# Can't create new topic going from categories -\> latest page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-topic-going-from-categories-latest-page/49460
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2016年八月30日 21:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-topic-going-from-categories-latest-page/49460 "2016-08-30T21:06:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![nikdavis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nikdavis/32/115361_2.png) [@nikdavis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nikdavis)
#### Post date: [2016年八月30日 21:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-topic-going-from-categories-latest-page/49460/1 "2016-08-30T21:06:48Z")

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Starting with a a fresh categories view, click on latest. If you try you click on New Topic the composer complains that it was opened w/o a draft key. This is reproducible on Meta right now.

edit: adding gif

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/a/aaa7ba08f58dfd34732cfc2fea2e385ab36ad931.gif)

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2016年八月30日 21:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-topic-going-from-categories-latest-page/49460/2 "2016-08-30T21:51:00Z")

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Can confirm. Also of note, there is no New Topic button on a directly loaded categories page.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年八月30日 23:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-topic-going-from-categories-latest-page/49460/3 "2016-08-30T23:26:04Z")

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Confirmed… looking into a fix now

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年八月30日 23:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-topic-going-from-categories-latest-page/49460/4 "2016-08-30T23:36:09Z")

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Fixed per:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/591dab1bb54ac5c997e9a1fc0a13aed074374dc9](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/591dab1bb54ac5c997e9a1fc0a13aed074374dc9)

Will be deployed here very shortly

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [2016年八月31日 14:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-new-topic-going-from-categories-latest-page/49460/5 "2016-08-31T14:44:45Z")

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