# New message button not working

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609 "2020-10-19T12:42:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![md-misko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/md-misko/32/126315_2.png) [@md-misko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/md-misko)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609/1 "2020-10-19T12:42:03Z")

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Pressing New Message button in [Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/my/messages) doesn’t open new message, clicking Message from a user card still works.

Same error on my self hosted instance.

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### Author: ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609/2 "2020-10-19T12:52:05Z")

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culprit should be in one of the 10 commits since 2.6.0.beta4 ( [8c43b48064](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/8c43b48064f7b778095e52ee0a5fd3cd9467f7fb) ) where it works!

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609/3 "2020-10-19T17:36:15Z")

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I can reproduce this with my account on Meta. Our engineering team is aware of the issue and working on a fix.

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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: [October 19, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609/5 "2020-10-19T18:09:14Z")

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I can confirm it was broken by a recent commit which I’ve reverted:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10959/commits/38632f0ffd956e4c7b7d296955f10eae5e13f6dd](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10959/commits/38632f0ffd956e4c7b7d296955f10eae5e13f6dd)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609/6 "2020-10-23T04:24:01Z")

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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: [October 26, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-button-not-working/167609/7 "2020-10-26T03:40:51Z")

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Note, we re-implemented this and got to keep both the new feature and a working Discourse 🙂