There is no way to DM here?

The ability to directly message a user seems to be turned off.

Someone DMed me earlier this year though, so that’s confusing. I just spent a long time trying to figure out how to send a DM and it seems to be impossible.

Can this feature be turned back on?

To DM someone you just click on their username and click “message” try it with me here

I don’t have a message button anywhere. I compared with the UI on another forum that uses this same forum infrastructure and every place that I see the message button there, it is missing here.

When you click on a user’s name do you see this:

You should see that now. Your account was brand new and as such was restricted from DMs

hah! I see it now, thank you!

No problem! Sorry about that, you must have JUST missed the minimum threshold of posts read/posts made to make a DM, I had no idea that was a thing until now