A personal messaging system in which you can send messages to other users of itch.io directly through itch.io.
Well, I guess two things.
1) An icon by their name indicating if they're online (viewing the forum) or not.
2) A list or count of users currently online. I like the simple look and feel of the forums so far, so I wouldn't really sacrifice that for a long list of names, but knowing how active the forums are would be nice for maximizing views and activity.
Hey, is this available now? (I can't seem to figure out how if it is.) If not, is there an entry in https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues ? (I can't find one so will log if not.)
Thx
Right below the text Itch.io Community - there are 4 tabls - the 2nd one is Recent Posts - if you click on that it gives you the recent activity of the community.
If I click on your avatar, it takes me to your community profile (on your creator page, scroll to the bottom and there's a link to your community profile) and a list of "recent posts". On my profile, the recent posts are actually all of my posts that I know of, I don't know if that's true for everyone.
Thank you. I figured there must be a way that I just hadn't figured out yet. I still think it would be helpful if it was more prominent. It would be nice to have a link for that at the top of the forum while logged in.
A forum is by definition a linear ordering of posts, because it’s supposed to be an indefinitely-long conversation on a specific topic. Think bulletin boards, which used to be a lot more common, but still exist.
Though I admit, the fact Itch.io went for a strange hybrid between a list and tree (Reddit), and that posts become locked after an arbitrary time period, makes this point moot.
I mean, I get it, but wouldn't it make sense to show posts in reverse order on itch where the most recent posts are the most important and relevant? There should be at least a toggle to swap ordering by oldest to newest like many other forums. I don't even have a page option and just had to scroll though 75 posts to see the most recent one and I have to do that EVERY TIME someone posts something new.
I noticed the same thing on the jams I took part to. If devs are worried about too much DM spamming, we could make a conservative system where user A must whitelist user B to allow incoming DMs from user B (at which time B will automatically whitelist A to reply). It would have the drawback or making message exchanges slightly slower, as B would not be able to immediately DM A, but if A is really looking for people to recruit / teams to be recruited, they’ll probably check notifications, see B’s reply “hey, I’m interested, here is my portfolio, and I’ll send you my Discord ID in DM when you whitelist me” and whitelist B.
But a good anti-spam / trust system can also do the trick. Personally I was contacted my people on Reddit exactly when they had something to tell me about one of my posts, and was never annoyed by spammers (I think? If it happened I must have reported and blocked them in a breeze, so I don’t even remember).
