Yes, it's not used much, but a need for a separate inbox is long ago noted.

Your VPN may contain an ad blocker inside. You need to disable it in VPN settings, or whitelist the VPN for thiefguild.

That's interesting. I'll look into that, but not quicker than the next week.

Couldn't open the chat box on VPN? Or couldn't load messages on an opened chat box?

Can't say much without the "long text" part. But feel free to send it over to me via email: admin <at> thiefguild <dot> com

My point is that I cannot promise it will be fixed. I can try, but this is how ad-blocking software works.

For example, your ad-blocking plugin detects the popup chat box as an ad.

And my AdBlock Plus plugin doesn't - I've just noticed I have it enabled on the site all the time.

I will give it a try in the future, but it's not possible to satisfy all ad-blocking plugins simultaneously, due to their non-reliable nature.

The nature of the "popup" chat box is that it looks like an ad, to ad-blocking software. Enabling ads on Thief Guild has nothing to do with "do-not-track" setting.

I can see that "Ublock origin" is an ad-blocker.

We don't have any ads on the site, so you may want to try disabling that one and see if it helps.

However, a properly implemented do-not-track feature does not break any site. For example, in my Firefox I have the enhanced protection enabled. I can confirm on the very bottom of ThiefGuild.com:

" You are not being tracked since your browser is reporting that you do not want to. This is a setting of your browser so you won't be able to opt-in until you disable the 'Do Not Track' feature. "

If this message is shown to you, then you are not being tracked.

Still, the chat function wor...

Yeah the anti-tracking thing makes things on websites not work properly.

@thileger What browser and version you are using? Could you try disabling any ad blocking software on our site? If on Firefox, disable "enhanced protection".

The private messages feature is available in two ways:

1. Click the message icon on the top right corner on the site.
2. Open up someone else's profile and click "Write message"

I have edited the title of this thread: "Private message feature".

In such cases, could you try using the "Other versions" option, below the download link, and download from there?

Most of the TDM FMs don't have download links on this site, and please do not create new thread for each of FM.

The link @thebigh added is an "FM information link" (a link that leads to another page, with more just a download). Check the "FM information links" section on the page, just below the "Download mirrors".

You're right that this kind of links are the most reliable.

Still, it is good to have copies of zip / pk4 files around the net, and link to all of them when possible, for archiving reasons.

That's right.

I can assure you, actions on this website are not anonymous, and every user has their own fingerprint.

Most of the abuse you describe is often done in patterns that are identifiable via automated systems.

Of course, in the end a real human takes action: warn, apply restrictions or ban.

We are continuously improving our observability over malicious patterns.

I don't think downvoting can "steer the narrative".

Lastly, you need to understand that in the Thief Guild Team we think t...

The website is primarily for the majority, so it matters. But the votes should be unavailable for low reputation users.