Reply privately to post / personal message disappeared with update

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Frully reports that in Discourse version 2.9.0.beta7, the option to reply to a post as a personal message (PM) and the “Create Message” option in the topic creation dialog have disappeared — despite private messages being enabled. They upgraded after skipping several updates and note the feature is also missing on Meta, suggesting it may be intentional. They confirm PMs are still accessible via the hamburger/user menu. Moin replies that the removal was discussed in prior threads, including this one and this one, and provides links to alternatives. Frully thanks Moin for the guidance, noting they had searched extensively but missed relevant threads.

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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:

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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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The change was discussed here

And here are tipps for alternatives