This idea is a simple one - when on someone else's member page, you can send a friend request. They will receive a notification like this:
PERSON has sent a friend request
[accept] [decline]
Clicking accept allows you to become friends. Clicking decline just ignores it. Friends can send private messages to each other.
Hi Farraz and Rafi,
Just telling my opinion about this feature for future implementation . I have a Sell and Buy database /Page in my website where people can post their old things to sell and others can see it and contact the guy who posted it using email or phone number.
I am planning to replace this with the private messaging (with wix code Chat API when it releases)to prevent the use of email and phone numbers and to keep the user completely inside the wix ecosystem while they do stuffs on my website.
But the feature Farraz told will make this process little difficult as the buyer need to send a friend request first and then wait for the seller to accept it and then start messaging.
So there are two possibilities to solve this:
Messages from non friends of a user lands in another area of private messaging window like facebook
Or we can message anyone without any issue and maybe the receiver can block or unblock the sender if required.
Friend request is also a good feature but it would be nice if we have flexibility in this... Thanks
Hi Farraz, currently we are working on release private messaging, after that - this idea can be nice and I added it to our list.