# Revive this topic panel -- can it be disabled?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 3, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413 "2019-06-03T20:44:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jacte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jacte)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413/1 "2019-06-03T20:44:09Z")
In our particular forum we encourage users to dig up old topics. Is there any way to disable the composer messages that tries to dissuade them from doing so?
Edit: adding “Revive this topic” for future searchers.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413/2 "2019-06-03T20:50:08Z")
You can disable the ‘Revive this topic’ composer message by setting the `warn reviving old topic age` site setting to 0.
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### Author:  [@jacte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jacte)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413/3 "2019-06-03T20:56:19Z")
Ah, there it is! Thank you. I did a lot of searching and couldn’t find the right key word (should’ve searched “reviv” instead of “revive”). Hopefully this will help the next person.
As an aside, is there a list of all the different composer messages? And is “composer message” the right word for it? Had a hard time finding that term, too.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413/4 "2019-06-03T21:03:10Z")
Yes, ‘composer message’ is the right term for the messages that appear.
The only way I know of to see the list of composer messages through the UI is to go to Admin / Customize / Text Content and enter `education` into the search box. This works because Discourse prefixes the key that is used in the composer message translations with `education`.
Searching for `education` will return a few extra hits, but it’s fairly clear which of the results are used in the composer messages.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413/5 "2019-07-03T21:03:15Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revive-this-topic-panel-can-it-be-disabled/119413/6 "2025-12-20T20:32:24Z")
You should no longer need to disable this as it was removed a while back! It is no longer part of the product.
> [@A safeguard to reduce necroposting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-safeguard-to-reduce-necroposting/389992/14):
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> Hello all and thanks for contributing to this discussion. It is correct that some composer warnings, such as the revive-old-topic or “necro posting” have been removed. We wanted to look at improving the experience of these warnings in general; the original type was often perceived as annoying, since it filled the entire preview panel and blocked the writing process. To address this, some warnings have been paired down, so they take up less space. For others, we decided to remove them. For t…