@BrotherGlaucon said in Private messaging:
@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.
You are literally responding to the developer describing how the PM system is built by saying that there is no PM system. This entire thread is about using the PM system. We've had PMs on NodeBB since I can remember.
And this is a thread from eight years ago. You shouldn't be using forums in this way. And really, PMs are not a foregone conclusion in forums, but this one has always had it.
You know you can PM people in this thread to see, lol. You literally posted this not only on an ancient thread that shows that PMs always existed, but you logged into a forum with PMs and didn't notice that they were there!