# "Previous Replies" in email notifications needs threading
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [2월 17, 2015, 10:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338 "2015-02-17T22:50:15Z")
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [2월 17, 2015, 10:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338/1 "2015-02-17T22:50:15Z")
_Not sure if bug or feature … depends on one’s view._
**Background:** When getting an email notification from a post, the “Previous Replies” only include the most recent replies. This can be meaningless (and worse, terribly confusing) if someone is replying to an earlier post in the topic. Paging @techAPJ or other fans of Discourse email hacking.
- **Reproduce:** Have someone reply to your post in a topic later, after other replies have been added to the end of the topic.
- **Expected Behavior:** Get a notification email with the “Previous Replies” starting (below the new post) with the post that reply is replying to.
- **Actual Behavior:** “Previous Replies” is the last _N_ replies in the topic overall, regardless.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 17, 2015, 11:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338/2 "2015-02-17T23:02:37Z")
What are you proposing? That the email notification for the post…
1. only shows its “parent”, the post it is a direct reply to (assuming it was a direct reply and not an @name mention or blockquote reply, one among many.. you can have five “parents” for a post if there are five quotes in it.)
2. shows the previous (n) posts “above” this one, **earlier** in the topic stream.
3. shows the next (n) posts “below” this one, **later** in the topic stream
I can see a case for #2, I guess, if you are getting a direct reply to a post nowhere near the bottom of the topic stream.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2025, 11:33오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338/3 "2025-12-04T11:33:34Z")