# Current post no longer quoted when messaging from a thread

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/current-post-no-longer-quoted-when-messaging-from-a-thread/208088
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/current-post-no-longer-quoted-when-messaging-from-a-thread/208088 "2021-11-03T09:27:55Z")
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### Author: ![tqFan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tqfan/32/238912_2.png) [@tqFan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tqFan)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/current-post-no-longer-quoted-when-messaging-from-a-thread/208088/1 "2021-11-03T09:27:55Z")

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Before when I clicked a user’s name in a thread in some post and clicked Message  
this particular post was quoted.

Now it’s always the 1st post in a thread.

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/current-post-no-longer-quoted-when-messaging-from-a-thread/208088/2 "2021-11-03T09:35:41Z")

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You’re right. Before this fix [Reference to topic when messaging gone? - #5 by eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630/5) it didn’t link anything, but now it is just the topic and not the specific post.

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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: [November 4, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/current-post-no-longer-quoted-when-messaging-from-a-thread/208088/3 "2021-11-04T00:34:03Z")

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Yes this looks like a regression. @eviltrout is this another edge case we missed?

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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: [November 4, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/current-post-no-longer-quoted-when-messaging-from-a-thread/208088/4 "2021-11-04T16:08:04Z")

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When I reviewed it we only ever used to get the URL via the topic. Maybe it somehow had the ability to link to a post due to leftover state?

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/current-post-no-longer-quoted-when-messaging-from-a-thread/208088/7 "2021-11-08T16:35:01Z")

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I added the correct fix here

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/14845](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/14845)