Topic: Encouraging non-lazy PM subjects (SMF patch) (Read 262 times)

I'm sorry @PowerGlove, I don't know how I missed this topic, and I only saw it now! Sometimes we are involved in so much that something will escape.

First of all, thank you for creating this patch. Your effort to improve the forum has been incredible. Honestly, I wasn't expecting that much when I created that topic. I know that this patch is not of great importance, the forum survived without it for many years. But, it could one day be implemented, and help the community to be more involved with each other.

Once again, I appreciate your effort!  




I don't want to force anyone to do anything, just suggest people write something about what they're going to talk about. I believe that most people who use email already do this. Why not do it in the PM too?

The current term "(No Subject)" is the same for everyone, if no one changes the title that's always what appears. If a person needs to write something in this field, each person will write different things. Even if it's just "." or "xpto", is different from each other. Because some write ".", others just "abc", others "xpto", etc. It will always be better than finding one message among 30, saying "No Subject".  

In any case, this is not an urgent update, but it is still welcome.




Have you ever thought about starting to use Labels?
You would be able to reduce the number of messages in your inbox and have them more organized.

You can label messages about the campaigns you manage. Per user, if you receive many messages from the same users. Or any other subject that you find relevant.

But, after creating the Labels and flagging the messages in that label, don't forget to remove them from the Inbox label. See my topic on the subject.  

So can we expect approval from theymos about this patch?

This patch doesn't have be the number one priority now, but it would be nice if you patched it. Although I don't use PM that much and I am only a full member, but even I almost have 6-7 pages of PM. Imagine what others may have on their side.

I understand that people forget to add subjects or are too lazy to do so. Even me. Almost 90% of my ingoing and outgoing PM's don't have any subjects. But when it comes to checking old PMs for something important, it can be a headache. Just a reminder to add a small, 2 word subject won't harm anybody.

So please patch it if it's possible. Thanks in advance, PowerGlove 

I edited the OP and updated the patch with an additional diff that I think improves this proposal.

After seeing this answer and others I see that surely the people who need the patch are people who get a lot more PMs than those of us who don't care about the issue, and since it won't take long to do, I also support it being done.

The only thing is that I think thread titles work a little differently than PMs where the people who send them may not care what they title them because they are not trying to attract the attention of several people.

The number of pages I have for my inbox


It's impossible for me to know a subject and find a message from a specific user.


A lot of time I need to find the latest message sent by a user. I never felt a need for the subject or full message options, it's kind of useless but you can not search without it too which makes the PM search feature harder. We need "Search for:" failed disabled.

May be you have something in mind?

A really nice patch for someone like joker_josue and some other members who receive so many private messages. I hope that theymos will soon implement it on forum and those users can easily read their PM's because the sender must have to select a title in order to send a Private message. Your have done a really great job by creating this patch I truly appreciate your efforts. I would love to see those patches that you're going to release in future because your patches have always helped the members of the forum and hope those ones will also be useful for the members who receive so many PM's.

That's great work, I really liked the idea even though I don't receive hundreds or thousands of messages but it will be great for others who receive such a huge amount of PMs. It will definitely going to help managers and other service providers too. But as you mentioned in the post, it's not a problem for you but you are making it for others, I think many members will not need it as most of the members don't even receive huge messages, and the remaining ones who do receive it. 

most of them don't need it just like you don't need it but it is a great improvement and it will increase the quality of the PM as the sender will think before sending the message and he/she will double check it too. This will ultimately increase the quality and purpose of the PM and if people will start to make good PMs then the time will be saved for many users who are mostly active on messages.