We have been pushing really hard here at Green Man Gaming HQ to get our new community platform up and running. In this letter from the engine room we will be talking about private messaging. Private messaging is a brand new addition to our community which will allow you to send private messages to a community member or a group.
We have been working on private messaging for over the last two weeks and wanted to use Muut which is the same technology we use behind the buzz feed. We specifically used Muut IO which gives us more control over the page layout as opposed to Muut Standard which was used to create the Buzz feed.
Muut standard works by injecting standard HTML into the page. We then use DOM and Javascript to move those HTML elements around to get the look and feel that we were after. With Muut IO we have a javascript API which means we write our HTML and then use the Javascript API’s to populate the data.
The initial version of this page isn’t going to be our final design. Currently it’s a little less Jazzy than we would like but it is a good framework to start from. In the screenshot below you can see a bell icon in the header (it’s in the top right, next to the cart), This bell shows the number of message notifications you currently have.
We here at Green Man Gaming HQ are really looking forward to you guys using the community outside of beta.