# Reply as new message to same recipients
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 18, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463 "2016-07-18T15:34:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/1 "2016-07-18T15:34:59Z")
I am at a learning exchange in Tanzania for which I created a private message thread for participants to discuss various internal, private aspects of the exchange. They don’t warrant topics and I also don’t want to create a group for these people because I don’t like the way through messaging works for this audience and this is a short-term grouping anyway. It’s going really well however I am finding that the discussion is going in many directions and I would like to be able to start new messages just like I would with the `start a new topic` future. Would it be possible for you to add a `reply as new message to same recipients` link just as we now have the replies new topic link? Splitting messages would also be helpful.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/2 "2016-09-20T22:39:08Z")
Sure, this button can be “New Message” in the context of a PM and pre populate the target user list
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### Author:  [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/3 "2016-11-08T00:26:01Z")
I’m working on this at the moment, in case anyone is looking through #pr-welcome for things to do.
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### Author:  [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/4 "2016-11-25T11:44:35Z")
I just submitted [a PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4570) for this feature - feedback is very welcome once you’ve all finished digesting your turkey and gotten tired of the in-laws.
The way it handles drafts is a bit buggy, but is the same as [how the similar feature for topics handles them currently](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disappearing-continuing-the-discussion-from-drafts/52751), and I think going forward that behaviour should be fixed for both of them together. I’m prepared to do this - but I need to know how drafts ideally should be handled in this instance.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/5 "2017-01-27T04:25:41Z")
Thanks @LeoMcA 👍 I just merged in your PR.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c76f6856ea5b52bbda1e0e7b9b35bf0c46858026](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c76f6856ea5b52bbda1e0e7b9b35bf0c46858026)
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/6 "2017-01-27T04:27:10Z")
w00t! 🙂 so glad to see this in. many thanks.
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/7 "2019-03-11T22:31:25Z")
I don’t find this option in recent update. Where is it?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/8 "2019-03-11T22:43:45Z")
Yup - I can confirm this feature is no longer showing up on my instance. Not sure when it went away. I use it rarely but when I do it is a huge help, so hope it can be brought back.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/9 "2019-03-12T00:26:51Z")
@j.jaffeux any idea when / why this vanished?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/10 "2019-03-12T07:28:08Z")
No I dont think I touched this. Will have a look. Maybe some condition which use to be true is not anymore.
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/12 "2019-03-15T15:51:42Z")
Any news for this issue? it was a useful feature for my community and people are asking for it to be back.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/13 "2019-03-15T15:52:47Z")
Yes I’m working on it currently, it will be back tonight on discourse master.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/14 "2019-03-15T15:54:17Z")
To be sure, you are talking of this right?
The [+ New Topic] button ?
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/15 "2019-03-15T16:18:47Z")
Yes. Exactly that. And also I think the following “New Message” Button should also behave the same, perhaps when we are replying to the topic (not to a specific post).
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/16 "2019-03-15T17:28:04Z")
The previous behaviour will be brought back in:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7182](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7182)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-new-message-to-same-recipients/47463/17 "2019-03-20T08:30:25Z")