# Link for new DM / personal chat message with pre-filled information

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-new-dm-personal-chat-message-with-pre-filled-information/256988>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-new-dm-personal-chat-message-with-pre-filled-information/256988 "2023-03-03T18:51:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earnie\_Baird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/earnie_baird/32/380079_2.png) [@Earnie\_Baird](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Earnie_Baird)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-new-dm-personal-chat-message-with-pre-filled-information/256988/18 "2024-05-06T14:40:52Z")

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Hi Lindsey,

The “WHY” is the same as it is for spinning new chats for a group of users. We have people doing things off to the side (including outside of discourse + leveraging SSO) and want to spin up chats for them dynamically. It works perfectly the first time you do it.

But the 2nd time you do it, it creates a new DM conversation instead of bringing up the existing one which:

- Makes the feature less useful because you can’t see the history
- Clogs up your DMs with duplicate rows

As an example:

- [https://mysite.com/chat/new-message?recipients=Vincent](https://mysite.com/chat/new-message?recipients=Vincent) will always refer to the same conversation even if I do it 10 times.
- [https://mysite.com/chat/new-message?recipients=Vincent,david,ilya](https://mysite.com/chat/new-message?recipients=Vincent,david,ilya) creates a new conversation every time

It should work the same way in both cases.

![Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 10.36.13 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/9/c/79c93b7607f3a7f12bdd0c32dde04ddad8a43b7e.png)

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