Messaging

Private conversations, built into your community

One-to-one and group threads that carry photos, video, audio and files, without sending anybody to another app. You decide who is allowed to start one.

A BuddyBoss private message thread with an attachment and reply box

— Inbox

An inbox that stays manageable

Filter to unread or archived, search the whole history, and start a new thread from the same screen. Unread conversations stand out without anybody having to hunt.

The messages inbox filtered by All Unread and Archive
The message input box with camera video attachment and GIF buttons

— Photos, Videos & GIFs

Send more than text

Photos, video, GIFs and emoji sit in the message box next to the formatting buttons. Video plays in the thread, so nobody downloads a clip to watch it.

— Audio, Files & Code

Audio plays, code previews, files explain themselves

An audio file plays where it was sent. A code file previews with line numbers. Everything else shows its name, type and size before anybody commits to a download.

An audio attachment playing in a thread beside a code file preview
The messages popup dropping from the navbar icon one row per thread

— Messages Popup

Read a message without leaving the page

The message icon in the header drops open a list of recent threads, filtered to all or unread. Members answer and carry on with whatever they were doing.

— Hide From Notifications

Keep message alerts out of the notification list

Messages stop crowding the notification list and its unread count. They still arrive by email, web and app, and still show as unread in the inbox itself.

The setting that keeps message alerts out of the notification list

— Delay Email Notifications

Hold the email until a message stays unread

Email waits a while before it sends. Members reading on your site never get one, and several unread messages in the same thread arrive as a single email instead of five.

The delay email notifications setting and its time window

— About Panel

Who you are talking to, beside the conversation

A sidebar carries the other person’s profile, and tabs through everyone in the thread, the media shared and the files sent. On a group thread it lists the room.

The About sidebar with Participants Media and Files tabs

— Message Access

Who can message whom

Let a profile type message everyone, or name exactly which types it can reach. Students can contact coaches without the whole community reaching the coaches back.

Per profile type message access each set to All or Specific

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Member Profiles

Every member gets a page worth visiting, so you know who you are messaging.

Notifications

How a message reaches somebody who has closed the tab, on the channel they chose.

Media Uploading

Photos, video, audio and files, in a private thread as much as in the feed.