# Chat replies missing excerpt

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-replies-missing-excerpt/305991
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [April 29, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-replies-missing-excerpt/305991 "2024-04-29T19:12:08Z")
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### Author: ![dsims](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dsims/32/485916_2.png) [@dsims](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dsims)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-replies-missing-excerpt/305991/1 "2024-04-29T19:12:08Z")

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I recently rebuilt my self-hosted discourse and I see now that all chat replies lost the excerpt text. The reply-to avatar is still visible though and the href id is correct and clicking takes you to the correct post.

Making a new reply shows the excerpt after posting, but if you close the chat it disappears like the others.

### 3.3.0.beta2-dev ([f7a1272fa4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/f7a1272fa48f2d3dd36668757b1b4e07013a3f0d))

(I have no related plugins or modifications to interfere AFAIK)

 ![Screenshot 2024-04-29 at 3.08.31 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/9/4/d945015c700fae28f0010ab4b13ecffdbc37d128.png)  
 ![Screenshot 2024-04-29 at 3.09.24 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/9/c/99cde92ea03fb86d0c896879c33fb437eb39296d.png)

```plaintext
         {
            "id": 1892,
            "message": "testing reply",
            "cooked": "\u003cp\u003etesting reply\u003c/p\u003e",
            "created_at": "2024-04-29T19:02:11Z",
            "excerpt": "testing reply",
            "chat_channel_id": 2,
            "streaming": false,
            "user": {...},
            "mentioned_users": [],
            "available_flags": [],
            "chat_webhook_event": null,
            "in_reply_to": {
                "id": 1880,
                "cooked": "\u003cp\u003eearn teh powahz\u003c/p\u003e",
                "excerpt": null,
                "user": {...},
                "chat_webhook_event": null
            },
            "uploads": []
        },

```

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