Issue with Enabling Personal Messages in Discourse
User wlandgraf is experiencing issues enabling personal messages in Discourse 2.9.0.beta11, despite adjusting settings and adding all groups. Stephen points out that the option to start a PM from the reply dialog was removed several months ago.
wlandgraf realizes that the issue is related to “Reply only to staff” or “private reply” and suggests implementing a feature to allow posters to reply privately to topics, making those replies visible only to staff and themselves. This would improve workflow and avoid breaking the topic discussion flow.
Using 2.9.0.beta11. It looks like in 2.9.0.beta10, the settings “enable personal messages” was changed. I tried the brute force and added all groups to it:
However, I still can’t send personal messages in topics:
Sorry, it’s in Portuguese, but the items are “Answer as related topic”, “Toggle whisper” and “Toggle topic promotion”.
The option to start a PM from the reply dialog was removed five or six months ago:
Oh my. I see the topic now. Thanks for pointing out.
I think all boils down to “Reply only to staff” or “private reply”. I remember seeing this request here in forums several times.
Just like there is “Whisper”, topics should have something to allow the poster to reply to a topic but make that reply not visible to anyone, but “private” - visible only to him and staff.
It’s a very common situation, where everyone is discussing something and then staff says “send me the file”, and there is sensitive information. A private message (regardless of how it’s created) breaks the workflow, makes the topic harder to understand since some posts are “somewhere else”.
That’s the exactly case mentioned by @supermathie in this post: Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post - #33 by supermathie
