Personal Messages not as before?

[Hansoon]

Trying to send one of our colleagues a personal message, but when using his avatar name, no way to contact. Is it me or the panel?

Hans

[slimslob]

Clicking on a name in a thread will bring up that member's Name Card. Then clicking on the balloon below the avatar picture brings up the message screen.

[tsbservice]

New panel messaging, chat, etc are just terrible.
Chat...WTF? I'm not chatting even with my friends. I'm grown up man.

[slimslob]

New panel messaging, chat, etc are just terrible.
Chat...WTF? I'm not chatting even with my friends. I'm grown up man.

Speaking of chat, a private room would be just the place for the political arguing in RREE.

[Hansoon]

New panel messaging, chat, etc are just terrible.
Chat...WTF? I'm not chatting even with my friends. I'm grown up man.

EXACTLY!

BTW: I was trying to send you yesterday a PM, but could not because of that idiotic “CHAT” crap. How can I contact you outside the panel? If you like, you may contact me here: nospam[at]rex-technika.com

Hans

[BillyCarpenter]

Looks pretty cool to me. You can now add more than one member that will receive the message. I haven't actually sent an PM, but I did go through all the steps except for actually sending it. What am I missing?

[Hansoon]

Looks pretty cool to me. You can now add more than one member that will receive the message. I haven't actually sent an PM, but I did go through all the steps except for actually sending it. What am I missing?

Don't know Billy. I only know that I wanted to send TBSERVICE a PM and landed in a chat room.......

Hans

[BillyCarpenter]

I just sent myself a message. It appears to me that even though it's called a "chat", in reality, as long you send to single user, it's effectively a PM. If you want to add more than one user, then they will all get the message. Its definitely not a live chat. It's more like a PM with the ability to mass send to many users. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Aneurysm]

I just sent myself a message. It appears to me that even though it's called a "chat", in reality, as long you send to single user, it's effectively a PM. If you want to add more than one user, then they will all get the message. Its definitely not a live chat. It's more like a PM with the ability to mass send to many users. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm not a fan of the "chat-like" features of what they call "Messenger," and seeing that others have similar complaints about useability I have turned it off. This leaves us with the traditional private message system we're all familiar with. Give it a try with the new config and let me know your thoughts.

[BillyCarpenter]

I'm not a fan of the "chat-like" features of what they call "Messenger," and seeing that others have similar complaints about useability I have turned it off. This leaves us with the traditional private message system we're all familiar with. Give it a try with the new config and let me know your thoughts.

I'm good with either. It took a while for me to get used to the new site but I'm diggin' it.


Edit: i just tried messenger w/ new config. and its exactly as you said. Everyone that is used to the traditional messenger should be pleased.

[BillyCarpenter]

This messenger issue made me think of something. Most folks don't like change. That has been probably my number one issue when trying to sell a copier when they are using a different brand. They want something as close to what they have as possible because they don't want to learn a new machine. I can't lie, I'm not a big fan of change.

[Hansoon]

This messenger issue made me think of something. Most folks don't like change. That has been probably my number one issue when trying to sell a copier when they are using a different brand. They want something as close to what they have as possible because they don't want to learn a new machine. I can't lie, I'm not a big fan of change.

Same to me, and especially as it touches something I anyway do not need or want. That's why I HATE Microsoft's updates. One example: I use daily in W10 the address field down right in the task bar. With W11 it disappeared. WHY??

Hans

[BillyCarpenter]

I kind of liked the ability of being able to send a PM to multiple people but. now that I think about it, it probably wasn't good idea and here's why....

From time to time I get a PM from someone who just signed up asking me for shit like firmware. These same folks could mass send the same message to every member on this site. Not good. I need to start reporting these members to possibly get them banned. I don't like it.

[slimslob]

I kind of liked the ability of being able to send a PM to multiple people but. now that I think about it, it probably wasn't good idea and here's why....

From time to time I get a PM from someone who just signed up asking me for shit like firmware. These same folks could mass send the same message to every member on this site. Not good. I need to start reporting these members to possibly get them banned. I don't like it.

Or you get what happens with multi-recipient messages on social media like Facebook. Every time anybody on the recipient list sends a reply, everyone on the list gets the reply.

[BillyCarpenter]

Or you get what happens with multi-recipient messages on social media like Facebook. Every time anybody on the recipient list sends a reply, everyone on the list gets the reply.

True. I want to give a shout out to Aneurysm. For the longest time, I didn't even know who he was. But since he implemented the new site, there have been many complaints and as far as I can tell, he has done all he could to address and correct those issues.


If I was on the Board of Directors for CTN, I'd vote to give him a raise.