hi all... Real Quick - is it possible to send private messages at all to individuals? Not a spam thing - just wanted to drop a quick note rather than start a whole thread :)
Sorry no, if you wish to contact another member you can either contact them through the message boards or use the contact us button at the top of the page and a message can be passed on to the member in question.
would it be alright to do that then and is there a limit,i don't fancy leaving my email up,cos you never know who's nosing around and i love this site,hooked on it
Would a PM feature not be valuable though? I understand bandwidth and diskspace on the host, but it's not THAT much!
Being a bit of a web developer myself, i terribly miss features such as Private Messages and other facilities. Although my main line is Graphics work :)
Maybe time to Migrate the forum & posts to another message board? :D
Deano, I'm a PHP/HTML developer and I know from bitter experience that people hate change. UKCS has got a great following thus far and any change to the forum software would go down like a lead balloon.
Another good reason not to change is that it's not a common web app (possibly self built?) so it won't attract the kiddie hackers that other boards such as phpBB, etc have to suffer.
That said, a simple PM facility shouldn't take too long to build - but is it worth everyones time and effort when people can be contacted via the team directly?