# Renaming a topic breaks Gmail threading

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-a-topic-breaks-gmail-threading/39448>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 12, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-a-topic-breaks-gmail-threading/39448 "2016-02-12T05:15:03Z")\
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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:** [February 12, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-a-topic-breaks-gmail-threading/39448/2 "2016-02-12T06:19:53Z")

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I only support this for PMs, I think for normal topics a rename should break email continuity in this manner. But for PMs / group messages I think it’s a huge huge problem.

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