I’ve seen that Discourse gives you option to send private messages to user, but I can’t see it available in our forum. Is it going to be implemented in near future? It would be super useful!

But why in the world would they do that?! Sometimes you just want to talk to particular person without hijacking entire topic in forum. Did they give any explanation?

We can ask the @viet about this, because I wondered as well. I’ve also read the explanation by the team. Personally I think they deliberately disabled it for the migration phase.

I’ve seen in another thread a theory that perhaps it’s related to trust level. I’m not sure how to raise the trust level though.

[image] jneapan: ’ They’ll never trust me. They know I would take the opportunity to slobber all over them. [image]

[image] Welcome to the new WaniKani forums Announcements It’s purposefully disabled.

There’s a few reasons. First, we don’t want you plotting against us (just kidding). Second, there’s going to be a time where someone tells us they are being harassed via PM. Then, because admins have the power to read private messages, we would read your private messages to check on said harassme…

Will those of trust level 3 (regulars) still be able to use PMs or did you remove that, too?

I exchanged some PM’s with @viet on the opening day of the new forum :blush:

Admins are allowed to PM anyone because that’s how we send warnings to bad kids. And if we do PM you, of course you can message back. But that’s it. No one can PM other than admins.

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WaniKani Bugs & Errors

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