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Frank75 Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Jun 10th 2011 at 5:29:14 AM

Unless I either write or receive a new PM, there seems to be no way to look at my older P Ms - unless I'm in the forum. Can we change that somehow, so we can access our mailbox no matter on which page we are?

edited 10th Jun '11 5:30:17 AM by Frank75

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#3: Jun 10th 2011 at 11:43:24 AM

You can get to your mailbox from your watchlist.

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Frank75 Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Jun 17th 2011 at 7:49:49 AM

True... but I wouldn't mind if I had a mailbox button everywhere. Maybe in the sidebar, or (as suggested in another thread) like this:

At the moment, we have two buttons "add to watchlist" and "drop from watchlist". Obviously, we don't need both - if we don't watch a page, only the former is useful, if we watch it, only the latter. We could make one button context-sensitive and use the other one for jumping to the mailbox.

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MrW from some place Since: Sep, 2010
#5: Aug 14th 2011 at 2:59:45 PM

It's odd, why is there no way to look at older P Ms? To save space? Can't we have multiple pages like with the avatar pages?

BioTube Since: Dec, 1969
#6: Aug 14th 2011 at 6:39:30 PM

You can:

Watchlist->My Mailbox->show messages already seen

MrW from some place Since: Sep, 2010
#7: Aug 14th 2011 at 7:45:10 PM

Yes, but I mean P Ms past the ones I see on the page. Are those just deleted?

INUH Since: Jul, 2009
#8: Aug 14th 2011 at 7:46:19 PM

Eh? My first PM is still in there...what's the limit?

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MrW from some place Since: Sep, 2010
AnonymousUser Since: Jan, 2001
#10: Sep 27th 2011 at 12:15:29 AM

I know I have PMs older than September 11, but they're off the page.

Has paginating the "show messages already seen" section been considered? (I can still access the messages, but only if I know the URLs.)

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#11: Sep 27th 2011 at 1:09:04 AM

If you select "show messages already seen", it will show you up to 1200 PMs. You can override this behavior by changing the "all=1" in the url to "all=max". It will then show you all the PMs it has for you.

This is not a feature useful to the vast majority of tropers, since there are only about 50 people who have more than 1200 total PMs.

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SakurazakiSetsuna Together Forever... Since: Jun, 2010
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#12: Sep 27th 2011 at 2:58:45 AM

How about a PM notification at the top of every screen, instead of the top of some and the bottom of others?

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#13: Sep 27th 2011 at 9:36:07 AM

Not going to fiddle with the PM system a whole lot. It is not important to the wiki, really.

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