I was just able to test the DM (direct message) feature here in Locals by phone :)
Been wanting to do this for weeks lol and just now found the energy. 🙃
Here’s what I did.
Because there doesn’t seem to be a way to DM via the app -
👉🏼 I opened a browser window on my phone (I used Chrome, but any browser will do)
👉🏼 I signed in to a test account (different email) that I set up early on which effectively makes me a free Planet Andrea user in that login.
And the rest you can see via the images below.
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Click on the “menu lines” top left
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menu opens and on the very top is a “Message Andrea” button
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sending message is pretty straight forward
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return to main Planet Andrea community via menu -> newsfeed
No idea yet how notifications might work. 🤔
Oop scratch that - got a notification via the app and when I clicked that, it opened up a browser window.
This feature was made with the idea that it be used only for supporters and at a certain level of support. I may well turn that on later, just a heads up.
My thinking is that should this space scale at some point, a Planet Andrea Team account could be the next step and that could become a filter layer for messages.
Meanwhile, for the time being, I have the settings arranged so that any member (free & paid) of Planet Andrea can send a message through whenever some additional direction is needed
(Only caveat here - the direction is likely to be towards the correct transaction for you - this is not an inbox for general chatting - you can make a community post for that 😊)
Anyway, feels like infrastructure progress and offers a way, outside of FB Messenger, to be in touch with anyone who’s important… ie. YOU ❤️
That recent period of FB downtime underscored the need for some more back-up plans.
So this is one solution :)
Click on the image below to see the full pictures.
X out on top right when you’re done ✅
Ha!
I also just turned on Live chat for this post - in case you should have any trouble figuring out how to DM, try a chat message and we’ll get to see how that works too :)