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Which is funny because I was about to email you specifically but figured if you checked your emails as often as I check mine, then you'd never get it...

I'm supporting this idea because I mostly use secondary email accounts for forums (there is always a chance that the server get hacked). I don't think that implenting a pm system would affect the server traffic that much

I'm a fan of this idea as well. Hopefully IIMarckus will be onboard.

Where do you get that idea from?

• Email is centralized. I am a member of dozens of forums, but only have one email address. Heck, on every forum I set email notifications on private message anyway; without it I would never notice a PM on the less active boards.

• I can get emails on my desktop or my phone.

• I can attach files to emails.

• I can sign and encrypt emails.

• I can send emails directly from the board interface.

• I can keep emails in a threaded conversation. Most PMs are standalone (even with a Re: in the subject, you can only view one at a time).

• Email conversations can be between more than just two people.

• With email I can contact anybody, not just members of this board.

What advantages do private messages provide? PMs and email are both asynchronous, so how can one be more “efficient”?

I have no interest in maintaining an IRC channel myself, but if you’re willing to do it, I would definitely hang out there. That would be very useful.

I guess.

But that of course will mean that having a PM system would be advantageous.

Does it matter what server? Would you endorse it as the official board IRC?

And would Mateo be willing to help me maintain it?

A collection of people where some are more equal than others, and some have server access. Basically to remind people to go there, I was hoping you'd add a link in the navbar and maybe post a thread about it somewhere.

And does it matter what server? Is nucleus.kafuka.org okay?

You should still do that. To remind people it exists. ;)

Also I'd like to restate that I feel PMs are better than emails. Like Pia Carrot and probably many others, I often don't check my emails. Plus, it makes sense to have PMs tied to the board because, for example, if I asked someone to help me with something, and I send it in a PM, that means that when they read it, they're already visiting the board, which likely means they have the time to help with a question or have their resources open or whatnot. It just makes sense to keep that sort of stuff together.

Plus, so far, everyone has agreed.

[01:23:17]    IIMarckus    email has features that PMs don't provide
[01:23:38]    stag019      not if you do it right
[01:23:48]    IIMarckus    oh sure
[01:24:21]    IIMarckus    so you want me to design a pm system that can do fulltext search, attach files, cc and bcc, and threaded conversation?
[01:24:31]    IIMarckus    i'll get right on that, thanks
[01:24:54]    stag019      if you'd like, i will
[01:25:22]    IIMarckus    i'll put leave it to you then
[01:25:41]    IIMarckus    make a fluxbb mod that can do all that, and i will add it
[01:25:59]    IIMarckus    in the meantime i'll be doing something that's not reinventing the wheel
[01:26:01]    stag019      but will you?
[01:26:14]    IIMarckus    will you make a mod?
[01:26:21]    stag019      ....maybe

So there may be hope. This was after a long conversation about it though. :P