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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/c-shortcut-causes-draft-conflict-when-creating-another-topic-from-a-topic-page/414536>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** fixed\
**Created:** [October 12, 2026, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/c-shortcut-causes-draft-conflict-when-creating-another-topic-from-a-topic-page/414536 "2026-10-12T19:11:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/c-shortcut-causes-draft-conflict-when-creating-another-topic-from-a-topic-page/414536/3 "2026-10-22T09:42:12Z")

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thanks for the report @profcaju 👍

will be fixed by

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/44944>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Reported in https://meta.discourse.org/t/414536

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