Private Messages limit

[WhiteWarrior]

...is still 300, after all this time. Whenever I clean out some messages the box runs full again in a short time, especially when I offer readings. A hundred messages in three days has me deleting more than writing. Meanwhile there is nowhere else - other forums, cell phone, email - where limits still exist. I believe this issue is holding this forum down as a place of communication and frankly, I'd be willing to make a donation just to see it increased even a bit.

[Podshell]

You could easily open a new email account if needbe and let people contact you via that if the PM limit can't be increased-my mobile has a txt limit on and its very awkward to delete multiple on it without losing stuff-still not exactly sure why theirs a limit as it holds quite a few images in another folder.

[WhiteWarrior]

Originally Posted by Podshell

You could easily open a new email account if needbe and let people contact you via that if the PM limit can't be increased-my mobile has a txt limit on and its very awkward to delete multiple on it without losing stuff-still not exactly sure why theirs a limit as it holds quite a few images in another folder.

Yes. And I could copy all my incoming and outgoing messages onto a text file on my harddrive. But it isn't just about convenience. I am on a number of forums, each dedicated to different topics. As I communicate by post and pm, that forum becomes my depository of messages on that specific topic. The stored pms become my shortlist to other users on the forum and handily connected to what I have been talking with them about. That is, on every forum but this one, where I have to delete most of the pm's and thereby losing most of my history here. I have been here since 2011. 13 years of private communication, and it is basically all long gone.

I understand well how it came to this. Storage space costs money, cpu time costs money, bandwidth costs money. That the crew running this website for all this time on basically a buttons and spare change budget is close to a miracle. It is certainly most honorable dedication. And it is done without ads! That cost savings have been essential is fully understood. The 300 messages limit was, I am willing to bet, a vital and conscious decision at the time and critizising it blindly would be coarse to put it mildly.

However. Beyond the practical issues I feel this goes against the concept of what a forum is, and what it needs to grow. If communication is inconvenient then users will go elsewhere where things are more convenient. How many other spiritually focused forums are there? I want this forum to live and to grow and to me the message limit is the one thing that makes me refrain from getting in touch with people here, because I will have to delete the conversations with them immediately just to continue talking. I have no idea of how many others feel the same way and I won't guess, this is an issue I feel and am sharing.

Again, if this can be resolved with money then I am willing to make a donation. The staff has already informed me that they are looking into it and I am hoping for good news.

[Podshell]

PM ing is something I havent used much on here,think I have been here nearly as long as yourself and have amassed 66 messages! So if there is only a small percentage of people regularly excede capacity one idea would be to expand individual limits on request?

[Miss Hepburn]

I agree. But, I'm just a Moderator ---I can't do anything about that kind of stuff.
Good luck, tho!!! :)

[boyce]

Originally Posted by WhiteWarrior

...is still 300, after all this time. Meanwhile there is nowhere else - other forums, cell phone, email - where limits still exist.

This website is a forum-based discussion one and not really intended for mass reading provision.

An answer to your concerns would be to operate your service on a platform where a limit doesn't apply. The other obvious one is to respond to private mail on SF daily but also to build a waiting list if demands on your time are high.

[WhiteWarrior]

The staff has heard my plea and greatly increased the pm limit. I assume for everybody? I am very thankful to the forum leaders and have made a donation to show it.

[Native spirit]

inspirit sorted it out


Namaste

[BigJohn]

Mine is up to 65535 which I suspect is the limit for everyone.

[WhiteWarrior]

Originally Posted by BigJohn

Mine is up to 65535 which I suspect is the limit for everyone.

Mine too. It is for everyone then. Which makes me happy.