This morning I went into the classified section for a browse and just happened to notice a new post on the pinned thread at the top regarding how to use the section. I'd not seen it and had a read, finding out the excellent work that Roo has done on enabling a quick button feature for sold items. I hadn't seen this message before, or noticed the button, and it occurred to me that probably most of the forum members won't ever see this message as we tend not to re-read these threads or others containing forum update info. I like to think I try to keep up on what's happening and make the effort to check the majority of threads but even I missed this, so I suspect many other have done too.
So I wondered if perhaps the mods / admins (and ONLY them!) had a facility whereby they could drop a PM into every member's inbox when they make major or significant updates to the forum, containing a link to any relevant posts, so that people are made aware of them? Otherwise I suspect a lot of hard work goes on behind the scenes and we don't know, or there's a change to policy that catches people out (minumum posts before being able to use the classifieds, for example), or just new features. Witness the recent threads all about dark mode, which has been available for ages and yet some people are only just finding out about.
I thought it might be a good way to communicate these changes out to all of us. I suspect 99% of members will notice and read a message in their inbox as opposed to casually browsing every section and noticing the update info.
As emphasised above, and to avoid the horrid situation of spam, I'm only thinking about this mass-mailing approach for things like this, and therefore only site owners, admins and potentially moderators ought to have the power.
So I wondered if perhaps the mods / admins (and ONLY them!) had a facility whereby they could drop a PM into every member's inbox when they make major or significant updates to the forum, containing a link to any relevant posts, so that people are made aware of them? Otherwise I suspect a lot of hard work goes on behind the scenes and we don't know, or there's a change to policy that catches people out (minumum posts before being able to use the classifieds, for example), or just new features. Witness the recent threads all about dark mode, which has been available for ages and yet some people are only just finding out about.
I thought it might be a good way to communicate these changes out to all of us. I suspect 99% of members will notice and read a message in their inbox as opposed to casually browsing every section and noticing the update info.
As emphasised above, and to avoid the horrid situation of spam, I'm only thinking about this mass-mailing approach for things like this, and therefore only site owners, admins and potentially moderators ought to have the power.