What is the impact to the message when I "Archive" it?

[Thomas_G]

Hello discourse community,

I have been working on making a profile tutorial for my community and came up with the following question:

What’s the impact to the message when I Archive it? I know the consequences when a moderator does that in a topic, but couldn’t find anything related to Private Messages.

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Thank you for your answers in advantage !!

-Thomas

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If it is duplicate, please let me know down below

[david (David Taylor)]

Archiving private messages simply moves them to the “archived” tab. As soon as the message gets a reply, it will end up back in the inbox.

There’s a brief overview here from a long time ago:

New Messaging Workflow

We have been lacking decent workflows for dealing with messages. At small scale it is not much of a problem, if you only have 3 messages, you don’t need too much fancy. But as you accumulate messages working with them becomes hard. Recently I added a few features to ease working with message backlogs. You can archive messages in bulk from your inbox which moves them to the “Archive” folder [image] At the bottom of every message there is an “Archive” button. [image] Messages can be simi…

[Thomas_G]

Thank you David for your quick reply!! Really helpful and I will implement your answer on my thread.