Forums » Suggestions & Development Discussion » Rename PMs?

I have a very bad habit (as does most of my RPR acquaintance) of naming my private messages "Hi", "Hello", "Hey", "Hey there", "Welcome", and so on. The bad thing is this: Seeing all these titles can confuse me to no end.

The idea that I had in mind would be for the player to go into their Inbox, and open up the conversation that they would like to rename (or they select it with the check box and select rename on the menu) and there they would be able to select a button that will let you change the title of the topic title. This could be either a change that would happen to you, or one that would show for both of you. What I mean by this, is this: In the first idea, the player will change the title for themself. As for the second, it would change it for both of the players (or however many people are in the group.) The first idea is more private and allows the other player to name it whatever they might want to.

Another idea would be adding tags to the Private Messages. Thisi idea is a bit different. I put my conversations in folders to separate them. With that said, it still doesn't help for when I need to find out who is in this conversation or this one. The tags could be as much as a short tagline, so that the player could type a short note to remind themself about who the conversation is with/what it is about. And idea could be this: "Talking to So and So about bananas." The best location that I could see this being would be underneath the title.

I am not too sure how hard it would be to implement this idea, or even how high in demand this would ever be, but I think that it is a small feature that the Private Messages are missing! I also believe that it should at some point become a planned feature.

Also, I mainly got this idea for a conversation that was titled "(I WILL THINK OF A NAME LATER)", which... The title could not be changed, so the title is forever named such. Just something a bit funny I wanted to add.

Yes. Please. I'm so bad for that too! I would love this if it's not terribly hard to implement!

Yeah, I can relate so much! Especially when someone sends you a PM with the EXACT name as another one! >.<

I'd really rather not. Keep in mind that if you change the name, it will change for everyone else involved in the PM thread too. I'd REALLY hate if people change the thread name on me all the time and disable my ability to find my threads.

I think a better solution is thinking carefully about the subject name before you create a thread, or use folders to organize your topics.

If you read the other idea that I had for it, you would see that I also thought about this being an issue. I also think that it would be even better if you could change the name for only you, and not for the other person/people.

And like SIN said: sometimes you AREN'T the person to name the conversation.

This sounds super similar to my thread on needing to see a list of participants due to similar PM titles! Mine was the reverse issue though--I had a lot of folks PM me on one subject first, resulting in the similar titles.

Perhaps that's a better train of thought than renaming PMs? Both have their pros & cons, but it sounds like enough of an issue since it generated two topics about ways to fix it!

Wow... I swore that this was a known issue before hand, and I even did a search about renaming PMs, but didn't see anything about it.

As for a better train of thought: I feel as if it would not be as helpful as renaming. See, if you rename it; you could name it something like "Pokemon (1x1) w/ Summer". You know what the conversation is about, who is in it, and you shouldn't get confused unless you create another roleplay with them about that. Which, is where the renaming for only you comes in place: You could easily slap a "#1" and "#2" on the end of both of the conversations so that you know which is which (and not just by using common sense and knowing that the one getting recent activity is the newer one.)

I also like the idea of the hovering, but I feel like it would be better to have a collapsible/small list of people who are in the conversation if you were the last one to post. If I were to go along with this idea, I would choose to make the LAST poster (that posted before you) show up underneath the LAST POSTER column, as well as "and # more" for PMs that have more than three people, so that you could easily tell that this is the conversation with her, her, and him just by looking at the small list.

I suspect a combo of these ideas about seeing people and renaming your PMs (for personal use) would be the best -- I'll remember who all is in my specially named PM if the thread is from this week, but if I am digging through looking for something from two, three, maybe even five years ago, I'm gonna need all the help I can get.

Exactly my point. If you are looking for something that you need this moment, it is a bit tedious to open ten, twenty, thirty PMs, and half of your folders to find that ONE conversation that you had back along. It would make the Search in PM function way easier to use as well, as you would POSSIBLY be able to recall a keyword or two that you used in the PM, or maybe it could work with the user names that would be showing for who is in the conversation? It would be pretty cool if it worked like that "Add Recipients" search, where it would update your inbox to show you what you are filtering for easy access. I'm not too sure how easy this would be, and I'm sure that it wouldn't be mobile friendly unless you press search. But I feel that it would be just as good if you could search through your PMs for names, and they show up in a tagged-like fashion.