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What does Letter (Original Name for Messages) mean?
A Letter is the original name for a Message on JoinTheSwing — a consent-gated private introduction. The sender must send a Message request; the recipient accepts or declines before any conversation opens — the architectural opposite of unsolicited DMs.
Letters was the original name for Messages — one of JoinTheSwing's most deliberate product decisions. On most social and dating platforms, any user can send a message to any other user at any time. The result is inbox fatigue, unsolicited content, and the gradual erosion of the feeling that messages mean something. Messages reverse this: every conversation begins with a request, and no content is delivered until the recipient consciously accepts.
The original name signaled the intent: considered, deliberate, worth the recipient's attention and worth the sender's effort to compose. The surface is now simply called Messages, and the architecture still enforces that intent: request → review → accept or decline → conversation begins.
Messages can include voice notes, media attachments, and reactions. Conversations can be archived, blocked, or reported. Every interaction leaves a support record — a durable record available to a trust team if something goes wrong. This is the full-stack implementation of consent in a messaging context.
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