Even when PMs are made staff only (the most restrictive setting), a few system messages and PMs from staff (i.e. via flags etc) squeak through.
Of note, these are heavily suppressed in the UI, and only feature as message notifications for non-staff users. They are no longer discoverable in the UI once read (but /my/messages still exists).
This non-discoverability is a bit of a problem - how do I get to the chatbot tutorial? What did that moderator say to me last week?
I’d like it to be possible for all of those PMs to be chats instead, and to have Chat given a little bit more functionality that PMs have such as these:
Add a user to existing personal chat
Chat buttons in user context - 3 suggested enhancements
THEN it would be a true choice of
- just PMs or
- both PMs and Chat
- just Chat