hah yeah none of my major releases will be wlm 9 compatible and its not just for the RLE reason, its due to the fact that wlm 9 isn't meant to be widespread and there is a large amount of people who are using it that really shouldn't be. But yeah the main issue is RLE, can't decrypt them just yet so it makes it a major pain.
Anyway yes wlm 9.0 skinning has gotten a lot harder, I have looked at the new tags and am familiar with some of the oddities. I know for a fact that a lot of my restructured code will have to be written from scratch and adapted to fit 9.0.
So yeah I am not willing to do that on something the will inevitably be updated and forcing me to rewrite the skin again
Hopefully people will realize soon enough that if they do want to use skins they will have to choose between using a leaked version of messenger...... or a perfectly stable version that the majority of skinners make skins for. Leave the beta's for the beta testers, as when you use beta's you sacrifice compatibility with skins and scripts.
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