<p>This makes it more conventional, rather than handling posts to the new action. The posting of the form was also reworked to use a hidden field for the displayname, rather than in the url, again for convention.</p>
<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-user-id="1109395" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/Nikerabbit">@Nikerabbit</a> this PR contains some translation key changes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>messages.new.message_sent</code> => <code>messages.create.message_sent</code></li>
<li><code>messages.new.limit_exceeded</code> => <code>messages.create.limit_exceeded</code></li>
</ul>

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<h4>You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:</h4>
<p>  <a href='https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962'>https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962</a></p>

<h4>Commit Summary</h4>
<ul>
  <li>Refactor message creation to use a create action</li>
</ul>

<h4>File Changes</h4>
<ul>
  <li>
    <strong>M</strong>
    <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962/files#diff-0">app/controllers/messages_controller.rb</a>
    (42)
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>M</strong>
    <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962/files#diff-1">app/views/messages/new.html.erb</a>
    (3)
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>M</strong>
    <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962/files#diff-2">config/locales/en.yml</a>
    (1)
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>M</strong>
    <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962/files#diff-3">config/routes.rb</a>
    (4)
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>M</strong>
    <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962/files#diff-4">test/controllers/messages_controller_test.rb</a>
    (23)
  </li>
</ul>

<h4>Patch Links:</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href='https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962.patch'>https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962.patch</a></li>
  <li><a href='https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962.diff'>https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1962.diff</a></li>
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