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Jason Clark

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I did some mods to the view history on private messages, it now uses the alphabet to search for users in your history. This should help significantly for those who have 5 billion private messages.
 
Nice one Zuni, but may I suggest we have an option for 'ALL' (for those of us who don't have 5 billion PM's 🙁 and like to look at all of our PM friends at once) 🙂
 
Nope, because then we run into long queries and that holds EVERYONE up not just the guy with 5.5449 Billion messages 😉 *cough* Dennilfloss 🙂 who uses private messages like the national weather service 🙂
 
It wont happen. 🙂. Maybe if we completely re do them. It would require every message to be insterted twice for you to delete as your history could be part of someone elses..
 
Paulson, quit asking for a deletion feature, you've been told no on numerous occassions. I kinda like the new way to view PMs, but I liked having the people I've PMed last or been PMed by last up top. Is there any way you could impliment like the top 5 people on a list or something?
 
I liked it the way it was before too 🙁 Seeing all their cute little icon faces on top of eachother 🙂 But I understand that times must change and I gratiously accept.
 
I like the fact that they are all in a history. Sometimes going back and reading those conversations can make me laugh.... 😉 But a top five list would be great. Now I am going to go hide before Zuni decides to go postal on us, we ask him for an awful lot. :Q
 
What about my question concerning usernames that have names that start with numerals or have names consiting entirely of numbers or other characters? ? :Q
 
Maybe Zuni just likes to be mysterious Paulson. Maybe he enjoys toying with our emotions? :Q 😛 Ok, I am tired and silly, I am off to bed before I say something really stupid.... 😉
 
Actually, it seems to me that he explained things pretty well. From what I understand, the PM's are stored in one place(table). It basically stores the sender, the reciever, and the message (other things, too, but that's the important stuff). If one person were to delete a PM, it would effectively delete the PM for the other person, too, since there isn't a seperate PM bucket for the two users. The only way to change this would be, probably, to:
a.) make it store two PM's for each one sent (one copy for the sender, one for the recipient)
b.) not really delete the PMs but give them a deleted flag for the recipient and the sender (basically two more columns in the PM table). This may be a viable option for clearing clutter from people's message history, but it won't save DB space. Of course, saving DB space isn't really a high priority. Disk space is cheap, and honestly the forums don't use that much of it at all.
 
I agree about numerals, I was buying something from someone and now I can't check the history on it due to them having a numeral name.
 


<< They're our pm's. Seperate from posts. And if they're ours, we should be able to control them, meaning delete them. >>



Paulson,

Read Engine's post. Or, to put it more simply, they aren't just &quot;your&quot; PMs. Every one is part of another member's history.

Russ, NCNE

 
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