Private Messages - New Feature Released

Greetings,

After hours and hours of hard work and testing we have finally finished a new and exciting feature - Private Messages - available to all Polish Forums members. Users can now send PM messages in the same way they make posts on the forums. Hopefully it will decrease the number of private chats between members on public threads.

The Private Messages feature works in a similar, intuitive way to most email software plus there's something extra. There are three folders: Inbox, Sent, and Reminders. The Inbox folder contains all received messages; the Sent folder stores sent messages. The extra folder - Reminders - stores messages you may want to send to yourself to remind you of something important. All folders are updated in real time and are accessible from every page.

In addition, we included a reporting tool in case you receive spam or an offensive message. To report a message, just click on the "Report" link and confirm. The message will then be forwarded to forum administrators and the abuser will be subject to suspension.

We hope you'll enjoy this new feature. And we encourage all members to support our project by making a voluntary donation. Please visit the Support PF page for more information.

Polish Forums Team

Admin,

Thank you for this new development, its always good to see things moving forward, however i can only see one negative, know the interaction between groups of people is going to fall away because a lot of the conversation will be done privately, therefore less debate happening which can only be a negative for the sight overall.

I'm not downing your idea or your step forward just putting a different spin on it.

Thnx

Tornado

There's a limit of storage of PM messages so I wouldn't worry. Besides, most private conversations will be related to off-topic discussions so nothing will be missed :).

Admin

Admin

good idea, that PM

thanks

Woohoo....just tried it out....thanks admin....btw, money is on it's way. :)

Thanks Admin!!! :-)

good point, thnx for PM

fantastic lads well done... how do i switch it off... why on earth would i want some snotty nosed little turd sending me private messages...?

hmm, bubba has a point admin! Can we block people from sending us PM's? I'm just thinking of certain arguments on here recently. What's to stop people sending other people constant, abusive PM's? Are you moderating them as well?

arguments, really on polishforums.com are you series, i haven't seen an argument for at least three minutes :)

don't worry about those abusive messages, just dispense of them and ignore the degenerate sending them

Okay! Thanks Admin! :-)

are you a happy dolly now :)

Absolutely.

I'll need to go away and have a look at this private messaging thing. :-)

put it this way however messages me either good or bad i will reply in kind!!!! i won't go running to mummy and daddy admin, BELIEVE ME

Yeah I get that but I meant if someone was bombarding another person with trash talk etc.

And its not Mummy and Daddy - Admin is Big Brother. ;-)

Nice new addage of the feature.!

that's great admin!

now why is my inbox empty :P


did i miss the storage capacity of these?

That's the same question I was going to ask.

It varies depending on our budget, but currently it's 15 inbox, 10 sent, 5 reminders.

so will the oldest be deleted, or will the system prompt you to eliminate messages?

No -- for the same reason people haven't stopped using email just because of an occasional unwanted message they may receive. If someone sends you an unwanted or unpleasant message, there's the "Report" link you may use in such cases.

Admin

The oldest will be automatically deleted from the "Sent" folder. You will be promped to delete any message from the "Inbox" folder though.

Very nice idea Admin. You guys are working hard, and putting your heart and soul into this PF. What a cool bunch you you are....Thank you.

Admin this is great :))))

Appreciate the hard work.

I just sent myself a reminder to see if it works

How about it.. I agree with BW

I`m gald that that I didnt give PF my real email address when I joined

Hmm well I hope this doesn't cause problems with some of our members, I can already see the "Me want marry Polish girl, me good man" crowd that sometimes plagues the Singles forum abusing the feature.

what about that privacy statement??????