If you have mass messaged your members in the past, with the old messaging system, your messages would have gone out to the members, but unless your members replied, your messages only showed up in each member's mailbox but not your own.
With this new messages plugin, all those mass messages you sent out in the past now show up in your inbox as a "conversation". So you now have hundreds, even thousands of "conversations" in your inbox, thus loading down your inbox.
If you just let it load (it will take a long time), they should eventually show up. And unfortunately, this new messaging plugin does not have a bulk delete feature, so you now have to delete those thousands of messages one by one. This will take weeks, if not months to do. Because after you have deleted one, it will take up to or over 1 minute for the next message to load, so that you can delete it.
I ask the developers to PLEASE update this plugin to be able to bulk delete messages!
This is MORE than enough to handle the oxwall site. Yet after the 1.7 update, with the messages plugin activated, the site is slow, and sometimes crashes the browser, etc.
Disable the messages plugin, and the site works wonderfully.
Seems like most of the people who have updated to 1.7 are having the same issues.
What is Oxwall doing about it? Haven't heard from them on this issue for days.
The messages plugin is trying to load every sent message a user has ever sent since the birth of their account. This is the problem. Especially with admins who have mass-messaged over 1000 members 5 or 10 times in the past. EVERY sent message is now showing up in my inbox (after a nice loooooooong wait)
The plugin lacks the basics that pretty much any mailbox on the face of the planet and in the universe itself has;
Bulk delete, and the ability to make paragraphs.
Looking back on the previous mailbox, which operated like a mailbox, with all the basic features, I can't help but wonder who tested this new version and thought it was as good as or better than the previous?
It blows my mind. It is so bare-bones, ill-conceived, and ignorantly approved for release. You can only delete one message at a time, and when you write a lengthy message with block paragraphs, when you send it, all formatting is removed and it's sent as one big huge paragraph.
They took a decent, functional messaging/mailbox plugin, and took 10 steps backwards and release this one.
The plugin is called "Messages"
But it would be more appropriate to just call it "Mess".