Since we introduced the “animals database” in our goat farming community, people would like to add “private” messages (aka whispers) in their own topics and use it like personal notes.
Hence this proposal to add a “private whisper” or “private note” for users to post into topics. I love the universal “private note” name.
Anyone would like such a feature? How would you use it?
For notes, people can send PMs to themselves as of 1.6 beta.
Is this also possible to be planned or not really?
Improving whisper support is on our long term plan, but not slotted on to any particular release.
Maybe one day we will support whisper permission groups, but this is probably 2 years out to say the least.
能够指定哪些组可以查看私密消息就太棒了 
这将是一个极其复杂的改动，甚至比我上次查看时还要复杂。
问题在于，我们有很多代码在主题列表中维护“未读数量”，即使存在私聊消息也是如此。因此，有一系列列用于追踪“管理员可见的数量”与“非管理员可见的数量”。
至少我们需要重命名所有这些内容，但随后还将涉及权限模型等更多的改动。这是一个非常巨大的变更，可能需要大约两周的工作时间才能正确实现，且不会带来超出当前水平的性能影响。