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One thing I sorely miss from the old site is the ability to very easily send private messages to users. What was once one click under every post is now two or three. I would appreciate the “Send Private Message” link to be returned, if possible.

Thanks!

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Handman said:

One thing I sorely miss from the old site is the ability to very easily send private messages to users. What was once one click under every post is now two or three.

It’s two.

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I miss the ability to tell if a sent PM has actually been opened by the recipient.

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Where were you in '77?

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SilverWook said:

I miss the ability to tell if a sent PM has actually been opened by the recipient.

I went back and forth on this. In the end, I decided it was stalker-ish.

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MTFBWY…A

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Understandable.

I’ll just have to go back to rummaging through Frink’s garbage cans again. 😉

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If only that was a real font. 😉

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Actually, there are such fonts available but they are your typical mono-color text characters (and we’d all need 'em installed to see the text the way the poster meant it).

For my posts, I used a website (there are quite a few, but the Strix Ransom Note Generator did the most) that generates a picture. I screen-capped mine, modded the leading & spacing to make it look more like it was pasted together (I guess I just expect too much), and added them to my download site (now Photobucket) for everyone’s entertainment!

** BTW, I, too, find it helpful to know if someone I’m personally contacting received my message.

** AND, while we’re at it, I would also like to see the last poster of a thread (another feature from the previous forum iteration). I respect certain posters for their knowledge and/or entertainment value and would check a normally skipped-over thread if I saw his name there.

** AND, another old feature, view count, should be added to see how things are going on any particular thread. It’s another indicator that a high number might suggest something there in which I, too, might be interested.

IN SHORT, MORE INFORMATION, NOT LESS, MAKES A FORUM BETTER!

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Dumb question, can we add people to a private topic later on as needed?

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SilverWook said:

Dumb question, can we add people to a private topic later on as needed?

It’s a planned feature. It’s a bit complex because it needs to involve a voting/approval process by the topic’s current invitees. If people could be added to a private topic at will, you’d have no reasonable expectation of privacy as a participant.

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Makes sense. And a new PT can be made if more people get involved. Thanks Jay!

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Sounds like you’ll go about it in a much more sensical way than most social media messaging.