4 months later

Is anyone considering creating a private message extensions? I have tried PD but it isn't working. In my Forum people need to be able to reach other people privately and PD is not a intuitive way of doing it. PD is great as a group discussion but not as a way of chating. Maybe an extension where in a person profile there would be a contact form that would be sent to the person email. But still I think the PM would be the best in my case since it is easy (just go to profile and click a button to start chat)

    bertaveira I can assure you that there will be a private messaging system of some sort, whether it be available in core or as an extension is yet to be seen but it is a common request. There may also be a slight hold on new extensions for the time-being at least until the next version is released as there are a lot of changes taking place.

        15 days later

        I'm not sure if anyone have made a pm extension already, if not I would love to make this after I've finished my poll extension. ?

        16 days later

        Looks great there @Shahiem ?. One question, will it be permission based and we'll be able to assign different groups the ability to, or not to as the case may be, use the private messaging system?

        Eldenroot but having seperate page for managing private chats Like this one would be great, even byobu is great though

            Anyway have two similar extensions is fine... because there is a way that one of them will be a premium extension in future, am I right? ?

              @Eldenroot Flagrow created their own twist on "private" discussions. What @Shahiem is trying to develop is no way similar to what flagrow/byobu provides as far as concept other than privacy. He is developing what is considered the "classic" forum approach to private messaging (PM's). This concept pars fairly with bulletin board software such as Vbulletin, XenForo, PHPbb, etc.

              I use Byobu for private on-board discussions and because it has it's own crazy twist that I like over the classic way (i.e. host meetings, off-chat discussions, private fanclubs, etc).

              What I will use @Shahiem's extension is to provide my community with "Private Messaging" through an inbox-styled interface.

              Private Discussion = / = Private Messaging System.

              @Ralkage even so they have a common ground and truth be told that's perfectly fine.

              We're not here to compete, we're here to offer the community kick ass extensions. @Shahiem is doing a great job from what I've seen and seems to enjoy himself. I'm also looking very much forward to this extension.

                Shahiem Is there going to be a github repo available soon so we can test it out?

                  Shahiem Cool! I am going to test this out for sure! Maybe tweak it myself, and make a PR