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nate
@nate
8 years ago
917 posts
Is there a reason you guys never released a contact module for visitors?

And for that matter, is there a reason there's no contact/private note button on profiles?

I ask because I made a contact module for clients, when they ask, and was thinking of releasing it as a free module.
updated by @nate: 09/01/16 04:05:54PM
paul
@paul
8 years ago
4,326 posts
Hi Nate - We have the CustomForm module that provides a site contact form, and the PrivateNote module can be set up to allow users to contact each other, but yes, if you have an alternative to these please feel free to release it.
Thanks
Paul


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Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
8 years ago
3,603 posts
FWIW, I think Curtis @derrickhand300 made a contact button for all the members on his site.

Having a button on a profile page for messaging another member would certainly be easier for members than typing an auto-fill username into the private note system -it does take them a little while to figure it out. And the button would appear only for members who are 'following' each other if you have that setting enabled. Or perhaps even better, the button could also prompt you to complete the follow/contact circle if you haven't already with that person.

A contact form is a nice idea. Another very minimalist method of allowing visitors to contact you is to put this in the footer.tpl of your active skin (this one inserts "Site Question" as the email subject, and the text of the footer hotlink reads "CONTACT site owner"). I've placed it directly underneath the footer text line that says "copyright 2016 mysite.com" :

<div id="footer_text">
                        !!emoji!!1!!emoji!!{$smarty.now|date_format:"%Y"} <a href="{$jamroom_url}">{$_conf.jrCore_system_name}</a><br>
                        <a href="mailto:youremail@yoursite.com?subject=SiteQuestion">CONTACT site owner</a>      <br>  </div>



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updated by @strumelia: 05/31/16 01:09:35PM
nate
@nate
8 years ago
917 posts
I actually already have a private note form already build into the profiles of my skins. They're hidden until I release my AJAX module. It'll probably start a chat session or at I'll at least add the option to site admins.

The contact form is extremely simple. It just forwards to an email address set in the config form. It does do the human check, so I figured that was the security. lol
updated by @nate: 05/31/16 01:14:38PM

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