Add a way to leave messages on profile or mod pages.

[politas]

Implement a way to contact mod authors when there is no forum link. The automated CKAN submissions say "Please direct questions about this pull request to " with a link to the author's Spacedock profile page, but there's no way to actually contact the author from their profile page.

If there is no forum or other link by which an author of a mod can be contacted, there should be some way to leave a message for them, either on the mod page or their profile page. Obviously, this should only be available to logged-in users, and some anti-spam mechanism would be needed.

[inigmatus]

kerbalx.com has something like this. i think it's a great idea.

[godarklight]

I suggest redirecting it straight to their email address - I will not check messages on spacedock as a mod author and I don't think many others will either ;)

[FrikFry]

I'd agree with @godarklight - adding some sort of contact form that sends an email to the modder's email address is probably the best form of contact, as well as fairly easy to implement.

[HebaruSan]

Similar to #113 but for a different recipient and purpose.

[HebaruSan]

In the motivating use case (and probably most others) the goal is a two-way exchange to answer questions. So if we send an email to a user's address, how do they reply back to the originating user? The recipient would need to receive more than just a notification from SpaceDock that someone asked a question.

We could set Reply-To to the sender's email address so the recipient can reply, but what if they prefer their own email address to remain private? And would the original sender necessarily want their address shared?

Or we could include a link to the sender's profile page in the email, so the recipient could use the same message sending feature to reply. That way messages could flow both ways while keeping the email addresses private. That sounds a little clunky, so maybe we could make a special route that jumps you to the message composition page directly.

[HebaruSan]

Discussed this with some mod authors, and they're concerned about the potential for abuse/spam. The suggestion was made that the ability to receive emails should be opt-in, which would mostly defeat the purpose of doing this, since nobody would know to enable it.