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More updates to private messages

Posted by Kim on October 1, 2017, 9:40am

You now have a 15 minute window to edit sent private messages, so you can catch and correct typos!
I've always mentally modeled PMs after emails or letters, where once you send it, it belongs to the person who received it. They can then keep it, refer back to it later, treasure it or discard it as they see fit. It becomes something privately sent, rather than publicly performed. This is one of the ways I distinguish forums and private messages.

That said, I also understand that if you're going to send something that might become a keepsake, it's disheartening when you realize moments after it's too late that there's a glaring mistake in the middle of that message! So I'm trying to balance the keepsake idea with people's thirst to have typo free messages, by allowing edits to private messages for 15 minutes after sending.

Other updates

  • Support for OOC chatter now continues to work even if you have quoted someone else's post before your OOC reply.
  • Added a link to mark a PM conversation as unread, directly from the conversation. Look in the sidebar on desktop, or beneath the conversation messages on mobile.
  • Added the ability to move a PM conversation to a new folder directly from that conversation, no need to go through the inbox any longer.
  • Added icons to PM sidebar management links, for easier at-a-glance usage.
  • File structure related to PMs has been changed slightly on my end, for example from https://www.rprepository.com/community/composepm.php to https://www.rprepository.com/community/pm/compose.php This was really just to make my programming life a little easier. Hopefully you won't notice any differences in how things work on your end!
  • "Did you know?"s have been updated.

Comments

Rogue-Scribe

March 14, 2021
5:05pm

Late to this party, but it must have been hell to not have an edit time-window for PMs. I use the ‘eye’ to preview, but still some things just don’t show up until after the fact.

FantasyDreamer

October 8, 2017
9:40am

I reallllyyyyy appricate it too^^ and yea i agree 15 mins is more than enough to correct mistakes^^

Mori

October 4, 2017
7:15am

This is such a great thing that my words fail to capture it succinctly just how grateful I am for this window.

Loki

October 2, 2017
6:47pm

I love these new features so much! Thank you! :D

Alecia

October 1, 2017
9:33pm

Oooh this is an awesome feature! :D Thank you, Kim!

Lucretire

October 1, 2017
7:03pm

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Thank you, Kim, this update was well worth the wait~!

Zelphyr

October 1, 2017
6:21pm

Yey~

Lexi

October 1, 2017
1:58pm

SUPER thrilled with this update, thank you so much Kim!

Luxe

October 1, 2017
12:55pm

Yaaaaaaaaas!

Zephyrezz

October 1, 2017
12:54pm

YAY! Less double messages for me! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Vykr

October 1, 2017
11:02am

praise be

RedLantern

October 1, 2017
10:42am

It's cool!
You are talented into rp thinking!

Michonne

October 1, 2017
10:35am

AWESOME. :D Great thinking. Thank you.

Reima

October 1, 2017
10:29am

Great news left and right~~

Dragoncat

October 1, 2017
10:25am

Yay! I needed this feature! Thanks Kim!

Taciturn

October 1, 2017
10:20am

This is awesome, I missed the ability to edit mistakes!

Tusitala

October 1, 2017
10:16am

Fantastic update !

JustaBitEvil

October 1, 2017
10:15am

I love this! My best proofreading is often done after I hit the "send" button and I hate having to send a double message because I made a mistake.

FreeJayFly

October 1, 2017
10:05am

Oh yay! Now I don't have to send corrections if I accidentally end up getting something wrong in my quote when people commission me. TT v TT Thank you so much for this update~

Auberon

October 1, 2017
10:02am

I love this so much. As someone who frequently phone posts, this is a godsend for my weird typos!