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We have a new feature for registered LGF users today: you can now address private comments to specific people! You can address the private message to just one person, or a list of people, and only the people in your recipient list will be able to read it.

To address a private message, you just put the name of the recipient inside the square brackets right after the word “private,” like this (replace the curly braces with square brackets):

{private Charles}Here’s a private message to myself!{/private}

To address it to more than one person, add each username separated by the ‘|’ character, like this:

{private Charles|ObserverArt|calochortus|darthstar}Here’s a private message to myself and several others!{/private}

Note that you have to use the actual username, not the display name. You can see the actual username by looking at a user’s profile. Also, usernames are not case-sensitive, so you don’t need to match the username’s capitalization.

Private messages show up in a comment as a button; if you’re one of the recipients, the button will be light green; otherwise it’s light red, and clicking it will display a brief error message.

And of course, you can read your own private messages.