I’ve noticed there was a fix to discourse almost a month ago where you can’t create a PM on an existing topic anymore. I never knew this was the issue at all. But it seems this fix “broke” the ability to reply to PM messages through the API. The response from the discourse server contains the follo…

I did some reverse engineering like you suggested. The solution is as followed. When you reply to an already existing private message archetype must be set to “regular” and not “private_message”.

Replying to PM via API not working anymore

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 21, 2020, 12:57pm 2

Have you checked How to reverse engineer the Discourse API? It’s likely that the API just changed

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Replying to PM via API not working anymore

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