Shoutbox

Checks in the client can be usefull:
- when the server check is disabled for whatever reason (maintenance, fall-out)
- when something is connected directly to the client. Some things in Messenger already have the ability to go straight to the user and not via the servers. It is quite possible that this will be used more in the future and/or for other things than file transfers etc...

I strongly agree with TB on this matter...
I also agree with the fact that people should be informed in detail what such tools do exactly. Even if not all people will understand it, or understand the consequences, some will. And with tools like this it is absolutely vital that it is understood what it exactly does and what the consequences might be.

Although, I also agree with the point that TheGuruSupremacy made that TB should have considered the consequences when he made the boosting of characters in messages.

IIRC I remember some discussions between Patchou and TB of why some things weren't included in Plus! while they were perfectly possible (eg: Plus! only boost the amount of characters to something far lower than what StuffPlug does, probably for these reasons).

Anyways, bottom line and most important thing here is, I think, that the user should be well informed in great detail of what such things do.

(and that TB's implementatoin in StuffPlug 3 of this fix is far better)