# 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:** ![lindsey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lindsey/32/318210_2.png) [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-new-dm-personal-chat-message-with-pre-filled-information/256988/22 "2024-05-15T13:45:19Z")

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> [@Earnie\_Baird](#):
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> 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.
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> But the 2nd time you do it, it creates a new DM conversation instead of bringing up the existing one which:
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> - Makes the feature less useful because you can’t see the history
> - Clogs up your DMs with duplicate rows

Is there ever a time when you’d want to open a new group chat instead of opening an existing group chat?

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