I have sending private messages disabled, but users can still receive PMs, primarily via the discobot tutorial. The problem is the notifications button is hidden if you can’t send PMs so the user gets stuck in the Advanced Tutorial where it asks you to change the notification level. Currently, I tell the users to skip that step.
But that makes me wonder, why is the notification button hidden? Can it be enabled in this case?
I had a user struggling with that some months ago too. (And we also noticed another forum where this came up, but the post about the problem was auto-deleted. But for the rule of three, and since that is a Discourse customer, I will add the link to the deleted post here https://lovehoneyforum.com/t/discobot-tutorials/257800/1045) We wondered if it’s intentional and it seemed intentional to simplify the interface on conversations with @system when PMs are generally disabled. Maybe no one has thought about the Discobot tutorial.
But there are lots of edge cases that currently break the tutorial: Will the Discobot tutorial work with flags disabled? - #9 by Moin and I forgot the add that one when we found it in March.