“c” shortcut causes draft conflict when creating another topic from a topic page

zogstrip · October 22, 2026, 9:42am

thanks for the report @profcaju

will be fixed by

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: Avoid draft conflicts when creating a topic with the `c` shortcut (#44944)

main ← fix/c-shortcut-draft-conflict

merged 01:06PM - 22 Oct 26 UTC

ZogStriP

+50 -4

Previously, pressing `c` on a page without a "New Topic" button, such as a topic… page, opened the composer on the shared `new_topic` draft key without a draft sequence. Since #31828, the composer no longer loads an existing draft or its sequence when it opens, so the server read its saves as sequence 0, and any older `new_topic` draft either made them all fail with "Draft is being edited in another window" or was silently overwritten. This change opens the composer with `openNewTopic()`, as the "New Topic" button does, so the shortcut always starts a fresh draft under its own key. Drafts already saved under the shared key stay in the user's drafts and can still be resumed, so no migration is needed. Reported in https://meta.discourse.org/t/414536

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“c” shortcut causes draft conflict when creating another topic from a topic page

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