Where is a button to reply via Private Message?

[kinetiksoft]

Hey everyone,

We noticed some time ago there is no longer option to reply to a post as a private message. Is it gone on purpose? We’re sure it was there back in 2022.

[merefield (Robert)]

It was removed as an option. Personally I was quite keen to retain it but there were challenges. Discussion here:

Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post

So, my intent: create a PM linking an existing Topic OP Post Action: go to bottom of Topic Post, hit the chain, + New Topic, switch to PM Two current issues: First action populates new Topic with Topic template of linked Topic Category (undesirable, all I want to do is PM someone about an existing Topic/Post) Switching to PM populates with artefacts from previous draft for me atm, leading to more irrelevant text being added? So this is a bit broken atm. Good workarounds exist: Use the m…

[kinetiksoft]

Oh, thank you.

For real, clicking user’s message avatar and “Message” is a nice flow too. Didn’t know about it!

[merefield (Robert)]

Yeah, agree, not a terrible fallback.