Shoutbox

This is the feature that I have really missed for a long time but never seen in Plus!:
Let the nick refresh periodically by itself, without any user interaction.

I'm not talking about annoying others by putting different lines of lyrics every 6 seconds, but what I really want to do is have my local time available through my nick so that my friends abroad can see what time I am at without calculation. I could have a nick like 'musiphil ((!TH):(!TM))', and it would require the nick refresh only once a minute. Isn't this a nice feature to have in this globalized era where you can have many friends spread all over the world?

There used to be a program called MySweetNix! that did this, but it doesn't work anymore, and I'd really love to see this feature included in my favourite Plus!.

It would be nice, but i don't know if its practicle, every minute your contact would get a toast sayin they have changed there name, its been suggested before showing that its a popular idea, but not so practical

Yeah, like Phrive said, it would be annoying if you have the "Contact has changed his/her name" option of Plus! on.
However, I can do it with DPs...
There are only two problems...
1) You will need Windows Messenger runnning if you have windows XP.
2) When your DP is updated, a new dp would be added to your DP list.
You would have to delete the old DPs if you want to keep your DP list clean...

ADP can do this, i was thinking that when i write the last post

www.msgweb.nl  < get it from there
(Requires Wiondows Messenger)

If every minute is too often, well, it could also be every hour.. if I omit the minute part (which would be the same in almost all timezones). By the way, if the pop-up notices for a particular user's changed nick are annoying, can't it be disabled on a per-user basis?

If changing the nick to show the time is not a good idea at all, maybe there could be other ways to do it.. we'll have to think about it more. :)

By the way, what are 'DP' and 'ADP'?

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if the pop-up notices for a particular user's changed nick are annoying, can't it be disabled on a per-user basis?

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Yes.

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Originally posted by musiphil
what are 'DP'

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Display Picture

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Originally posted by musiphil
and 'ADP'

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Advanced Display Picture, an add-on for MSN Messenger.