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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-links-crashes-with-unfriendly-error-when-not-logged-in/78617
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-links-crashes-with-unfriendly-error-when-not-logged-in/78617 "2018-01-22T02:33:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![themightychris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/themightychris/32/115183_2.png) [@themightychris](https://meta.discourse.org/u/themightychris)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-links-crashes-with-unfriendly-error-when-not-logged-in/78617/1 "2018-01-22T02:33:40Z")

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

```plaintext
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:

 ![20%20PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/9/59790c885289977b0e66e33e54f6eed39bb82182.png)

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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### 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: [January 22, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-links-crashes-with-unfriendly-error-when-not-logged-in/78617/2 "2018-01-22T02:35:19Z")

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

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-links-crashes-with-unfriendly-error-when-not-logged-in/78617/4 "2018-01-24T06:31:00Z")

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Fixed via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/65e80aba0344f85a52e89f7de0d3b387d74b7ba8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/65e80aba0344f85a52e89f7de0d3b387d74b7ba8)

Thanks for reporting this issue @themightychris 👍

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-message-links-crashes-with-unfriendly-error-when-not-logged-in/78617/5 "2018-01-24T06:31:05Z")

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