Welcome back, @gandalf78! Normally that page is shown when the URL is not valid or the message has been deleted. If you’ve bookmarked messages from the previous platform, the URL likely won’t work. But you should be able to find your messages using at College Confidential Forums - Admissions Discussions and Threads. You can also get there by selecting your avatar in the top bar:
(Ignore the red 3.)
Unfortunately the way messages were imported means they all have similar titles:
(Your numbers will vary.)
But you can use search to find old messages:
If you continue to have problems finding your messages, let me know and I’ll see if I can help out.
What is the current procedure/protocol for sending private messages to posters? I wanted to PM a poster on a forum about something that was not related to the forum topic; when I clicked on the poster’s icon – the way that I sent a PM in the good old days – I received a message that stated that the content was private.
I don’t know of this works for users with private profiles (since private profiles are not private to me), but another way is to reply to a comment and when they dialogue box opens, hit the arrow to the left of the username and select new message
