Unless things have changed, users should be able to message anybody. Are you sure you’re not using a plugin such as BuddyPress Private Messages for Friends Only?

It’s likely the WP nonce is invalid. Usually you get a message such as “Are you really sure you want to do this?” so I can understand why the blank page looks weird.

Have you modified the form at all? Perhaps you could paste the form’s markup into pastebin? I’ll take a look to see if I can see anything wrong

Hopefully this helps.

I brought the loading function back in one of the theme am building by using just css.

1, I added ajax spinner

2, I changed the button background while loading to make it look disabled.

below is an example for the post button:

#buddypress #whats-new-form a.loading,
#buddypress #whats-new-form input.loading…[Read more]

Regarding your problem, I came across the issue a few months back when 1.9 was rolled out. You need to capture the item’s ID when adding a notification. See here for some related…[Read more]

Did you try:
bp_get_the_notification_item_id()
from
buddypressbp-notificationsbp-notifications-template.php

I’m 99% sure you can. I do believe it’s store in secondary_item_id.

I think you can access it by doing something like this:

$notifications = BP_Notifications_Notification::get( array(
'id' => $notification_id,
'user_id' => $user_id
) );

// I assume there will only be one result but i'll do a loop anyway
if (…[Read more]

I shall take it upon myself to revitalize posting actually useful things.

@godavid33 great! 🙂