# Show recipient in "sent" personal messages **URL:** \ **Category:** UX\ **Created:** [April 12, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441 "2016-04-12T11:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441/4 "2016-04-12T17:12:03Z")
> [@zogstrip](#): > > the only place where the topic list would behave this way… It is also the only place where a topic has a specific intended recipient. I tend to be more visual than I realized until recently (Apr 1 spinning clown avatars) so seeing custom “to” avatars would probably be the quickest recognition cue for me, when they’re custom - I think membername could work and having that information there would be a big improvement Currently the layout is message title - message creator (in this case, self) - number of replies - age of last post I think treating the intended message recipient as a kind of category in terms of layout could work Maybe membername - message title - message creator (in this case, self) - number of replies - age of last post or message title - membername - message creator (in this case, self) - number of replies - age of last post --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-recipient-in-sent-personal-messages/42441)._