I’m not making this a feature request yet because I’m not even sure if I really want this. I’m just curious what the community thinks about whether group messaging should be implemented on iNaturalist. edit: if enough people are in favor of this, I might turn it in to a feature request.

Group messaging could be used by spammers. Not sure if it’s actually a good idea.

yes, I had been thinking about that, which is part of why I didn’t make it a feature request right away. the advantages might outweigh the downsides though…

Are you looking for group private messages or group @ mentions? I think what would be super is group @ mentions. For example, there is a bunch of caterpillar-rearers who tag each other on interesting obs. Perhaps the creation of a @-group could be created, and people are invited to join the group…

[image] karoopixie: Are you looking for group private messages or group @ mentions? I had originally been thinking of group private messages, but group @-mentions would also be cool! if you made that a feature request, I would definitely vote for it! (freeing up votes… :man_technologist:t3:)…

[image] alexis_orion: that could be a possibility, although some people don’t respond to @-mentions. recently I was also tagged in a journal post, and I didn’t receive a notification for it. Notifications for @ 's are tricky. I recently didn’t get a notification for an @ because it was in the…

I know from personal experience that in the Forum private messaging system, if you add @ mentions to a message it “opens” that message thread to those additional users. Pretty sure it doesn’t work that way in the iNaturalist private messaging system, but maybe it could?? EDIT: turns out I was wron…

A long time since I used skype (if it even still exists?) but you could add people to a group chat and they could see only the messages added since they joined it, not previous ones. I think in discord servers it might be the same, although I haven’t tested it to be sure. Jim, from your experience …

[image] kiwifergus: from your experience here in discourse are the previous messages visible to a new participant in the discussion? Referring here to direct messaging rather than public topics/channels of course I suspect not, but haven’t heard back one way or the other, so can’t guarantee. …

if we get a third participant, we could try a direct message test with counting back and forth to four, then tag in another participant and have them tell us what number we “started with”… and maybe for throughness we could carry on the count to 8 and then add a 4th participant via the address line,…

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Yep I’m quite sure mentions in the descriptions of observations don’t send notifications.

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