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Has there been a change in the forum features or am I mistaken that there was a way to PM directly from the message screen?
Confused, sometimes...
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At the bottom of each post, there are 3 icons: Profile, PM and Email. PM and Email may be turned off by
the individual user in User Control Panel>Board Preferences>Edit Global Settings and clicking no to those
2 options. So if the user is allowing others to PM them, then the icon will show up in the post area and
anyone can send them a PM directly. If done this way, a copy of the post is included in the body of the
PM and the title will be re:(name of thread).

As far as I remember, this option has been there forever and a day...

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If you're in your message center look to the left of the page above the Inbox link and you'll see "Compose message". I can't say if that's different than how it used to be since I don't really use that feature.
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"At the bottom of each post, there are 3 icons: Profile, PM and Email"

Nope, these icons are missing in every post I look at!
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Go to User Control Panel -> Board Preferences and select British English. The theme they're using doesn't have a full image pack for both versions of English. The links are there but invisible, you can confirm this by viewing the page source code.
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Yep, I've been using the British English version since the upgrade because of all the things missing
from the Americanized version.

Also, when you go into the Compose Message area of the PM, you can search for people by clicking
on [ Find a Member ] underneath the Usernames: box. The search is pretty self-explanatory.

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Shazaaam! .... It's fixed! I've no clue how, or why that got changed.
Many thanks for all the help.
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