Messages completely sucks - manage deletion?

[Matt Bacon]

I'm sorry, but not being able to to select multiple "Conversations" to delete is absolutely rubbish. Your only options are:

1) scroll through older messages one conversation at a time, and "leave" it for each one (when you do, of course, the list defaults back to the most recent messages, so if you're trying to remove the oldest conversations, you have to go through multiple reloads of "next messages" to go back to the bottom again).

2) "Empty" the whole conversations list, which removes every message.

On the other forum I frequent that uses IPBoard, you get a full page list of all the separate personal message threads, with a check box at the right of each one. Check one or multiple boxes, and there's an action button with "delete", "mark read" "mark unread" etc.

Whoever thought that making IPBoard work more like Facebook was a good idea should be drummed out of usability school...

bestest,

M.