Direct acces to the messages in the avatar menu

[moshpirit]

I know you have in mind to implement direct/private messages in Qvitter but, for now, think it would be a good idea to have a direct access to them in what I called "the avatar menu". This menu it's the one shown when we pushed our profile picture in the top bar, so it should be something like this:

Since a lot of users unknown how to send private messages, I think it could be a good way to let them know how (even if it's a temporally solution).

The link would be something like: Messages for the user "username".

Edit: it could be named "Messages", "Private messages", "Direct messages" or similar.

[hannesmannerheim]

i'm reluctant... i don't really want to advertise it since i think the dm feature is broken because it's not federated. also i don't want to mix the qvitter interface with the default interface too much.

[moshpirit]

Not federated? o.O

OK, I understand the UIs mix :+1:

[hannesmannerheim]

yes, sadly you can't sent private messages to another instance yet. advertising the feature could hinder federation, people might want to register on the same instance to be able to dm eachother. so i don't want to add it to qvitter until dm:s federate like they should.

[moshpirit]

Hmm I didn't know that, thanks for the explanation. And as I've seen, we can't share private notes to just a contact, but a group or all our "friends". If we could, that would be something as simple as a "private note" mentioning this user (or users) : )

[hannesmannerheim]

that would be a gnusocial feature request.

but i don't know if the private "locked" notices are really private in gnusocial though. the feature wasn't working properly when i tried it last time. it's another half baked feature that should be fixed and made intuitive or removed completely, in my opinion.

[moshpirit]

Requested