# Ability to move chat discussion to a topic?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-move-chat-discussion-to-a-topic/259257
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [March 24, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-move-chat-discussion-to-a-topic/259257 "2023-03-24T09:11:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@MerryMinstrel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MerryMinstrel)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-move-chat-discussion-to-a-topic/259257/1 "2023-03-24T09:11:54Z")
Hi! I did try to search in the forum for an answer but did not find anything.
Is it possible somehow to move messages from a chat to create a new topic? Except making a long quote with all of the messages in the first message of the new topic.
I am encountering a situation where my users sometimes start really great discussion tread in a chat room which would work great as a topic in our forum. The problem is that in a chat these discussions will die off after a day or two and they will not get indexed by search engines. I’m really missing a feature to promote great discussions into a new topic.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2026, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-move-chat-discussion-to-a-topic/259257/2 "2026-07-22T01:52:39Z")
35 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Moving conversations from chat to topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-conversations-from-chat-to-topics/253209)
3 votes have been moved.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2026, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-move-chat-discussion-to-a-topic/259257/3 "2026-07-22T01:52:40Z")