Personal Messaging

[tblamboman]

Ted, i love the forum and all as much as any guy on here but i think it would be just as good or even better to have personal messaging on here, personal messaging is chatting to people straight away with out having them to post back and you have a column showing who is online so you can chat to them.Its just a suggestion but you could take it into consideration please
Tom


>>> Edited by tblamboman on Monday 7th October 19:16

[PetrolTed]

I'll look into how it could be implemented.

[GrahamJay]

Tom, how old are you, I'm 16 and live just down the road from you, it would be great to make freinds with someone with a similar interest!

Drop me an email at [e-mail]!

And Ted i think the messaging system would be great!

Cheers

Graham

[Farmboy]

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I'll look into how it could be implemented.

Is this a change of heart Ted?

quote:PetrolTed Friday 27th September

Chat rooms don't work for motoring subjects. Forums work well as people have time to constructive interesting arguments. Chat rooms are only really popular amongst flirting teenagers.

[PetrolTed]

I'll investigate the options for 1 to 1 communication but I'm not about to install a chat room.

[GrahamJay]

I don't think a chat room would be worth the hassle, however personal messages would!

[Bonce]

On a similar note, would it be possible to add people's online status next to the "add mate" icon in their profile? That way you can see whether someone's online without mating with them.

Call me lazy if you want. I am.

[PetrolTed]

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On a similar note, would it be possible to add people's online status next to the "add mate" icon in their profile? That way you can see whether someone's online without mating with them.

Call me lazy if you want. I am.

Yep. I'll do that next time I'm fiddling with it.

[jeremyc]

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quote:On a similar note, would it be possible to add people's online status next to the "add mate" icon in their profile? That way you can see whether someone's online without mating with them.

Call me lazy if you want. I am.

Yep. I'll do that next time I'm fiddling with it.

Mmmm, no need to vote for next year's BTaP 'UB40' award then: the truth will be there for all to see.

[mondeoman]

Well as I'm Billy No Mates, I really dont care what you do
NERH!!!!!!

[PetrolTed]

Forums of old would have someone's ICQ number as part of their profile. Now with AOL/Yahoo/ICQ/MSN systems that's been made a bit redundant. What's the easiest way I can help someone can have a 1-to-1 with another Net user?

[plotloss]

Why not add a few fields to the profile?

Then, if one wished, they could enter their MSN/AOL profile name/s.

Matt.

[Jackass]

What forum code is this forum running on? Surely there is an add-on available for private messaging (I know UBB, PHP-BB and XForum by Trollix have them).

[M@H]

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Why not add a few fields to the profile?

Then, if one wished, they could enter their MSN/AOL profile name/s.

Matt.

Thats a simple and effective solution saves pratting about with the PH site too much too..


and is it my imagination or do these 1 to 1 chat ideas mainly come from the under 20's ..??

[CarZee]

without a client side widget of some sort (or a java applet), it can't be done with any degree of efficacy AFAICS.

Only way would be for the person wishing to invoke a messaging session to set a flag for the user they want to talk to.. next time that user loads a page, a second popup page appears with message, dialog box and tools in it..

other problem is scalability as far as I can see.. yous server would spend half it's time buffering uncollected messages (could be set to expire in 10 minutes I suppose.. )... cumbersome..

Still doesn't have the immediacy or efficacy of ICQ & such like though..

If you can't find me on MSN Messenger it's because I'm offline (or can't be arsed with IM) - same nickname and email as on here.

[CleG]

Ted, have a look at how Vbullitin does it ..as we run a messaging system through this, it works when you move about the forum, so using the click as the active refresh to look to see if you have any messages, this then brings up an alert into the window stating you have a message.

It will also show all active users on the forum in part of the header, this enables you to quickly see who is about. Could be useful late at night J

Let me know if you want to see it working and I will sort something out.

I have some other sample scrpts that have this integrated aswell.

[PetrolTed]

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What forum code is this forum running on? Surely there is an add-on available for private messaging (I know UBB, PHP-BB and XForum by Trollix have them).

The software running the Gassing Station is home brewed. It was originally based on the ASP-DEV forums software.

[PetrolTed]

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Ted, have a look at how Vbullitin does it ..as we run a messaging system through this, it works when you move about the forum, so using the click as the active refresh to look to see if you have any messages, this then brings up an alert into the window stating you have a message.

Thanks, that's food for thought.