diff --git a/src/components/UserContextMenu.jsx b/src/components/UserContextMenu.jsx
index 4e581a6..cf38f55 100644
--- a/src/components/UserContextMenu.jsx
+++ b/src/components/UserContextMenu.jsx
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ const UserContextMenu = ({
         tabIndex={0}
         onClick={() => {
           dm(uid);
+          // TODO if DM Channel with user already exist, just switch
           close();
         }}
         style={{ borderBottom: 'thin solid' }}
diff --git a/src/core/passport.js b/src/core/passport.js
index 55444f7..889c8a8 100644
--- a/src/core/passport.js
+++ b/src/core/passport.js
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ const include = [{
       'id',
       'name',
     ],
+  }, {
+    model: RegUser,
+    as: 'blocked',
+    through: UserBlock,
+    foreignKey: 'uid',
   }],
 }, {
   model: RegUser,
diff --git a/src/data/models/User.js b/src/data/models/User.js
index 6120295..07d96dc 100644
--- a/src/data/models/User.js
+++ b/src/data/models/User.js
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class User {
     this.ip = ip;
     this.channels = [];
     this.channelIds = [];
+    this.blocked = [];
     this.ipSub = getIPv6Subnet(ip);
     this.wait = null;
     // following gets populated by passport
@@ -77,6 +78,15 @@ class User {
         ]);
       }
     }
+    if (reguser.blocked) {
+      for (let i = 0; i < reguser.blocked.length; i += 1) {
+        const {
+          id,
+          name,
+        } = reguser.blocked[i];
+        this.blocked.push([id, name]);
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   getName() {
@@ -194,6 +204,7 @@ class User {
       mailreg: !!(regUser.password),
       userlvl: this.isAdmin() ? 1 : 0,
       channels: this.channels,
+      blocked: this.blocked,
     };
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/routes/api/startdm.js b/src/routes/api/startdm.js
index d46f80c..5f69bec 100644
--- a/src/routes/api/startdm.js
+++ b/src/routes/api/startdm.js
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ async function startDm(req: Request, res: Response) {
     errors.push('You are not logged in');
   }
   if (user && userId && user.id === userId) {
-    errors.push('You can not start DM to yourself.');
+    errors.push('You can not  DM yourself.');
   }
   if (errors.length) {
     res.status(400);
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ async function startDm(req: Request, res: Response) {
   ];
   await Promise.all(promises);
 
+  // TODO: inform websocket to add channelId to user
   res.json({
     channel: [
       ChannelId,