Private messages

[eevee]

SIGH

I would really prefer not to reinvent a crappy version of email, so if at all possible this should just be an anonymous email proxy with a little web interface tacked on.

Or maybe we can get away with not having this at all. Use email, dammit.

[habnabit]

what about doing this like how amazon does feedback? there's a web form that you can use to send a note to someone, and then both you and they get a copy of the e-mail sent (with proper To and From headers). the only potential issue with this is that one or both users might not their persona e-mail exposed, which would motivate letting people have their-username@floofmail.com. that would, of course, just anonymously proxy to their persona e-mail.

running an e-mail proxy isn't particularly hard! I personally like having multiple separate e-mail addresses that all redirect somewhere.

[ghost]

You could leave the email address structure out entirely on clientside (for aesthetic purposes) and just have account email usernames match account usernames so all you need is some string concatenation to send it to the proper address. I forget if duplicate-named accounts are allowed in the squiggle model, but even then it should just work like Diablo III or Guild Wars 2 PMs.