Shoutbox

nikosATH, what you forget is that something like the custom names isn't just a small feature to program.

Messenger Plus! Live is made entirly from scratch. Nothing is copy/pasted from the old code. Plus! Live is not a simple update of code of Plus!3. And in order to get Plus! Live released on time, some things weren't finished yet in favor of other things which got higher priority or were quicker to add. I bet if there currently wasn't a release yet for Plus! Live, because not all features were developped yet, you would complain about it too.

Not only is time a big issue here, there are also technical reasons why something isn't done yet. Patchou certaily did not include the custom names just to pester people. If it was all that easy and quick to program, it sure would have been included.

As Menthix mentionned, Plus! is a relative small freeware, programmed by 1 person. It isn't a big massive suite where hundreds of people are working on with a big company behind it.

This hasn't got anything todo with Patchou being unethical, unthoughtfull or whatever. If there is one programmer who puts his users in the first place it would be Patchou (he never would have released a Plus!Live version if he didn't care).

And Plus! is far, way far, from EOL either just because you don't like the fact that a certain feature isn't implemented yet as you liked it to be.

Yes, the custom names feature is nice, usefull and whatever, but in the end it is just a feature, not a life-saving-highly-important-critical thing. Everybody finds it a pitty that it isn't available yet, but that's how things go when a software like this needs to be programmed from scratch, released on time in public. Choices have to be made because it is all done by 1 person who also has 2 hands, 1 keyboard and 24 hours in a day and millions of impatient users who cry out for a working version for Windows Live Messenger.

It is not like there is no alternative either; you're not forced to use Windows Live Messenger and Plus! Live, you can still use Messenger 7.x and Plus!3.

Have patients patience     (EDIT: lol.... damn, second time I misspelled it, thx for noticing it raceprouk... )