hi all,
I'd like to propose trying to crowdfund some added features to the new direct/private messaging extension that's being built out for 2.0 to make it more useful for communities from the start.
Here's a few things I was thinking should be added to make it more useful & functional - these items will also help to make it more palatable for people wanting to migrate from their old forum software to flarum:
1- being able to send a message to more than 1 person at a time
-- there should be permissions/settings to control how many users can be included in the message as well as what groups can and cannot use this feature
2- sending messages to user groups.
-- this will DEFINITELY require permissions/settings as it could get abused and cause forums to crash if someone is trying to send a group message to a user group with a large number of users in it
3- potentially allowing users to build their own direct/private message groups to make sending messages easier
any thoughts on this @Darkle since you're building out the extension for 2.0?
right now I have a forum that isn't running on flarum yet, but it does have almost 600k posts and nearly 180k private messages. adding to the functionality of the planned DM system for 2.0 will speed up my move to flarum.