🔗 Conversations

Are coherent exchanges of private messages.

Features:

• Display like forum threads; render messages like forum posts.
• Permit any number of participants, including only one, e.g., to keep notes for yourself.
• Any member of an authorised group can start one with any other member(s) of authorised groups who have not disallowed it via the User CP.
• Auto-complete participant names.
• Minimise storage: each message stored once only versus once for each participant under the default PM system.

🔗 Conversation messages

Are posted with the standard MyBB editor.

Features:

• Links.
• Images.
• Embedded videos.
• Styling.
• Smilies.
• MyCodes in general.
• Attachments (see here).

🔗 User CP integration

The User CP Messenger menu is replaced with a Conversations menu. All member-oriented plugin pages feature the User CP sidebar.

Conversations menu items:

• Compose (a new conversation).
• Conversations (lists those in which you're a participant).
• Unread Conversations (as above).
• Conversation Groups (as above).
• Folder-based items (see here).

🔗 Message folders

Features:

• Shared with the default PM system.
• List individual conversation messages, not conversations.
• Entries:
  • Inbox
  • Unread
  • Sent Items
  • Drafts
  • Trash Can
  • Custom folders
  • Edit Folders
• Move messages between folders.
• Delete/trash messages.

🔗 Attachments

Features:

• Use the same familiar interface as forum threads.
• Private: only accessible to the conversation's participants, even if the link goes public.
• Adds a MyConversations Attachment Manager User CP page; complements the Attachments Manager for forum thread attachments.
• [For admins] Recognise the corresponding forum attachment settings, including the per-usergroup setting "Can post attachments?".
• [For admins] Integrate with the existing ACP interface at Forums & Posts -> Find Orphaned Attachments and Forums & Posts -> Attachment Statistics.

🔗 Quoting

Features:

• Auto-quote a message by clicking its bottom-right Reply button.
• Link-back: a green arrow links back to the quoted message, as for quoted forum posts.

🔗 Likes

Features:

• "Like" (and then unlike) messages in-page without page reload.
• A list of "likers" shown at the bottom of each message.

🔗 MyAlerts integration

Adds the following MyAlerts alert types:

• Alert me when a message of mine is liked.
• Alert me when somebody adds me to a conversation (including by starting one with me in it).
• Alert me when somebody adds me to a conversation group (including by starting one with me in it).

🔗 Email notifications

Choose per conversation whether to receive emails for:

• Messages by others.
• Your own messages.

Defaults can be set in the User Control Panel.

🔗 Conversation groups

A conversation group is a sort of "private forum lite", comprised of participants, their rights, and conversations.

Features:

• Each participant can view all group conversations.
• Manage membership at group rather than conversation level.

Conveniences:

• Saves entering the same participants for each new conversation.
• Saves having to add a new participant to all existing group conversations.

🔗 A rights system

Five basic rights:

• Add participants to the group/conversation.
• Remove participants from the group/conversation.
• Rename the group/conversation.
• Create new group conversations or new conversation replies.
• Assign rights to / revoke them from another participant.

See also the MyConversations Rights Help Page, installed with the plugin.

🔗 Conversation and group listing pages

Provides these listings, paginated at 20 items per page:

• Conversations (in which you're a participant).
• Unread conversations (of yours; a green arrow links to each first unread message).
• Groups (in which you are a participant).
• Group conversations (in each group in which you're a participant).
• Unread group conversations (of yours; with that same green arrow).

🔗 User CP options

Adds these options to the User CP:

• Allow other members to add me to conversations and conversation groups, including by starting new ones with me.
• Notify me by email when somebody starts a conversation with me.
• By default, notify me by email of new replies by other participants in conversations in which I'm a participant.
• By default, email me copies of my own messages in conversations.

🔗 Searchability

Search conversation messages:

• By conversation subject and/or message body.
• Returning conversations and/or messages.
• Stipulating extra conditions like author, participants, conversation group, and conversation folder.
• Using quick-search boxes on the various listing pages.

🔗 [For admins] A migration tool

Migrates preexisting private messages to conversations. Necessary because, when activated, MyConversations disables the default private messaging system.

Features:

• Non-impactful on the default private messaging system. No changes are made to the default private message database table.
• Non-redundant: MyConversations does not duplicate messages but simply retrieves them from the default private message database table when it needs them.
• Restorable: if MyConversations is uninstalled, the default private messaging system is restored to its original state.

🔗 [For admins] A reverse-migration tool

Migrates conversations to private messages.

Rationale:

• This is an anti-lock-in tool so that if MyConversations is uninstalled, messages posted in conversations can still be accessible as private messages via the default private messaging system.

Limitations:

• Message attachments are not migrated, because they are not supported by the default private messaging system.
• Conversation groups are not migrated, again because they are not supported by the default private messaging system.

🔗 [For admins] Miscellaneous features

• Settings to toggle on and off (enable/disable) conversation message attachments and conversation message likes.
• A per-group permission: "Can start conversations and conversation groups?", defaulting to "No" for users in the Awaiting activation and Banned groups, and otherwise to "Yes".
• "Purge Spammer" also purges the spammer's conversation messages, plus any conversations which contain only messages by the spammer.