts`:
- Around line 150-151: Remove the newly added implementation comments above the
!previousUsername branch, while leaving the branch logic and surrounding code
unchanged.

In `@apps/meteor/tests/unit/server/lib/users/setUsername.spec.ts`:
- Around line 195-196: Update the test for setUsernameWithValidation to
explicitly assert that joinDefaultChannels and afterCreateUser are not called,
preserving the existing saveUserIdentity assertion.
- Around line 264-267: Update the _setUsername test to use a fake session that
captures onceSuccesfulCommit instead of executing the callback immediately.
Assert that default-channel joining and afterCreateUser have not run before the
transaction commits, then invoke the captured callback and await its completion
to verify setup occurs after commit.
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apps/meteor/tests/unit/server/lib/users/setUsername.spec.ts (1)

269-272: LGTM!

Also applies to: 284-286

.changeset/proud-pears-wait.md (1)

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apps/meteor/server/lib/users/setUsername.ts (1)

149-155: 🩺 Stability & Availability

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Production callers either omit session, which runs the callback immediately, or provide an active extended transaction session.

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