Function for starting a private chat

Suggestion type: Forum


Suggestion title: Function for starting a private chat


Suggestion description: To have some other way of starting a private chat with a user. Currently, you can't start a private chat with a user without them having typed in the chatbox already. You need to have a name to click on in order to start a private chat. Sometimes I need to message someone, but I can't because they haven't typed. It seems rather irrelevant to private message them or visitor message them when what I need to tell them is private, so it's no good using visitor message, or going through the trouble of making a private message just for one thing that I could have told them so much faster through the chat. I was thinking of some kind of command, such as /pc (name) that would bring up their private chat tab.

Adding on to this, when you are private messaging someone in chatbox, currently you don't see it unless the chat hasn't gone up. So how about, when you log in, it has the message waiting for your response.

So it'd work like this:
http://puu.sh/h1EVB/7b3bfa8e52.png
The person I sent that to would see that when they log in, or simply just have a their name on the top of the chatbox if they've sent something you haven't replied to yet.
Other than that I fully agree with this.

Also, make it available to click on their names when they post or answer in a specific thread.

http://i.imgur.com/k3twWnj.png

http://i.imgur.com/TDfI6Fk.png

Change the userid with the one you want to PM, for example, Dave's page says his ID is 56, replace the element with 56 and click the name which is highlighted in yellow and click it > you'll now PM the user you want.

Result;

http://i.imgur.com/y57usAG.png


That's just temporarily fix if you want to use it, do so but I also think Dave should add what you suggested.

Do I need to go through this pain to type a private message?