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about 1 month ago
Request to features
Cyoung,
Is it possible to create a private message or direct message among each other? Sometimes we’re responding to a thread and we side track onto another interesting topic with another member. Instead of bombarding everyone with a responses that has nothing to do with the original topic, I think it’s better if we can private message or direct message another member(s).
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I know where you’re coming from but I have to be honest I kinda like the messy thread because it does give me a “forum vibe” where people keeps adding up and sharing experiences, it’s messy in many ways but it gives me the sense of community, same I’d have in YouTube comments, reddit etc .. but I reckon a way of private texting people would also be nice, just not sure how “easy” would be for the team to create this since it might involve a more complex coding! Let’s see what they think!!
Hopefully it can be done, because I actually want to private message others and have a log to easy respond and check on updates. It’s hard for me to track my response and other responses with a 1 year old. :(
@BeauteAddict oh yeah, that changes the game completely! An alternative would be a discord channel with everyone involved or just start asking for people’s social media too hhaha but I hope the team can find the best solution 🩵
I actually agree with both sides here! 😂 I really like the “messy forum” feeling too because sometimes the best information comes from people randomly jumping into a conversation and sharing their own experiences. If someone asks for product recommendations, help with a specific skin concern, experiences with a brand, etc., I definitely like having those conversations publicly because other people might find the answers useful too. But I would LOVE to have a private/direct message option as well. Sometimes you start replying to someone about the original topic and then somehow, five replies later, the two of you are talking about something completely unrelated. 😂 At that point I sometimes think, why are we having this entire conversation under this poor person’s post when it has absolutely nothing to do with what they originally asked? 😭 Of course someone else might still enjoy reading our completely derailed conversation 😂, but I can also imagine that plenty of people following the original topic really don’t care about our new side quest. I think DMs would be especially nice for those situations, or when you’ve started talking regularly with a particular member and want to continue a conversation without having to find an appropriate public thread every time. And YES to having an easier way to keep track of replies!! That’s actually something I struggle with too. When I see that someone has replied/commented on something of mine and click the notification, it doesn’t always take me directly to the exact reply I need. Then I have to search through the thread trying to figure out which comment was actually directed at me, and when there are tons of comments and nested replies it can get really difficult. 😭 So honestly, I’d love both: keep the public threads and all their wonderfully chaotic forum energy 😂, but also give us DMs for conversations that wander completely off-topic, plus ideally a better way to jump directly to the specific comment/reply from notifications. A Discord could work too, but I actually think having it built into the community would be nicer if it’s possible, because then everything stays in one place and you don’t have to start exchanging social media accounts just because you accidentally became skincare friends in the comments. 😂❤️
This is exactly why I wanted a DM option. I felt like we took over the original poster’s thread and derailed so far. Lol
@BeauteAddict EXACTLY! We started out talking about barrier-friendly SPF and somehow ended up on a completely different topic talking about makeup and cushion foundations. 😭😂 At this point even WE can get confused when another comment gets added to the barrier SPF post, because we have to remember which completely unrelated conversation we were having under it. That’s exactly why I think DMs would be so useful. I love that conversations naturally branch off into other topics, and I definitely wouldn’t want to stop that, but once we’ve wandered that far from the original post, it would be so much easier to just move the side conversation into DMs. It would make it easier for us to keep track of what we’re talking about, and everyone else following the original post wouldn’t have to sort through a whole cushion foundation conversation when they came there looking for barrier sunscreen. 😂😭 I’m actually curious what everyone else thinks too! Would you guys use a DM/private message feature if they added one? I feel like it could be really useful for everyone, especially as the community keeps growing and we all start getting to know each other more. ❤️
@BeauteAddict @Veky @Viivihtips Thank you for this thread. It's a good example of what you're describing, and it's also why we're going to be careful with DMs. Honest answer first: we're not building private messages right now. The wandering threads you were half-apologising for are where most of this community's best answers live, and a DM button quietly moves those conversations out of sight. There's also a safety side: one-to-one messages between 700 people in 44 countries need reporting, blocking and moderation we've only just started building. But this isn't a no. DMs stay on our list, we keep thinking about them, and we'll come back to it as the community grows. Meanwhile the problems underneath this request were real, and they're fixed as of today: Notifications take you to the exact reply, highlighted, not the top of the post. Veky, that one's yours. "My conversations" in your avatar menu: every thread you've commented in, with how many new replies each has since you last wrote and the latest one previewed. BeauteAddict, that's the "log to check on updates" you asked for. Catch up in one place, in between everything else. "Continue as a new post" on any comment (the ⋯ menu): lifts a side conversation into its own post, quoting where it started, and leaves a pointer in the original thread. The barrier-SPF post stays about barrier SPF, and the cushion conversation gets a home instead of a whisper. If these don't solve it for you, or something about them feels clumsy, please tell us again. Here, or privately through Message the team. We'd rather hear it twice than miss it.
That’s actually amazing solutions in my opinion! Tks guys for the ideas qnd the team for quickly implementing them! It does organize better without losing the sense of community we are building around here! The best of both worlds for now 🩵
@CY_Team Hahaha I just saw this too — “Veky, that one’s yours” 😂❤️ Thank you!! I’m genuinely so happy you fixed this because trying to find the exact reply after clicking a notification was driving me crazy. 😭 I also completely understand the reasoning behind holding off on DMs for now, and I think Continue as a new post is actually a really clever solution for our conversations that somehow start with barrier SPF and end up discussing cushions, olive oil and who knows what else. 😂 Thank you for listening to our feedback and actually building solutions around it so quickly! ❤️