System posts: - " LEFT THIS MESSAGE X MINS AGO"

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What causes this system message to be posted:

 @USER LEFT THIS MESSAGE X MINS AGO
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The system message is created when a user in the PM leaves the PM.

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ahhh. Okay. Thanks.

Would probably be better to say

  • “@User unsubscribed from this Personal Message X minutes ago” or,
  • “@User departed from this message X minutes ago”

Because “User left this message” sounds like it’s confirming when they wrote a message.

“Leaving a message” doesn’t usually refer to someone departing.

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Oh I see, it’s unintentionally ambiguous. I can support that. @techAPJ let’s change it to

{user} removed themselves from this message {time} minutes ago

“removed themselves” isn’t great, but I surely can’t say himself/herself and I can’t think of a shorter way to state it, though?

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Maybe:

{user} exited {time} minutes ago

or

{user} left {time} minutes ago

Those are both pretty short and convey that someone has departed.

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Not quite the right message, though. Exit does not equal “removed self from”.

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Maybe something along the lines of {user} removed themselves from this conversation {time} minutes ago.

Thanks

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Done via

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“left this conversation” is would make the most sense, wouldn’t it? They’re not leaving a message, they’re dropping out of an entire thread.

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Thanks for your responsiveness. You guys are all great.

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The word conversation has no meaning to Discourse and is not used anywhere else in the app to my knowledge. A personal message does though.