Don’t see if mentioned in search, but I noticed there is no longer a menu option to reply via private message. Unsure of what changed, but would like to re-enable this functionality if possible. [image]

It was a removed a while ago, there’s some discussion in this topic .

I too would like this to be returned. I sometimes used it to PM users about their posts.

I’ve just re-read the topic linked to above. The topic was closed so clearly this isn’t going to change. A partial solution is here: Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post - #34 by sam [image] Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post This particular use case…

hello everyone, i will dearly miss the possibility to directly reply in am PM with a quote. i am using discourse heavily in a number of university online courses with up to 150 persons - here the students do their written assignments and i use the option for a PM in order to give individual feedba…

[image] anderer: i use the option for a PM in order to give individual feedback to the students All these use cases are covered by the Message button in users cards. If you wanted to send a PM to a user, with a quote to something they said in a public topic: In the post that contains the te…

ohh, that’s great. thanks a lot for the help <3

There is no longer the ability to directly pm someone when replying to a topic. Can I re-enable?

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ohh, that’s great. thanks a lot for the help

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There is no longer the ability to directly pm someone when replying to a topic. Can I re-enable?

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