Shoutbox

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Originally posted by vaccination
Use Plus! custom status', as already stated, these work fine.

On a sidenote, what's wrong with being simply busy or away? People really don't care that you're Be Right Back instead of Away, and frankly if you're only popping downstairs for two minutes, I'm pretty sure your contacts can wait that two minutes for you to get back upstairs and reply to them.

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If you want it that fast, create a hot key for a custom status... like alt+1
And your petition has 17 people yet... are you sure loads of people really care about that? =/ (most of people just look to the icon. the icons were the same. no changes for them)

Yeah, most of my friends use statuses, and I'm sure only a fraction of people who want this have even *seen* the petition, apart from very few people having tried WLM2009 at all yet.

The fact is, many people are still using the statuses brb, phone, and lunch. There was no reason for the MS developers to remove them from that list, and I'm hoping Plus can add them back for me.

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Originally posted by dazjorz
Yeah, most of my friends use statuses, and I'm sure only a fraction of people who want this have even *seen* the petition, apart from very few people having tried WLM2009 at all yet.

The fact is, many people are still using the statuses brb, phone, and lunch. There was no reason for the MS developers to remove them from that list, and I'm hoping Plus can add them back for me.

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You can't say there was no reason.
Work for them? No. Tehy sure have their reasons.

Don't make a storm in a cup of water ¬¬'

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Originally posted by blessedguy
You can't say there was no reason.
Work for them? No. Tehy sure have their reasons.

Don't make a storm in a cup of water ¬¬'

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I'm not. I'm just arguing they have use for some of us, even if they don't for you. No drama from my side.

But there's good news: I just installed the newest Plus beta, and noticed it's still possible to go into brb using the /brb shortcut! It shows as Away here, and as BRB on other clients - this proves two things: BRB is still available in MSNP16, and no api calls have changed regarding this, the client still supports it! That's great news, at least for me So now for actually displaying it as brb in WLM2009....

the 14.0 client doesnt.
the 8.5 still does.
however, soon messenger 8.5 will be blocked, like the 9 beta was ^^

I have version 14, and found out it worked there

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Originally posted by dazjorz
But there's good news: I just installed the newest Plus beta, and noticed it's still possible to go into brb using the /brb shortcut! It shows as Away here, and as BRB on other clients - this proves two things: BRB is still available in MSNP16, and no api calls have changed regarding this, the client still supports it! That's great news, at least for me So now for actually displaying it as brb in WLM2009....

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Originally posted by dazjorz
I have version 14, and found out it worked there

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You said it doesn't work =)

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Originally posted by blessedguy

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Originally posted by dazjorz
I have version 14, and found out it worked there

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You said it doesn't work =)

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I meant: setting brb still works, so the client still knows brb exists and so does the protocol, msnp16. It just displays as Away. The Plus! hacky way of getting the brb status, still works.

No it doesnt work.

8.5 is on a different protocol than WLM9. So it shows the status code that is being sent from your client. WLM9 turns those status codes (BRB, Out To Lunch,etc) into Away.

BRB and Out To Lunch are the SAME thing as Away.
This is a stupid suggestion IMO.

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Originally posted by riahc4
No it doesnt work.

8.5 is on a different protocol than WLM9. So it shows the status code that is being sent from your client. WLM9 turns those status codes (BRB, Out To Lunch,etc) into Away.

BRB and Out To Lunch are the SAME thing as Away.
This is a stupid suggestion IMO.

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But it does work. Apparantly, brb, lunch and phone are still in the protocol. I can set my status to that using Messenger Plus and it still shows, just not with other people who are using WLM9, including myself.

Just because most people don't use these as seperate statuses, it's not directly a stupid suggestion, not for me!