Shoutbox

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Dear Cyril,
    I would love to congratulate you for the massive success Messenger Plus! has gained over the past eight years.  I have never expected to see freeware software stay alive for as many years as Messenger Plus!.  Messenger Plus! has gained a massive success since its initial release, and the amount of users is increasing daily.  It is a joy to all of us, the hardcore Messenger users, to see such a powerful extension be developed and be actively worked on to satisfy us.  I would hereby like to thank you for looking forward to what your users desire in an add-on, instead of looking into what you, the developer, would like to see in your own software.  As per your request, you wanted your users to review your software, so here is mine:
    Messenger Plus! is an amazing piece of software that always made the Messenger experience more fun and delightful with the extra, useful features it added to Microsoft’s Instant Messaging application.  Many of the critics have reviewed your software negatively, claiming that it has adware in it, which affects users’ computers with enormous amounts of advertisements.  To an extent, I do agree with their reviews, because if you look at it from an ignorant user’s eye, you would see that they just Hit and Run, meaning, they do not read anything in the setup window.  For all they do is press, “Next,” “Install the sponsor (thank you!),” “I agree,” “Next,” Install,” ignoring the fact that the sponsor is optional, thus end up installing it unwittingly.  I suggest that you display an alert message when they approach the screen that asks whether to install the sponsor or not.  This alert message would make the users aware that they are about to choose whether to install an optional sponsor to support the developer, or just reject to install it.
    I remember in the past that TheSteve had coded something for ‘real-time’ Messenger skinning, meaning, you would apply the skin, then close and re-open the contact list window and your skin will be applied, no need to restart Messenger.  If Messenger Plus! could implement this “feature,” then that would be extremely great. “Chat-Only Names” is another cool feature to be added, many other add-ons have adopted it, and it is time for Messenger Plus! to adopt it as well. Would you also consider extending the Messenger patching options that Messenger Plus! has, please?
    Messenger Plus!, as I see it, is a full-featured software package, I cannot see what else can be added that would make your users more satisfied.  Maybe consider making Messenger Plus! a cross-platform software?  Messenger for Mac is so dull without Messenger Plus!.  I am not a Macintosh user myself, but I am sure that those who use Mac OS would be more than happy to test it.
    In conclusion, Messenger Plus! has gained so much so success over the past eight years, and will hopefully proceed in this manner.  I wish you best of luck with your software, and hopefully awaiting to see an improved version of Messenger Plus!.  Keep up with your worthy efforts.

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Yours faithfully,
James Potter

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