# Using private / personal messages as long term chat

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-private-personal-messages-as-long-term-chat/41356
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature
**Created:** [March 21, 2016, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-private-personal-messages-as-long-term-chat/41356 "2016-03-21T09:28:07Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-private-personal-messages-as-long-term-chat/41356/20 "2016-04-12T23:06:47Z")

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OK! This change is in 1.6 beta 1, with the following default limits:

- 500 max replies in a PM topic
- 10000 max replies in a topic

These can be changed (or disabled, by setting to 0) via `auto close messages post count` and `auto close topics post count` in Admin, Site Settings.

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