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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 11, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807 "2017-12-11T03:59:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biscuit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/biscuit/32/94482_2.png) [@Biscuit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Biscuit)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807/5 "2017-12-11T08:01:27Z")

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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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