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Within site messaging system anonymous for users?

Any off the shelf or SAS systems?

         

Isitso

5:54 am on Feb 1, 2020 (gmt 0)

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On a membership site I'd like members to communicate without knowing the identities of of the members with whom they are communicating.

For example, when A logs in, A's page shows the most recent posts by B, C, and D but doesn't show the authors of those posts (doesn't show that they were posted by B, C and D).

I'd like A to be able to click on one of the posts to open a communication channel to the post's author and for the two to be able to communicate through the channel without either learning the other's identity.

I'm guessing this could work because my system would know the authors of the respective posts and communications and therefore could deliver them to the correct authors even though the communicators know only that they are writing the anonymous author of the post they clicked on to open the channel and they are writing the author of the message that came from a post.

I've been looking around for a few days and have not found an off the shelf or SAS to accomplish this. They all show the author of the post and show the author of the message.

Has anybody seen one?

Alternatively, any suggestion of what language I'd need a coder to know to create such a system?

Is javascript and Jquery a possibility?

lammert

12:56 pm on Feb 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

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If you are using an off the shelf package for your current site (Wordpress, Drupal or whatever), you might first try to find a supported private messaging plugin for that package. Chances are that someone is already providing such functionality which closely enough matches your requirements. It is always better to use something which is already existing and supported than trying to develop something from scratch unless your requirements are really unique.

Kendo

3:43 pm on Feb 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Why not just edit the code so that the username that is shown is common to everyone, like "Member". Then you can choose the best one without limitation.

Isitso

8:06 pm on Feb 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Thanks Kendo. That would solve part of the problem and led to a possible solution to the other part.

[edited by: Isitso at 8:09 pm (utc) on Feb 2, 2020]

Isitso

8:09 pm on Feb 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

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OK. Thanks lammert, I'll keep that in mind.