Shoutbox

Hello all,
here comes my great suggestion:

have you ever used "foxmarks" for Firefox (link)? It's an addon which lets you store on a website (theirs, or a web space you configure) all your browser bookmarks. It's simply wonderful in my opinion. I have 2 pc's, and sometimes use the school one, and this way i can always have my bookmarks synchronized (also on my usb stick -> firefox portable). I reinstall firefox after a pc reset (format)? As soon as I install the addon, I have all my bookmarks again. You should really try it.

What I suggest is simply to make a similar feature available (disabled by default for performance maybe). I would configure my webspace, and there, each time I start and close msn, it would check if any emoticon changed, and would synchronize the two (and maybe it would make a check at regulat time lapses). If I reinstall msn&msnplus, I insert the configuration data, and download them all back rapidly.

I think this would really be awesome.

Thx for the attention, and have a nice day.

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Originally posted by thecursedfly
Hello all,
here comes my great suggestion:

have you ever used "foxmarks" for Firefox (link)? It's an addon which lets you store on a website (theirs, or a web space you configure) all your browser bookmarks. It's simply wonderful in my opinion. I have 2 pc's, and sometimes use the school one, and this way i can always have my bookmarks synchronized (also on my usb stick -> firefox portable). I reinstall firefox after a pc reset (format)? As soon as I install the addon, I have all my bookmarks again. You should really try it.

What I suggest is simply to make a similar feature available (disabled by default for performance maybe). I would configure my webspace, and there, each time I start and close msn, it would check if any emoticon changed, and would synchronize the two (and maybe it would make a check at regulat time lapses). If I reinstall msn&msnplus, I insert the configuration data, and download them all back rapidly.

I think this would really be awesome.

Thx for the attention, and have a nice day.

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If this had been a couple of years ago when I used custom emoticons, I'd support this. However, those times have passed.

Frankly, I think this would suit better as a script than as a feature of MP!L, especially considering the biggest userbase is rather young. It's too complicated to be as a feature, as most will simply not a) understand the purpose b) understand how to use it.

Again, I do think this could do as a script. (Perhaps sync more than just emoticons, perhaps chat logs as well? (Now, that's something that would be useful! ))

you see?!? once set up the synchronizing system, you can synchronize whatever you want! emoticons, chat logs, other things, future implemented things... you just have to find a online space (there are plenty for free)

and if it's done well, it's also easy to understand how it works and how to use it for people... try the addon i meantioned in the first post, it's incredibly easy to understand imo..

i use a reasonable number of custom emoticons, just the ones with a meaning and that make me express better... so, i think it's very useful for many people in that way... when i have to reinstall msn and don't find my abitual emoticons it's a pain (+/-)..

just look at how many people ask to the adium team when the custom emoticons thing will work there too..

A general sync script for Plus! would rock, indeed. Could grab anything from sounds to the general settings, I'd use it.

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Originally posted by thecursedfly
you see?!? once set up the synchronizing system, you can synchronize whatever you want! emoticons, chat logs, other things, future implemented things... you just have to find a online space (there are plenty for free)

and if it's done well, it's also easy to understand how it works and how to use it for people... try the addon i meantioned in the first post, it's incredibly easy to understand imo..

i use a reasonable number of custom emoticons, just the ones with a meaning and that make me express better... so, i think it's very useful for many people in that way... when i have to reinstall msn and don't find my abitual emoticons it's a pain (+/-)..

just look at how many people ask to the adium team when the custom emoticons thing will work there too..

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I have used Foxmarks in the past, however, I switched over to del.icio.us to get a fresh start and mixed together with the community and awesome tagging - I'm not going back.

Apart from that, I support youridea. Yet, I don't think this is something for Plus!, but for a script.

Boy, it'd be nice to be able to synchronize scripts too.

Let us logically think of this. I have 10Mm of scripts. Probably 1Mb of Emoticons, (no sounds) but say i have 5Mb of sounds.

16Mb for 3 features of Plus! not including skins and what not. Now
16Mb * 50million users.

Assuming every active user would use the feature...
16Mb * 50,000,000 = 800,000,000Mb...
800,000,000/1024 = 781,250Gb
781,250Gb/1024 = 763Tb

Fuck that not worth it!

that's why I described the fact that foxmarks permit to use a own web space to store the data... (also because I doubt I would trust to store my chat logs on a centralized web space where everybody knows there are millions of chat logs..)

but implementing this feature/script would make possible other options I don't know, probably also commercial ones... up to you, as long as I can store them in another place.. XD

and naturally, I think there are ways to check if some data is allready stored exactly as the new one, so to cut down the redundancy of the sounds or gif images... just thinking a bit technically, dunno how complicated this would become..

anyway that was my idea, and I love it... cannot do more.. :/

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Originally posted by matty
Let us logically think of this. I have 10Mm of scripts. Probably 1Mb of Emoticons, (no sounds) but say i have 5Mb of sounds.

16Mb for 3 features of Plus! not including skins and what not. Now
16Mb * 50million users.

Assuming every active user would use the feature...
16Mb * 50,000,000 = 800,000,000Mb...
800,000,000/1024 = 781,250Gb
781,250Gb/1024 = 763Tb

Fuck that not worth it!

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You just read "sync" and instantly replied about the numbers... This thread is more about a script, or at least the possibility to use your own webspace.

I've seen this feature requested several other times as well. Messenger automatically syncs your Display Picture using their server, so they may or may not support emoticons in the future. My bet would be that synced emoticons and smileys are not likely to happen anytime soon, so a script would be useful.

I have always been looking a script for this. Please TheGuRuSupremacy, we know that a script like this is very simple for you haha just kidding, but it would be soo great if you do it. . And talking about the bandwidth of the website, the backup could be online such as Windows Live SkyDrive (my favorite) or box.net.. Both free!

EDIT: Post 50!