# Reference to topic when messaging gone?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630 "2021-08-07T21:20:44Z")
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### Author: ![davidkingham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/davidkingham/32/119528_2.png) [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630/1 "2021-08-07T21:20:44Z")

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In the past when you click a users avatar to message them there would be a reference to the topic in the message, has this been removed? I didn’t see a mention in the release notes but I may have missed it. I used this all the time and bummed to see it gone, hope it’s a bug!

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630/2 "2021-08-09T23:42:21Z")

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It does seem to have changed. I wasn’t aware of that until just now.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/6/3672436f5534eadfe71472edae6cdbfd32cfac5e.png)

In the past I found the reference to the topic to be helpful. The few times I haven’t wanted it I just manually removed it from the message.

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### Author: ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630/4 "2021-10-28T23:31:31Z")

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So will this option be restoted? Running Stable. Even if togglable setting as it does create an inconvenience with sending a pm for moderation

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630/5 "2021-10-29T16:43:16Z")

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This should fix it! (Recently merged.)

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/14772](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/14772)

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### Author: ![davidkingham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/davidkingham/32/119528_2.png) [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630/6 "2021-11-01T15:04:51Z")

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That fixed it, thanks Robin!

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-to-topic-when-messaging-gone/199630/7 "2021-12-01T15:04:55Z")

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