Great Job!

mubeenhussain — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:17:07 -0700

Excellent work, really enjoying using the message centre. Thank you, Odesk team.

For me total of Account

sgalashyn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:30:35 -0700

For me total of Account Alerts & Updates seems to be the best. Thanks.

# of messages

mlevinson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:00:33 -0700

Yes, this is on our short-term to-do list. One question: should it show total messages, or just Account Alerts and Tickets?

Michael

oDesk

feature request

sgalashyn — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:59:28 -0700

It'd be very nice to show unread messages count in MC link, e.g. "Message Center (2)". Thanks.

Good Job!

aalombro — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:45:59 -0700

a nice way to centralize things in one site

Nice feature on oDesk

nihalreddy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:47:07 -0700

Can we disable automatic forwarding of messages to mail id s ?

Archiving messages would be even better.

Message Center Beta Launch, My Favorites Moved

jpittenger — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:13:14 -0700

oDesk is pleased to announce the Beta launch of the oDesk Message Center! This is just one of many features we are launching to improve our communications capabilities, both from us to you and between you and other oDesk users.

What is the Message Center?

The Message Center is an email-like interface that captures messages generated by oDesk or oDesk users within the system. Messages are divided into 3 tabs:

The Account Alerts tab contains messages with direct or indirect financial implications. Examples include hiring actions (hire confirmations, raise rates) as well as payment-related messages (e.g. payment and withdrawal confirmation, payment methods changes)
The Updates tab contains other system messages, with no direct financial implications
The Tickets tab will contain discussions with the oDesk support team - no more fishing through your email to find our response to your support inquiry!

Will I still get oDesk messages via email?

For now, yes -- all messages from oDesk will continue to be sent to your email account. But we are working on Message Center Preferences, which will allow you to configure which message types you receive in your email, your Message Center, both, or not at all. By enabling you to opt out of certain message types, the Message Center will help reduce your email load from oDesk and help you focus only on the highest-priority messages that truly demand your attention.

Will my messages "expire" from the Message Center?

For now, no, but once we have Message Center Preferences, we will likely delete Message Center messages after some period of time. You will always have the option to receive messages via email that you want to make sure you permanently keep.