Link to private message a user from outside via URL

[OnceWas (Christopher Heald)]

Thanks to Vairix, we have developed a plugin that triggers a private message from an outside URL.

After installing this plugin, if you append ?pm=true to a Discourse user’s profile URL, it will trigger the private message composer with a message addressed to that user.

https://bitbucket.org/twobyfore/discourse-pmlink

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Pretty sure we are comfortable having this kind of feature in core @techAPJ already built it for standard topics

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

This feature is now available in core Discourse:

Create a link to start a new personal message with pre-filled information

Discourse now supports composing a new (pre-filled) personal message via URL! To compose a new pre-filled message, modify URL params like this: https://discourse.example.com/new-message?username=techapj&title=message%20title&body=message%20body This will open a composer window pre-filled with username, title and body. Breaking down the link / URL to show the available options, we have: the base URL / link: https://discourse.example.com/new-message the ? URL operator to add the dif…