Probleme mit persönlicher Nachricht

[cellofour]

So on the forums that this happened, personal messaging is disabled, but it showed me this

[Lilly (Lillian Louis)]

oh yea this one has been reported here

Forums with personal messaging off still tell people to send personal messages to other people after 3 replies

This issue causes people to accidentally create topics on the forum after replying to the same person 3 times in a row. Noting that personal messaging on the forum is disabled. I don’t have any pictures of this issue, but I have reproduction steps and a topic that somebody accidentally created on the forum for evidence. Reproduction [not tested] Reply to somebody 3 times on the forum until it tells you that you can send a “personal message” to them. Click the button to send a message to them.…

Just as an aside there is this setting that can increase the repeat post threshold:

[cellofour]

Ok sorry

[JammyDodger]

Just to add the open ux topic on this as well, though it is an older one:

Shouldn't mention personal messages when they are disabled

The message that shows up when you reply to the same person too many times includes this: [image] But our version of Discourse has private messaging disabled. I don’t think this text should be included when you can’t actually private message anyone.