[OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

2014-02-08 Thread Maarten Deen
I'm sure I'm missing something, but how can I start a message to a user from the OSM website? I'm in my profile, Im in my messages, but I don't see an option anywhere to start a new message. I have done it in the past, but that must have been from the old site. What button am I missing?

Re: [OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

2014-02-08 Thread Peter Barth
Hi Maarten, Maarten Deen schrieb: I have done it in the past, but that must have been from the old site. What button am I missing? just go to the user's site you want to chat with. There's a button Send message ;) Regards, Peda -- ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

2014-02-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08.02.2014 10:30, Maarten Deen wrote: That's a rather counter-intuitive way of doing it isn't it? Why isn't there just a button compose message like in any normal messaging or e-mail client? Yes, we could do it like it works with email - you get a text field where you write the user's

Re: [OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

2014-02-08 Thread Yves
Wouldn't that be easier then to script for mass mailing and spam ? Yves On 8 février 2014 10:34:00 UTC+01:00, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 08.02.2014 10:30, Maarten Deen wrote: That's a rather counter-intuitive way of doing it isn't it? Why isn't there just a button compose

Re: [OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

2014-02-08 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2014-02-08 10:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 08.02.2014 10:30, Maarten Deen wrote: That's a rather counter-intuitive way of doing it isn't it? Why isn't there just a button compose message like in any normal messaging or e-mail client? Yes, we could do it like it works with email - you

Re: [OSM-talk] Sending a message to a user from the website

2014-02-08 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 08/02/2014 10:08, Maarten Deen wrote: If I try to find the user Frederik Ram, I still won't find you and have no idea why. Why would you be trying to find a user with that name? The messaging system is there to allow mappers to contact each other over edits they've made, in which case you