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Personal Messages
« on: 2012-06-27, 13:24:27 »

I made a change to how Personal Messages (PMs) operate. The email notification that you receive will now only let you know that you received a PM and from whom, and will no longer contain the body of the text. This is to make it less confusing. I was never happy with how it handled nested quotations within the email anyway, making PM conversations difficult to understand without logging in.

This way you will still get the notification, but since you need to use the forum to reply anyway, you might as well read it here where all of the formatting and the like still functions properly.

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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #1 on: 2012-06-27, 15:09:08 »
Hey thanks! I wasn't either crazy about how the forum did that.
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« Reply #2 on: 2012-06-27, 16:23:21 »
the MAN is keeping us down!

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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #3 on: 2012-06-27, 18:12:41 »
Agreed, and well done. Somehow I think this will reduce a few of your admin headaches. ;)
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #4 on: 2012-06-27, 18:31:19 »
Agreed, and well done. Somehow I think this will reduce a few of your admin headaches. ;)

Absolutely. Now the messages will look more like this:

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You have just been sent a personal message by SENDER on ModernChivalry.org

IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to this email. You will need to log into the forum to retrieve this message.
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #5 on: 2012-06-27, 23:51:19 »
Thank you Sir Edward, this is very helpful.
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #6 on: 2012-06-28, 08:07:33 »
But I wanted more spam. Dammit!!!  ;D
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« Reply #7 on: 2012-06-28, 13:29:47 »
But I wanted more spam. Dammit!!!  ;D

You get just as much, just with less content inside. :D
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #8 on: 2012-06-28, 14:41:18 »
I have a question, Sir Edward- I seem to recall that when I used to click on a particular pm hyperlink, it would page me down to it, now I have to scroll down to it...could it be a browser issue or is that how it is supposed to work?
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #9 on: 2012-06-28, 14:56:38 »

Probably a browser issue. It still pages down for me.
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #10 on: 2012-06-28, 15:54:54 »
But I wanted more spam. Dammit!!!  ;D

You get just as much, just with less content inside. :D

i.e. Spam-lite!  ;D
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« Reply #11 on: 2012-06-29, 12:10:21 »
But I wanted more spam. Dammit!!!  ;D

You get just as much, just with less content inside. :D

i.e. Spam-lite!  ;D

Which equals Low-Fat; Low-Carb; High-Protein; High-Energy; Minus the B.S. plus kind-of spam.
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #12 on: 2012-06-29, 13:26:54 »
I have a question, Sir Edward- I seem to recall that when I used to click on a particular pm hyperlink, it would page me down to it, now I have to scroll down to it...could it be a browser issue or is that how it is supposed to work?

Google Chrome? It does the same for me, just opens the PM inbox. I used to see alerts when I would open the forums and had a new PM, and don't see those either .. but I think that was when we got the new theme / software / something. It's been a solid 6 months or more.
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #13 on: 2012-06-29, 14:31:09 »

All of that still works fine in Firefox. Could be an issue with Chrome.
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Re: Personal Messages
« Reply #14 on: 2012-06-29, 16:29:38 »
next upgrades will be taxed, just not called a tax ehhehe