There are occasions where I'd like to reach out to another member, outside of the photo comments. Is there some way to do that within the site? You could send a message through the site, and it would appear as an email to them. Perhaps as an "opt-in" feature, at least?
Perhaps most useful would be the ability to provide contact information to another user without having to publish it. Two other recent examples were when someone asked how I did a technique, and when someone asked where an image was taken.
I've used this at sites I frequented in the past, and have a couple of friendships that evolved out of those conversations.
I achieved this on one site by doing a normal post, which would then be delivered as a notification email, and immediately removing the post from the site
Not everyone gets notification emails though so that isn't a reliable option. I only get notifications through the website and therefore if someone commented, then deleted it, I'd never see what it said. That's a good way if you know the recipient definitely receives email notifications, but could fail if not!
i was going to make the same suggestion as @kali66 ... the other thing you may want to think about is putting extra spaces in an email address so it can still be read by a human, but not scooped up by some web crawler... if you know what i mean...
I think you can also choose to not publish images publicly but can choose who can see one so you could use that to talk privately? I haven't done this but it could work maybe?
That is an excellent suggestion from KoalaGardens. You could post a photo in an extra album and make it available only to the person you want to contact on the privacy settings and give them an email address. I have exchanged emails with a few people on here and we have immediately deleted the post afterwards.
@koalagardens I think that is the best method bar publishing your email. You can then restrict it to approved friends. So only people you approve can see it. @lsquared
@arnica17 yes, but not everyone wants them so not everyone has that setting ticked - that was what I was saying! Unless you know for sure the person does receive email notifications, you can't rely on the that method.
I have exchanged emails by putting the exchange in an OLD photo, way back where it would not likely be noticed. The notification still goes through to them.
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Not everyone gets notification emails though so that isn't a reliable option. I only get notifications through the website and therefore if someone commented, then deleted it, I'd never see what it said. That's a good way if you know the recipient definitely receives email notifications, but could fail if not!
Thanks all!