Have they eliminated the PM or am I missing it under this new format?
If you click on the individual user’s data at the left of the screen, there’s an option that comes up called, “Start a Conversation.”
I think that may be what used to be the PM option.
On the right hand side, click on Conversations. That’s what they call the PMs.
PMs are now called “conversations”. Next to your avatar and public profile link listing on the right is the link to your “conversations”. If you have any going it will show a number in parenths after the link. CLick the link to access your “conversations”.
To start a conversation {PM} with someone, you can click the link on the bottom of their posting in a thread.
Ahh, thanks guys.
Conversations is where the PM feature lays hidden away.
I appreciate the help.
I am having one helluva time trying to find stuff with this new format. Don’t like it so far.
I notice that there’s no “Preview” option in “Conversations”, and that adding pictures and/or links is seemingly not possible. [:^)]
Wayne
Nor does it appear possible to edit your message after you post it. So watch what you say!!!
John
It seems to be the new forum software trend to call private messages by some other name. This and another forum I frequent changed their forum software and now IMO, both are harder to use. These “ephimisms” that the designers are coming up with make it confusing. If I’m going to have a private conversation, please call it private! Both forums now have some other description for the PM system that make it totally unclear if your conversations are private or note. I hate it personally. New fangled forums etc or am I just getting old and crotchity? I think not.
We are all getting older. Crotchity is an option.
There is the saying bantered around here when they change something on the forum: Change is inevitable, adapting is optional.
Or, as I like to put it: “It’s like the Star Trek Borg= " You WILL be assimilated!”
Either you adapt to the new format or you don’t have the forum to use. It is YOUR choice. SImple as that.
I don’t like the additional computers on my new vehicle, but will have to get used to them {and their various idiosyncrasies or failures} or not drive a new car what with computerized chips in keys and all. But I will adapt to them. Simple as that.
Note too, that if I send a conversation note to someone, I can see no real way to tell if they’ve read it. If I had sent a private message, I could watch the counter that tells how many times it has been viewed, and have my answer.[sigh]
Probably because someone at the software company (Telligent) had the idea that what people were craving was yet another poorly implemented “asynchonous group chat”, rather than the old solution - which was essentially a private forum with two participants.
Possibility with new version: having more than two participants in the “conversation”, with text messages visible for all participants. Not quite cutting edge technology about two decades ago.
Things missing in new version: quoting, inserting images, a cancel button if you decide to not send something you have written (…), an option to edit messages ofter they are sent, counters to see how many times the thread has been read/send confirmation/delivery confirmation etc.
In summary : the new version’s poorly implemented “conversations” are less useful than the old version “personal messages”.
Stuff happens
Grin,
Stein
Seems we’re not the only ones who are struggling with “change”. In recent weeks Yahoo! has decided to completely revamp their Yahoo! Groups format (to make it look more like Facebook) and is getting plenty an earful for it from users. Being a user there myself, I’m with those who are not all too keen with the new look because I see little benefit (to me) from the changes that I’ve seen so far. Thankfully, one of my “groups” has somehow been overlooked in the update and still has the old format. To that I exclaim, “Yahoo!”
I, too, am less than thrilled with the new “conversation” format vs. PMing for some of the same reasons given by Norris (Murphy Siding) and John (jwhitten). Basically you have one shot at. Once you’ve posted, there’s no way to go back to edit it. Perhaps it’s just an oversight. I hope so. I almost inevitably go back and correct or clarify something that I’ve written.
Tom