How to delete Direct Messages?

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

I want to clean up my collection of Direct Messages, but cannot see a way to delete them. Can they even be deleted?

 

[pware]

Interesting question. I also have a collection of Direct Messages going way back!

A little investigation revealed a successful method:-

1. From the Direct Messages main screen select a message thread to be deleted
2. At the top right of the first message in the chain will be a selection of buttons, click the one marked Leave
3. You will be given two option in a popup window, one to still accept new messages in this soon to empty chain and another to ignore all new messages. Select an option.
4. Click the Leave button in the popup window
5. Repeat as required for each message chain.

I am cleaning them out now!

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Thank you Sensei. Does it work if multiple messages are selected?

 

[pware]

Does it work if multiple messages are selected?

Apparently not.

It took me quite while to delete all of mine and I noticed that those chains that existed before the new forum interface appeared were the hardest to delete - each message in those old chains appeared as a separate chain and had to be deleted individually.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

So you need to actually open a thread, not just select it, before you can see the Leave button. This is the bit I wasn't understanding. Quite counter-intuitive and clunky.

And you can't multi-tag and delete a batch. This is a considerable step backwards from when they were called Private Messages.

 

[pcas1986]

There is a button at the top right of the screen called Selected. If you click that, some options appear at the bottom left where you can select all on the current page and then choose the leave action to clear them out. Took me a while to notice the bottom left option as it was usually hidden if not in full screen. That's using Chrome.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Ah! There it is. My god, you have the eyes of an eagle.

What terrible page design.

 

[pcas1986]

My eyes still can't find how to change the words/legend under my user id.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

My eyes still can't find how to change the words/legend under my user id.

Mine can't either. It's a challenge for pware.

 

[pware]

My eyes still can't find how to change the words/legend under my user id.

Mine can't either. It's a challenge for pware.

Alas, that is a feature that has, so far at least, defeated me as well.

 

[pcas1986]

Alas, that is a feature that has, so far at least, defeated me as well.

At least you have "Trainz Veteran" and Deane has his user KUID id. Mine is ridiculous and probably slightly rude.

 

[wreeder]

Those might be automatically assigned in this forum software unless you had already changed it. Mine carried over from the old software.

 

[pcas1986]

Maybe my old tag got lost in the transfer. Like a few others I was locked out of some sub forums for a while.

Anyway, these days I spend most of my time in the Trainz Discord server.

 

[wreeder]

Maybe the ability to edit the tagline is connected to the ability to edit the picture?

 

[pcas1986]

I looked at the HTML code for the page and my tag is embedded as plain text in the code. So, I'm guessing the page is dynamically created from some dataset associated with me.