I am happy about this development but concerned because the group messaging UI is otherwise still a work in progress. It just doesn’t seem ready to me for use by ordinary civilians.
We have many groups we use for mentioning already and prefer not to encourage people to use for messaging.
My main issues, documented elsewhere, (will add links to relevant meta topics when I get to a computer update: added links when I got to a computer…) are…
On my site, I have a dozen or so old group inboxes showing up in my messages even though I decided not to use them and have deleted all the messages that were in them. Other users who are in these groups also see the group inboxes. Is there anything that can be done to make them go away? I’d be grateful. [image]
We use groups actively in our community but are only gradually rolling out group messages, especially while some key messaging features are not yet in place . We also don’t intend to use all of them for messaging anyway, but rather use them for permissioning and mentioning in discussion topics.
So it would be a big help to be able to have separate settings for mentioning and messaging so they can be different.
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We are starting to look at groups in our community, and can see that many of our users will be in 10+ groups. That each one has an archive directly under it will make for a very long, pontentially cluttered page. Suggest only showing the group archive once you have clicked on a group’s inbox, and maybe add a bit of vertical space between the first group and the personal message archive to differentiate them.
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re: the archives, maybe we can put in a request for either of …
When reading and managing private messages in my group inbox, I am finding that the suggested messages at the bottom include archived messages. I think this is a bug because it should only include messages from the inbox. When I’m reading archived group messages I’d expect to see more archived messages in the suggested messages.
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