sometimes i go to my flashii.net bookmark and immediately click on chat only to see for a split second i have a dm notification. so then i have to open a new flashii tab again to see it. idk
where would it even go? if there was a button in the chat UI that led entirely out of the chat, it would probably be extremely frustrating UX. only thing i could see working is it showing up in the chat itself under the "Welcome to Flashii Chat" bit, but idk...
Dying of boredom, I'll try it all...
The site PM system and chat DM system are intentionally separate systems because they serve different purposes in my eyes. Though the chat DM system is currently somewhat deemphasised because the user experience sucks balls.
That being said, I do want to have some kind of notification in chat for when a site PM is received, but I'm not really sure how to implement this yet, the thing I have in mind doesn't really make sense until I've done the channel system overhaul and chat DMs are actually seen as channels internally as opposed to quirky unicast messages that exist in some limbo (thank u AJAX Chat). Even then for the Big site PM system you'd still be sent to a new tab, but at least you'd get a notification.
That being said, I do want to have some kind of notification in chat for when a site PM is received, but I'm not really sure how to implement this yet, the thing I have in mind doesn't really make sense until I've done the channel system overhaul and chat DMs are actually seen as channels internally as opposed to quirky unicast messages that exist in some limbo (thank u AJAX Chat). Even then for the Big site PM system you'd still be sent to a new tab, but at least you'd get a notification.
