We seem to be getting an increasing amount of whispering going on. I'm not complaining, this is absolutely fine, but the whispers do tend to skew the threads for others. I'm wondering if its time we started operating a private messaging system. However, my early forays into shoehorning the whispering system into messaging wasn't great, it worked for the most part but I wasn't convinced of its security.
What to do.
Vanilla 2, out soon, seems to have moved to a more "normal" messaging system. I don't really have a preference either way.
Though I think it's worth mentioning that all whispers can be seen by the board administrators, which is a bit naughty. If whispers are kept, I'd rather that they were private between sender and receiver.
The problem has been that vanilla is supposed to be a feature-free, lightweight forum that we've kept adding and adding to. So some of the stuff (like whispering) is the best bodge available. I think PMs and email notifications of PMs would be ace. And this wouldn't be visible to admins.
How do you know this site isn't already like that?
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