# Automatically combining messages by a single user **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-combining-messages-by-a-single-user/286179 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [November 21, 2023, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-combining-messages-by-a-single-user/286179 "2023-11-21T08:41:58Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 17
### Author: ![kinetiksoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kinetiksoft/32/229578_2.png) [@kinetiksoft](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kinetiksoft) #### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-combining-messages-by-a-single-user/286179/17 "2023-11-22T15:25:04Z")
As I don’t believe such feature may be in any core development roadmap for a recent future, I went ahead & opened a new Marketplace request: > [@Feature to Automatically Combine Consecutive Messages by a Single user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-to-automatically-combine-consecutive-messages-by-a-single-user-in-discourse/286334): > > What would you like done? We are seeking a developer or team to implement a feature in our Discourse forum that automatically combines consecutive posts by the same user. It should not remain as simple as that, that’s why we propose several conditions for posts to get merged and some admin configuration fine-tuning, to make such plugin (I don’t think component is able to do it via API) fit to different forum use cases should we allow this development to be open-source. The key requirements for … Please introduce your feedback to this request in case you believe there should be something to adjust in this task. We are certainly welcome to anyone splitting our costs of development for this feature. This would definitely help us decide on whether we’d like to make this development available for everyone to use as a Discourse plugin --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-combining-messages-by-a-single-user/286179)._