# Reply privately to post / personal message disappeared with update

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-privately-to-post-personal-message-disappeared-with-update/234060
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 26, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-privately-to-post-personal-message-disappeared-with-update/234060 "2022-07-26T18:54:01Z")
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### Author: ![Frully](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/frully/32/235059_2.png) [@Frully](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frully)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-privately-to-post-personal-message-disappeared-with-update/234060/1 "2022-07-26T18:54:01Z")

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Version 2.9.0.beta7

Lost the reply-as-personal-message Option in the reply dialogue, and the Create Message option in the create topic dialogue.  
Private messages are enabled.

My forum:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/9/4/8943244c5ccfe4c82eebdcf01e468c39f10dacca.png)  
Meta:  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/6/4/16464b306c645f37b66bf54636fce0434645587f.png)

Sunday night upgraded after it had been a month or two, so skipped several updates, unfortunately I don’t know exactly when the change happened. I don’t see it as an option here on meta either, so I presume it might be intentional. No settings expose the option, and I can’t find anything in the changelog. Am I crazy?  
I can still access the messages section with the hamburger/user menu and ‘new message’ is in there, so messages are enabled.

Edit because locked-thank you @Moin for the direction. All that searching and nothing obvious in the titles for private, message, personal, reply. Glad someone is on the ball!

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-privately-to-post-personal-message-disappeared-with-update/234060/2 "2022-07-26T19:07:13Z")

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The change was discussed here

> [@Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-creating-new-topic-from-linked-post/227866/2):
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> I am putting this in UX, it is working as designed but I get the complaints about oddness. I wonder if the long term solution here is just to remove: Cause this use case is very odd and confusing to explain (also it makes drafts super confusing)… plus this works just fine: @awesomerobot / @j.jaffeux thoughts?

And [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/there-is-no-longer-the-ability-to-directly-pm-someone-when-replying-to-a-topic-can-i-re-enable/233071/7) are tipps for alternatives

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-privately-to-post-personal-message-disappeared-with-update/234060/3 "2022-07-26T19:29:23Z")

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