oh yeah the github key expired on this instance I need to sort it out sorry!
as for DMs, probably not any time soon, I think most folks would use Discord/WhatsApp/Telegram for direct messaging of members within a community, but it's not completely out of the question. Messaging does raise some important privacy concerns though, as without complex end to end encryption built in to the frontend app, administrators/operators would have full access to something that members may perceive as "private" so I'm being careful around that.