I know it’s possible to add people to a Message topic, but how does one remove a user?

I think you’d need to track person removed / added events as posts in the stream sort of like topic closed / open. This was also requested on community.imgur…

nope, not possible, we may add it at some point. but keep in mind. you can not reach with an invisible hand into a user’s gmail and retrieve all the messages you already sent them.

I thought admins could do this? Maybe only for people who never posted in the private / personal message?

If they haven’t posted in the topic it is 100% legit to remove them, though it should be a privileged action.

It a bit tricky cause they may have already got an invite to the message and thus seen it.

I don’t think anyone would expect a time machine here. But it would be nice to remove them from the thread from there on out.

Hi there! Any good news about this topic?

Users cannot remove other users, this has not been implemented at this time. Admins can remove a user from a PM.

Hey @jomaxro, thanks for replying. Can i remove an user from a group trough Discourse API?

Sure! Everything you can do through the UI can be done through the API, the UI is using the API :slight_smile: Just remove a user from a group while watching the networks requests in your Browser’s Dev tools to see how this API call works. The following How-To has details: [image] Reverse engineer the Discourse API Integrations Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at docs.discourse.org. You can also use the discourse_api Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select … If you have any trouble following this, just let us know :slight_smile:

How to remove someone from a Message?

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sam (Sam Saffron) June 3, 2015, 12:23am 4

I think we planned to but never got around to adding it. Totally legit if you add someone by mistake and want to remove the straight away.

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How to remove someone from a Message?

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