They seem to have been monkeying around with the page coding lately. Maybe they've been busy in recent days with code switching and they're not done? Or they're taking away the messaging feature?

When I click on names I've messaged with before, their personal pages don't show a message link. But when I click on my own, prior messages (and the ability to "reply") are still visible and apparently usable for that purpose.

I was just able to send a message using gardenweb you might want to check the URL to see if it is gardenweb or houzz.

I'm having the same problem. I can't message some people that I've PMed before. Only one person am I still able to.

Very annoying!

I sent a message yesterday and the message page has changed. They have a new message center. Since my previous person and I have messaged in the past, I went to the "old inbox" option and sent the message. This poster doesn't have Message enabled on their account, but I do, so I was contacted previously.

In order to message a member, they must have Message enabled, and it will be seen on their page when you click their name.

I've read a couple of posters have received notice that the message system is changing and their old messages have disappeared. I still have a list of old messages sent and received, so I could message someone by using an older message. I checked about a dozen members' pages yesterday and found none with the 'Message Me' button.

But houzz is on it (hahaha, lolol, not really, since this is the reply I received after contacting them about the issue).

One would hope that they would change their canned answer since the private messaging system is being revamped.

I've always had Message enabled on my profile. Is it still there? We can't see our own. :-)

Jasdip, no it is not there. Mine is enabled also, has been for years, but I bet it is not available either.

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I've read a couple of posters have received notice that the message system is changing and their old messages have disappeared. I still have a list of old messages sent and received, so I could message someone by using an older message. I checked about a dozen members' pages yesterday and found none with the 'Message Me' button.

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Right the "message tab" they refer to in the screen shot is non existent. After posting this, I got a message from someone I've messaged with in the past. I saw it up there under the Bell icon. When I clicked on it, I was able to read her message and see "old inbox." My old messages are there. But I can't get into it unless somebody messages me. I know I can get around that but it's confusing now. Nobody has "messaging" activated at the moment and there's no way to activate.

I sent a few messages to past correspondents, and received one back, so far. The format for my message page hasn't changed. I can still access the old messages, sent or received.

I have messaging so that it sends me an email. Yesterday I sent someone a message to see if I could still do it. I chose an old message to reply to rather than start a new one. The person received it. The reply showed up in the list of notifications. Interestingly I have gardenweb bookmarked and that was what I am in. When I clicked on the message to read it I had to sign in to Houzz. In the past I could seamlessly go from gardenweb to houzz without signing in. Supposition and wild guesses on my part but by separating the two whenever that happened it may be preparation for more changes. Would be nice if they sold gardenweb so that it could continue without the selling on Houzz.

Not certain how Houzz started but several times I have been told that Houzz was only for professionals and if that is the case good riddance.

I always use the gw url, but I noticed some time ago that when I access any of the sub-categories on my member page, it switched to houzz url. Then recently (but longer than yesterday) I had to start signing in again to access them. My computer did a big update, so I thought that might have something to do with it.