Profile comments seem to have been rather open to abuse and didn't really serve any purpose. A lot of people didn't bother replying to them (or didn't see them as they get lost in a sea of notifications), anyway. They only went to highlight some people didn't know how to use conversations (PMs). Consequently, we have decided to disable them. You will still be able to PM users as before. If you don't know how to start a conversation, read the guide to using the forums. Hopefully, we may be able to get a button on profiles at some stage... but you can PM someone via a post they've made for now.
People used them for PMs way too much. Someone tried to PM me once by using profile posts instead of an actual PM. I nearly made a thread to bring this up but decided not to in the end. A nice, big, and easy-to-read PM button on the profile page would be a cool idea. Is there a way to change the "Conversations" tab's name to "PMs"?
Not easily... as it would mess up every time Xenforo was updated. If people read the guide linked at the top when they joined, they'd know the situation... but that's not gonna happen It may be that a button could be marked accordingly, but I'd have to look into it further.
Is there a way to let us make statuses but stop other people posting on our profiles? The status feature was useful for simple WTB statements, much better than relying solely on a forum thread that not everyone will see.
This isn't facebook. No one cares about statuses. PM, make threads etc etc. It's unnecessary. Most users thought it was PMing others, some even had personal info publicly.
You guys keep making these sweeping general statements like "noone cares", "noone uses that", and it's just not true. Here's a good example: my Twitter bio states that I'm looking for Bungie stuff. I don't often tweet about things I'm looking for (or tweet often at all for that matter), so having that information in my bio is useful for when, by chance, someone decides to look at it. And exactly that happened recently, someone saw my bio and then tweeted at me saying they had something, which turned out to be an incredibly difficult to find game that I would never have even had the opportunity to get my hands on had it not been for my Twitter bio. The same thing goes for the forums here. Noone spends all day looking at the WTB forum, going through all the threads, but people do spend a lot of time in the shoutbox talking to each other. With a simple mouse click, anyone can instantly see exactly what I'm looking for without having to leave the homepage.
This isn't Twitter. On Twitter, it's right there on your profile page. Here, it only showed like the last 5 status posts on the side bar. If 50 people updated their statuses in a day, NOBODY KNEW about 45 of them. Nobody goes to your profile thinking "hmm, I wonder if he wants to buy anything?" Oh, by the way, you last updated your WTB thread with that Marathon 2 you're so desperately trying to get in October 2015 - a year ago! You're allowed to bump once a week, yanno Since then, you've replied to quite a few WTB threads yourself, proving it does work. Conversely, the only person who replied to your status requests for the game was @HEX1GON ...who agrees with me that it's not a good way to post WTBs! Yeah... tried everything except updating your WTB list
