Hi, I think Conpherence helps onboarding new contributors with profiles different to the rather homogeneous profile predominant in our technical communities (and well represented by the sample of people active in this thread and in the related Phabricator task -- myself included). I invite you to go beyond the 'yet another tool' initial reaction and think of the reasons beneath its election. It's an interesting and rather deep discussion about the usefulness of cozy private spaces for a diverse range of newcomers while they gain the skills and confidence to dive into our public channels. More on this at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392#1264689 On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Alex Monk <krenair(a)gmail.com> wrote: As of today, there is no way, just like there is no (sane) way of preventing unknown people from contacting you via email or IRC. You can point them to the right channels, point them to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Appropriate_uses_of_Conpher… , or simply ignore them. If someone wants to create a task for this request, we can discuss it in more detail there. I expect it to be less simple than it sounds, though. Removing a "Send Message" button from a user profile is simple, but things get more complicated when thinking of the details. On 6 May 2015 at 03:33, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote: In theory they should, but there are some bugs identified upstream, and maybe our own instance needs fine-tuning. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97650 You can set web notifications only -- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/conpherence/ Yes, this is a feature missing. I discussed it with the Phabricator maintainers months ago and they said that it was just legacy (Conpherence being developed before the preview feature). I have created https://secure.phabricator.com/T8088