Is it possible to move a topic / posts to a private conversation? A couple of members are having a decidedly private conversation (exchanging telephone numbers etc) in a public forum… … right now I would love to move their conversation into a new private message thread between the two of them. I…

Seems to be. Create a PM with the individuals involved. Copy the Topic ID out of the URL, go to the Topic that is public, select all of the posts and choose Move to Existing, paste the PM Topic ID, check it and click Move to Existing Topic. I haven’t actually completed all the steps, but the PM Top…

Thanks @cpradio - I just tried it and it worked. The only oddity was impersonating one of the participants to initially create the private conversation. With the old topic I marked as unlisted and closed - updating the close message to indicate it was moved to a private message.

As of 1.6 beta, there is now a “make Private” option in the topic admin wrench.

This feature is now implemented. Details here: [image] Move posts to private conversation feature This feature is now available via: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/70fdc1036598df09d236e013fea7fcf750c7363f When moving posts from a topic there will be thre…

Move topic / posts to Private Conversation

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techAPJ (Arpit Jalan) December 31, 2018, 1:14pm 6

This feature is now implemented. Details here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Move posts to private conversation Feature	21	3304	January 13, 2022
Change one post in topic to a PM Feature	6	1363	December 31, 2018
Add "Move to new message" option when selecting posts on topic admin wrench Feature	5	1540	December 31, 2018
Move posts to new message Feature	2	1223	December 31, 2018
Need an ability to move a private message to a public category Feature	8	3070	May 3, 2016

Move topic / posts to Private Conversation

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