The magic URLs for creating a pre-filled message don’t work anymore. This is a recent regression. For example, clicking Discourse Meta should open a message to @team (or at least show an error if that’s not possible), but for me, it currently does nothing besides redirecting to /lastest.

[image] fefrei: clicking Discourse Meta As per: Creating pre-filled personal message links - #2 The correct URL is: Discourse Meta .. and it works as expected.

Uh, weird. I can confirm this works, but unless I’m seriously hallucinating :crazy_face:, group_name also worked before the last beta update. (I had inserted such a URL into a newsletter-like email I sent out, and I always check these links to make sure they work.) Anyway, thanks for correcting me …

[image] fefrei: group_name also worked before the last beta update. Okay, added on my list to look into this.

I don’t think we ever supported group_name parameter as there is no source code trace for it but I added support for it regardless. Now we support both groupname and group_name parameter, if both are present the priority will be given to groupname. FEATURE: add su…

Opening a pre-filled message form no longer works

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) May 6, 2018, 9:14pm 2

Hmm, did we regress here again @sam? This has regressed multiple times now.

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Opening a pre-filled message form no longer works

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