# Creating a new topic that's linked to an old topic?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [7월 7, 2016, 8:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934 "2016-07-07T08:24:27Z")
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### Author: ![Rob\_Nicholson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rob_nicholson/32/63483_2.png) [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2016, 8:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934/1 "2016-07-07T08:24:28Z")

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What’s the best way to do the above? Our Discourse implementation being relatively new, I’m often finding topics on here which either don’t quite answer my question, haven’t been commented on for a while or are closed. So I want to create a new topic, in the same category (probably) pre-populated with something like “Carrying on the topic discussed in URL”.

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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2016, 8:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934/2 "2016-07-07T08:46:26Z")

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Click this button on the post you want to link to:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/4/e4014cd278ba9dbd1bf27ab455e7f0021c013b54.png)

This opens a popup with a New topic link:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/d/ad7a30ca9e4e8f2e4b35af38a8f5ccad544302cc.png)

Clicking that link will start a pre-populated topic just as you want 🙂

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### Author: ![Pad\_Pors](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pad_pors/32/52016_2.png) [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2016, 3:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934/5 "2016-07-07T15:28:06Z")

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is it instead of the “reply as a linked topic” feature?

little bit hidden, isn’t it?

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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [7월 7, 2016, 5:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934/6 "2016-07-07T17:52:48Z")

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> [@Pad\_Pors](#):
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> is it instead of the “reply as a linked topic” feature?

Yes, this is this feature’s new place since the timeline now covers its old place.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2월 9, 2019, 1:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934/7 "2019-02-09T01:27:53Z")

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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: [2월 10, 2019, 11:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934/8 "2019-02-10T23:30:46Z")

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Start typing and then hit the reply glyph on the top of the composer:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/a/4a4d6c8377158bc9b39230f2e9fb27c102066599.png)

Then select “Reply as linked topic”

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/a/aa7c1567d5dc84b080230d48aa378c18329be5f9.png)

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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: [2월 10, 2019, 11:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-thats-linked-to-an-old-topic/46934/9 "2019-02-10T23:31:32Z")

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