PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
July 07, 2013, 10:03:13 pm
At the moment we have these limits in admin: Maximum number of recipients allowed in a personal message Post count under which users must pass verification when sending personal messages Number of personal messages a user may send in an hour Some sites like to set a limit on the total number stored, which is some ways is quite sensible. Many PM's will only be read once, then just sit there in the db doing nothing useful. Any thoughts re adding a limit on the total? How about different limits per membergroup?
Re: PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
Reply #1 – July 07, 2013, 10:13:15 pm
Unless it's been removed, Admin > Members > Membergroups > edit group > Max personal messages Been in for as long as I can remember.
Re: PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
Reply #2 – July 08, 2013, 02:22:16 am
emanuele
Global Moderator
Yep, it's there. I tend always to forget where the h**k it is... lol It may be useful to have a table in the PM settings page too, it would make it more obvious.
Re: PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
Reply #6 – July 08, 2013, 10:34:57 am
A lot of the problem with 2.0 (and to a lesser degree with 2.1 but from what I've seen it's still an issue) is that it was built for developer convenience rather than end user convenience in a lot of places - e.g. the whole Admin > Themes and Layout > Member Options area. That's straight up dev convenience (for per user settings at least) rather than a meaningful reason to have per user per theme settings.
Re: PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
Reply #7 – July 08, 2013, 12:34:25 pm
emanuele
Global Moderator
Okay, I was looking around and: the "enable reporting of PM" is under "general" all the others are under "anti-spam". Now, I don't know you, but the first thing I tried was "forum" to search for PM settings. Okay, maybe forum is wrong too, but I'm tempted to say that the PMs could deserve a menu entry in config > features and options, instead of have the few settings spread around. Objections?
Re: PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
Reply #8 – July 08, 2013, 12:42:18 pm
Again FWIW: 1) We dropped the option of 'enable reporting', it's just 'on' 2) We created a whole top level page - Admin > Members > Personal Messages which covers enabling the entire subsystem (or not), permissions via the inline permissions stuff, settings for drafts etc. (and the anti-spam settings are duplicated here), seems like it might be worth doing something like that in Elk. So yes, fully agreed on having a page for all the settings in one place, whether you want to make it a sub page somewhere or a top level page. I suppose I should move the per-group caps to that page too, actually... whistle
Re: PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
Reply #9 – July 08, 2013, 12:51:26 pm
emanuele
Global Moderator
Yep, yep, that's basically what I was thinking (except for the inline permissions thing that is not a bad idea at all! *grin*).
Re: PM limits - add limit on total number stored?
Reply #10 – July 08, 2013, 12:58:46 pm
It's one of those features that was buried in SMF but it works surprisingly well for non-board permissions just like PMs are.