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Title: Ability to search PM's
Post by: jrgp on March 25, 2008, 06:46:07 am
Why the hell does SMF not have a PM searching feature?

I've got a few hundred PM's and there's something I just can't find.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: blackdevil0742 on March 25, 2008, 06:53:04 am
Isn't the PM limit like 20-30 messages?
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: PaFel on March 25, 2008, 07:23:33 am
Isn't the PM limit like 20-30 messages?

Screen:

(13 pages in inbox and 12 in outbox...)

If you PM with lot of people then it would be usefull. for me it's not that important 'cause I PM with ~4 persons.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: blackdevil0742 on March 25, 2008, 07:39:34 am
You do know that there is a delete button... why keep over 50 messages and I highly doubt you need to keep all of them.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: PaFel on March 25, 2008, 07:45:50 am
Some of them are just important and some less important have links, pics. It's good to keep 'em.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: NinjaGimp369 on March 25, 2008, 07:54:13 am
I have 60 messages, used to have a lot more but deleted all the useless ones, it's a lot easier to look for the stuff you need if you get rid of all the pointless stuff just sitting around in your inbox.

A search function would be excellent for the more frequent PM'ers though.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: El_Spec on March 25, 2008, 09:48:08 am
I guess it would be useful to have for those with a lot of PMs.  A lot of people wouldn't really use it though.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: a-4-year-old on March 25, 2008, 09:55:12 am
Delete them?

The only relevant ones are the first pages
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on March 25, 2008, 12:07:21 pm
If you need to be able to search your private messages, just enable the e-mail notification of new PMs (if you don't have it enabled already) and just search your mail inbox instead.

(this is what I do)
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: ausdat14 on March 26, 2008, 06:54:28 am
ah yes!! good tips there ninjadick  :P

learn to soldat  [pigtail]
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: Horve on March 26, 2008, 02:03:23 pm
ah yes!! good tips there ninjadick  :P

learn to soldat  [pigtail]

what? a retard
maybe if you have links in pms and keep those cloggers just for that, why not make a "favourites"/"soldat link bookmarks" function that would just help store relevant links/pics so you wouldn't have to browse through all of your worldly possessions?
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: The Bone Collector on March 26, 2008, 06:31:08 pm
ah yes!! good tips there ninjadick  :P

learn to soldat  [pigtail]
Ahahaha... NinjaGimps got someone who hates him.
Ontopic: I agree for this one :)
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: NinjaGimp369 on March 27, 2008, 03:54:41 am
Hahaha, he sent me a nice little PM too. It's people like him who shame Aussie Soldat.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: echo_trail on March 27, 2008, 05:53:54 am
If you need to be able to search your private messages, just enable the e-mail notification of new PMs (if you don't have it enabled already) and just search your mail inbox instead.

(this is what I do)

I see.. but getting e-mails all the time is just annoying, really. In fact, I hate getting e-mails, and I haven't even gotten smited with spammail on my new one yet. I quite like the idea here that jrgp brought up. Like me, I have 221 PMs currently, and I don't really wanna delete any of them. Surely there are some of them that I will never check out again, but I actually like to go through some of them on dull days just to see if I forgot anything, you know?
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: jrgp on March 27, 2008, 02:34:58 pm
Thanks, echo. I highly doubt there isn't a searching PM's add on for SMF, and if there isn't, it wouldn't take more than a half hour for someone like Flies or EH to code one. Maybe it's something you guys could consider.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: M.rSnow on March 30, 2008, 05:45:13 pm
If i get an important messange il either screen it and put it in a certain folder or just copy it.
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on March 30, 2008, 09:17:03 pm
If you need to be able to search your private messages, just enable the e-mail notification of new PMs (if you don't have it enabled already) and just search your mail inbox instead.

(this is what I do)

I see.. but getting e-mails all the time is just annoying, really. In fact, I hate getting e-mails, and I haven't even gotten smited with spammail on my new one yet. I quite like the idea here that jrgp brought up. Like me, I have 221 PMs currently, and I don't really wanna delete any of them. Surely there are some of them that I will never check out again, but I actually like to go through some of them on dull days just to see if I forgot anything, you know?

Do you really get PMs so often that the e-mails would be annoying?
Title: Re: Ability to search PM's
Post by: echo_trail on March 31, 2008, 05:08:54 am
Well... yes, actually. I mean, it's not critical, but the feature would be a nice addition, me thinks.