Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited part of Inspire, and these changes will make it much easier to use. Here are the highlights:
- We'll be updating the interface for reading and replying to messages so that you can see an entire conversation that you're having in a single page. Currently you can only see one message at a time, and that makes it incredibly difficult to keep track of what was said previously in a conversation. The new interface will be more like e-mail, in that you'll have the entire conversation on screen, with a box to reply at the bottom. We're going to make the changes necessary to display all of your old messages in this way, too. None of your messages will go away - they'll just be much easier to make sense of.
- We'll be adding search for messages.
- You'll now have a trash box to go along with your inbox and sent mail box. This will make it possible to clean up your inbox and sent mail box without losing messages.
- You'll be able to mark messages as unread.
- Your inbox, sent mail box and trash box will be paginated, so that if you have a large number of messages, those pages will load much more quickly.
I'll write again in a few days to let you know the specifics regarding when these changes will be made. We'll need to take the site offline for a few hours to make these changes, but we'll let you know in advance and will schedule our work for an off hour.
Please drop us a line if you have any thoughts or questions.
Walter
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