New-message links crashes with unfriendly error when not logged in

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If you open this very URL while logged into this forum and current release, the feature works as intended:

https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?groupname=team&title=topic%20title&body=topic%20body

Open it in an incognito session though, and you’ll see:

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Neither button accomplishes anything, and if you use the login button in the header you don’t get returned to the new-message URL.

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Hmm we should not have such a painful anon experience here @techapj

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Fixed via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/65e80aba0344f85a52e89f7de0d3b387d74b7ba8

Thanks for reporting this issue @themightychris :+1:

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