Link for new DM / personal chat message with pre-filled information

[lindsey (Lindsey Fogle)]

@Earnie_Baird

The “WHY” is the same as it is for spinning new chats for a group of users. We have people doing things off to the side (including outside of discourse + leveraging SSO) and want to spin up chats for them dynamically. It works perfectly the first time you do it.

But the 2nd time you do it, it creates a new DM conversation instead of bringing up the existing one which:

• Makes the feature less useful because you can’t see the history
• Clogs up your DMs with duplicate rows

Is there ever a time when you’d want to open a new group chat instead of opening an existing group chat?