Shoutbox

Hello,

I'm a happy user of Messenger Plus! Live. From markup support to plug-ins, and even the Quick Text, this extension makes Live Messenger the best IM program ever. I'm writing this because I have a concern for one feature that I like the most from Messenger Plus! Live, the Emoticon Sounds.

From what I learned, these custom sounds are stored in an online database. There are probably millions of these sounds accumulated from the community in the database now. I noticed a lot of times, I'm having difficulties sending custom emoticon sounds and get error message telling me to "try again later". I also noticed these past several months, a routine maintenance or database refresh/cache clearing or something like that takes place on midnight Eastern Standard Time for over 2 hours every night.

It's somewhat an inconvenience for me since that time is usually the most active time when my "Groups" is most active and we aren't able to use emoticon sounds. What I'm proposing is would it be possible if the maintenance be scheduled some other time? Maybe during work hour in the morning.

And since Live Messenger Wave 4 beta is among us, I want to suggest something crazy. Is it possible to add option so that I can host my own custom Emoticon Sounds on my own web hosting server or locally? I noticed the export file of my whole library of custom sounds aren't that big. This method probably can prevent stress on the database as well.

Well that's all I want to say about this. Thanks!

Edit: Oops, I probably should have posted this at the General Talk forum. Please move thread as you see fit.