Contact other members

Written by Marco Conti Monday, 06 October 2008 12:22

How to...

This is a short tutorial on how to communicate with other members on the site.

Like in all community websites, I am trying to find a balance between ease of communication among members and privacy. For this reason, members emails are not visible to the community, but there are still ways to easily email any member listed on the site. Thi is how you do it:

1. Log in with your username and password
2. Once you are logged in to the site, click on the link that says "Community"
3. There you'll see a list of members (if you are not logged in the list will be less detailed)
   
4. Click on the picture or the name of the member and you'll go to their profile page.
5. On the profile page there is an email form right under the member picture.
6. Fill the "Subject" and Write your email text
7. Press "send" and you are done.

I didn't think publishing members emails was a good idea since even behind a password those emails could be at risk of being harvested. That's why I choose to use this syste.

However, the site also has a script that prevents emails from being captured when inserted in the text of an article or in the forum, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

I hope you'll find this tutorial easy to follow. As usual, email me if you have any questions.