Private Messaging on forum

tfouto

Slacor i want to enforce that private messaging is a very important tool. And the current zulipchat simply doesn't work. People dont register there.

Slacor

I'm currently investigating Shout. If I can get it to function I will enable it.

However, just like any other forum based community developed chat plugins it will have some caveats.

At some point, messages may be lost. It may become deprecated or not compatible with forum upgrades and need to be removed and possibly replaced.
Private messages may well become public or exposed through issues with the software or during upgrades.

The risk of the zulipchat instance having these problems is low, so it will continue to be the recommended chat setup at this time.

JTL

Slacor Private messages may well become public or exposed through issues with the software or during upgrades.

Yeah. I agree that's a big concern.

Slacor

I've spent some time investigating this. I wasn't able to get shout working reliably, so I'm not going to go in that direction.

I looked into the old system again, and they seem to have resolved the UI issues I had with it.
Additionally, my upgrade process is much safer as I have been testing all changes locally before making them live. This gives me breathing room in case there are future breaking bugs.

Because of this, I'm going to re-enable it.
I'm going to keep chat.ledstrain.org (zulipchat) as well, as a fallback.

JTL

Slacor Very nice