# Whats the difference between pm messages and topic replies?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [15 يوليو 2015، 7:09ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-difference-between-pm-messages-and-topic-replies/31072 "2015-07-15T07:09:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)\
**Post date:** [15 يوليو 2015، 1:01م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-difference-between-pm-messages-and-topic-replies/31072/4 "2015-07-15T13:01:35Z")

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> [@h1onE](#):
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> For example i noticed that the “Reply as linked Topic” feature is missing.

Assuming that you would only want to do that to send a message to someone who is already a participant, you can click on their avatar on the relevant post and choose “Message” from their usercard. It will start the message with a link to the post in question. Maybe not ideal, but pretty close.

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