"Send Private Message" link should be on all site scheme pages.

[marahmarie]

Title:
"Send Private Message" link should be on all site scheme pages.

Area:
site schemes

Summary:
For the sake of convenience, a link to the Private Message composer should be included on all site scheme pages. I hacked together an example of what I mean (which shows where I think the link should be): http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll128/marahstest/send_pm_link_on_all_site_scheme_pages.jpg

Description:
Sometimes when you're using Dreamwidth, you'd like to compose a private message, but the way it works now, the link to the Private message composer is not on the site scheme pages.

It's only directly available on the Profile page, and the link to that unfortunately only lets you compose a message to yourself (not that you can't change that once you're in there, but by default, it automatically links to you).

An example of what I mean by "including the link to compose a private message on all site scheme pages" is here (extra link is highlighted in yellow):
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll128/marahstest/send_pm_link_on_all_site_scheme_pages.jpg

Adding the compose private message link to all site scheme pages will allow Dreamwidth users to compose a message without having to hover over the "Read" links dropdown, or else click the "Inbox" link under their username on the site sheme pages, then click the "Inbox" link, then click the "New Message" button.

Three steps gone, now it just takes one!

It will also end Dreamwidth users taking the "shortcut" of clicking the PM link on their profile pages, then erasing their own names from the "To" field in order to compose a new message to another Dreamwidth user.

With the new link in place, composing messages will be speedier, easier, and less of a hassle.

The only drawbacks are the time and testing it will take for site devs to add the link to all site scheme pages and ensure it's working properly.

Poll #5517 "Send Private Message" link should be on all site scheme pages.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (21.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
16 (34.0%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (42.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

I actually like that there are so few links in this area and I don't think this link would be particularly useful there. /2 cents

[zvi]

+1

I might be convinced that there is some utility in adding a private message link to the CORES menu, but the short menu is definitely not the place for it.

Also, if you click on the inbox link in that menu, you get a link to new messages, so PMs are only two steps away on a site scheme page.

[kyrielle]

I would think under 'create' is where it would make the most logical sense.

[matgb]

Actually, yes. I never send PMs out of preference (although I'll reply), but adding a 'create message' option there would make sense to me.

[ratcreature]

When I want to send a PM I always use the link that you get when you hover over the person's user name.

[kerravonsen]

Me too.

[marahmarie]

I don't always have hover menus (contextual hover) enabled for profile pics (depending on which style I'm using, how much accidentally hovering over one is annoying me this week, or whatever) so I wanted the other option available for people who keep them off.

Plus, just like I always read my friend's journals and feeds from the link on my journal's Recent View, I also always compose PMs from site scheme pages (I'm just a creature of long-ingrained habits, I guess), so I wanted that option.

[arethinn]

I would like to have it accessible more globally/generically than just by going to a profile page, yes. "Send message" is in the userhead hover menu, but of course that populates the To: field with that username.

[cesy]

Isn't it just two clicks, Inbox then PM?

The drawback is that it clutters up that area for a feature not many people use directly.

If I want to PM someone, it will be because of something I thought of while reading something they wrote, so I can get to it from the hover menu, or click their profile head and then the PM link.