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LPortalupi
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May 31, 2019
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Is the order of private messages a permanent change?

  • May 31, 2019
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Today I noticed that my private messages with a community member are now displayed in reverse chronological order. This means that the most recent message is at the top.

I understand the benefit of this, but now when I want to reply to that message, I must scroll down to the very bottom. This means that the oldest message – the very first message – that was exchanged is directly above the box to write my message. This means I cannot see the latest message I'm responding to. This is especially difficult when there have been many messages exchanged with a community member. I'm attaching an example – I've been exchanging PMs with this community member for 5 months now, so it takes a lot of time to scroll up and down to see what was said in her latest message so I can reply effectively.

My question is: Is this a permanent change? Is there some way I can revert back to the way the messages appeared before, with the most recent message appearing directly above the message writing box?

If it's out of my control, is it possible to change the placement of the message writing box so it appears at the top, right above or below the latest message?

Best answer by mina
Hello @LPortalupi

To rest assure you, this is not a permanent change.

Previously, customers with huge amount of 1-1 messages, faced performance issues to load the page, as it sometimes took more than 40 secs to load the page, and this is due to amount of 1-1 messages.

To overcome, this problem, we unfortunately had to solve it with a temporary solution, which you currently experience.

But we are fully aware with the problem you just described and that it is not the most user friendly solution and currently, it has 100% of our focus to solve it in a lot better way and this is being worked on as we speak to deliver the fix asap.

Thanks.

17 replies

mina
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
June 5, 2019
Good afternoon All :)

First of all, I would like to thank you all for your patience, and baring the temporary solution we had to get through the situation.

Second, I am happy to announce that the described fix is currently rolled and it should be reflected in all your communities.

The fix includes:
  • Pagination for 1-1 inbox messages.
  • Inbox overview is fixed like it was before to have the latests messages on top.
Thank you all for your patience and again sorry for all the inconveniences this caused to you and all your user communities.
Senior Software Developer @insided
freydrew
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 5, 2019
Thanks @mina for the update and the fix! Great news all around.
Drew -- Senior Communications Manager
LPortalupi
Helper ⭐️
June 6, 2019
Hi @mina. Thanks for the update and resolution!

I'm noticing now that when I click on a user's name when viewing our PMs (for example: /inbox/conversation?with=4458), the page simply reloads. Shouldn't the user's profile load instead? It takes me to the user's profile if I click on the user's name from /inbox/overview. Thanks!
Suvi Lehtovaara
Helper ⭐️⭐️
June 6, 2019
Hi @mina!

Thanks for the fix 🙂

But, I have the same bug (?) as @LPortalupi described above - when viewing PMs, clicking on a user's name simply reloads the page.
https://yhteiso.elisa.fi/
mina
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
June 12, 2019
Hello @Suvi Lehtovaara and @LPortalupi

Sorry to not reply earlier to you messages, but it has been busy week :)

You are both right, we have noticed the bug with user profile links, and I'm glad to say that this is fixed now.

Thanks.
Senior Software Developer @insided
Suvi Lehtovaara
Helper ⭐️⭐️
June 12, 2019
Thanks for the info @mina! ☺️
https://yhteiso.elisa.fi/
mina
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
June 12, 2019
you are welcome @Suvi Lehtovaara
Senior Software Developer @insided