@baris said in Private messaging:

The current chat feature has no difference than a PM system, the messages are kept forever. It's the front end that just displays the last 50 messages and the presentation looks like its a chat system. It can be themed and/or moved to a separate page and labeled 'private messages'.

Oh no! No private messaging!? Sorry, but this strikes me as a big oversight. I just assumed that all forums would include private messaging as a basic feature.

Over at Misago there are no private messages, there are only "private threads," which is really the same thing, and it also reveals the difference between a PM system and a chat system. A PM is basically a private thread with a limited number of participants. It is content-rich, threaded, and approached by all parties in a long-term sort of way.