I have just discovered that Ancestry appear to have changed their private messaging system.

Whereas previously you could exchange messages with other users and save them to folders as you wished, that view appears to have "vanished" to have been replaced by a long list of every message you have ever sent and received, and that includes any messages you may have put on their public message boards.

In a separate box on the left hand side of the page the following message appears:

Your messages are now located in our new message center and can be viewed by recipient.

Your folders and messages from our previous system will be available to download and save until 31 August 2020.

I cannot find anything else on their website that warns us about this change.