I've got a contact who I've renamed to Boz. This has normally worked, but today he put his display name thing as "*SOMESTUFF* {other stuff}". (other stuff is in curly braces) This should just display as "Boz", but instead it displayed as "Boz (other stuff)". Is this a bug, or an intended feature?

When you are using a custom status, Plus! actually adds that to your display name. If you go away, and choose Fishing as your custom status, Plus! will change your status to Away and make your display name "Old display name {Fishing}".

To people who have Plus!, the {Fishing} is shown as (Fishing) instead of Away, because their Plus! recognises it as being a custom status. Someone who does not have Plus! installed will see "Old display name {Fishing} (Away)".

Your Plus! interpretes the text between {} as a custom status, which it very well might be.

Thanks