# Whispered replies leak in the post number

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispered-replies-leak-in-the-post-number/176160>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** whispers\
**Created:** [January 14, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispered-replies-leak-in-the-post-number/176160 "2021-01-14T23:06:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispered-replies-leak-in-the-post-number/176160/6 "2021-01-15T02:00:09Z")

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> [@TallTrees](#):
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> The post # should match the post number computed in the scroll bar and thus ‘skip’ the whispers for non-mods. Linking to whisper posts could still be supported, but perhaps using a slightly different URL format e.g. /topicid/w-postid where the ‘w’ prefix denotes the postid is a whisper.

Sounds like an awful lot of work for zero tangible benefits.

If your community don’t like that whispers _can_ be used, turning those off with the setting `enable whispers` may help.

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