# Questions regarding Discourse features

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-regarding-discourse-features/86015>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 23, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-regarding-discourse-features/86015 "2018-04-23T07:52:33Z")\
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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:** [April 23, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-regarding-discourse-features/86015/2 "2018-04-23T23:12:16Z")

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Hi Linda,

Here is my attempt at your questions, I do have a bit of trouble framing some of them into Discourse concepts, but here is my shot nonetheless.

> [@eLinda](#):
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> Are messages in a topic numbered?

Yes they are, we do not expose this in the UI, if you click the link glyph under the post, 🔗 you can see a link to a specific post with the post number.

A theme could add numbers if it wished, but we always opt to decrease visual noise on the screen by default.

> [@eLinda](#):
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> Can I search by key word? chronology? reverse chronology? subject? sender?

Check out our advanced search page for most of the options [Search results for '' - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/search)

> [@eLinda](#):
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> can I sort the messages into various perspectives?

You can both tag and categorize topics, as an administrator you can also tag messages. That allows you to split related topics into buckets.

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> How are replies linked to comments?

You can quote stuff ^^^ like this or just reply and we carry a relationship

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> Can I easily see/sort # of messages by sender?

This is an email kind of concept every user has a user page that covers full user stats, additionally you have [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/u)

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> Can I include a space for a keyword by each sender?

I think tags is what you are after, but I am not sure.

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