MeFi Mail Feature Request

December 21, 2007 8:27 AM

MeFi Mail feature request: Under the Contacts tab you find the person's username as a link to their User page. I'd love to see that in the Inbox and Sent mail tab's use of the username, as well.
posted by spock to Feature Requests at 8:27 AM (16 comments total)

Apologies if this has been mentioned before. Don't spend much time on Talk.
posted by spock at 8:27 AM on December 21, 2007

Have you been good this year?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:32 AM on December 21, 2007

We purposely didn't link usernames in the inbox, because we wanted to make sure the only link on each incoming message line was a link just to that message.

I figured it'd be confusing and annoying if you clicked on a message to read it and instead ended up on someone's user page.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:34 AM on December 21, 2007 [2 favorites]

Foul deeds are afoot this festive season.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:55 AM on December 21, 2007

You people actually get Mefi mail?

Wow.
posted by Dave Faris at 9:19 AM on December 21, 2007

meh
posted by Meatbomb at 9:24 AM on December 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

I figured it'd be confusing and annoying if you clicked on a message to read it and instead ended up on someone's user page

Maybe just a little "Sender's User Page" button before or after the sender name, instead of linking the name itself?
posted by beagle at 9:24 AM on December 21, 2007

Hey! Hey! Also? Please?

Make the text box big! Make the text box biggERRRR!!!

I once got a 3040 word memail from he of the long long talking all the time, and the pipsqueakitude of the memail text box necessitated I use a word processor for something other than counting up words, agog. Boo to that.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:35 AM on December 21, 2007

Click the subject, and their user page is linked inside the message at the top.
posted by pb (staff) at 9:37 AM on December 21, 2007

You mean that when you read the message, the username in the From: line is linked to their profile, right?
posted by maudlin at 9:41 AM on December 21, 2007

(And in your sent mail, the name in the To: line links to your recipient.)

Yes, a bigger text box would be good for us prolix types. Please???

*offers pb a tangerine and a block of chocolate*
posted by maudlin at 9:43 AM on December 21, 2007

Why not a chocolate orange, maudlin?
posted by that girl at 10:03 AM on December 21, 2007

I don't know. A Terry's peppermint orange (which doesn't taste like orange at all) rocks hard, but a chocolate orange? Meh. (Yeah, some disagree.)
posted by maudlin at 10:09 AM on December 21, 2007

DAMN RIGHT some disagree.

But you have to have a tangerine at the bottom of your stocking. It's Santa Law. Because peppermint gives you scurvy or summat.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:18 AM on December 21, 2007

*tosses chocolate orange in AV's general direction*
posted by maudlin at 10:22 AM on December 21, 2007

Peppermint . . . I had a bad childhood experience with Frango Mint Chocolates, and am now wary of mint chocolates in general.

I don't really much like flavored chocolates in general, actually.

Never heard about the tangerine thing, though. Maybe because we never had stockings.
posted by that girl at 10:57 AM on December 21, 2007