Greg Garrison

Ahh - gotcha. Great. We'll definitely take advantage of that.

I think at some point we're also going to want something like a private inbox for individual, one-to-one messaging. Is anything like that already on the roadmap? I thought your brainstorming above was super helpful and I'd love to get any insight/reaction from the guy who created the package. :)

Off the top of your head, would you re-use channels (adding 2 nullable user_id columns for to and from maybe?) or create a new table for "messages"? There'd also be probably 2 or 3 new route/controller/view just related to an "inbox" and creating messages. Do you see any likely pitfalls?

Thanks, Toby.

Hey Toby - is there any update on this? I see that on the homepage it mentions "public and private discussion" as features. I didn't see any documentation about how the "private" side of that works though. Is there a place I should be looking? Thank you!!

One other idea along some of the same lines... I'm currently evaluating Waterhole to serve as a forum for a school and replace a Facebook group. I'm the developer but all of the real stakeholders aren't technical and I'm remote so I have a limited ability to put Waterhole in front of them for evaluation.

I have no problem with paying $300 for great forum software but it would be helpful in my use case to be able to get a trial license that works for 2 weeks or 30 days. Complete functionality, no restrictions but limited operational time.

I'll spend a lot of time trying to customize everything to what I THINK people want and then do some Zoom sessions, but nothing beats people being able to use the product for themselves and forum software is a great example of a product where one developer can't necessarily predict the reactions of everyone that will be using it.

Thank you!