...and in the mean time profile-only contacts are also converted to full 'friends', instead of limited friends. Which again, results in possible privacy issues. Although you first have to confirm this move on your profile.
[rant start] But what is actually happening behind the scenes and what the consequences might be of this move isn't well known ('hidden' behind some links and not very clear blahblah, which a lot of people would never read anyways since we all know how much people click on small 'read more' or 'help' links before actually pressing on a big button saying "click here now" (so to speak)) [/rant]
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Originally posted by Chris4
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Originally posted by Chrissy
You can't use the compact mode in full screen..
Why would you want to maximise a list of vertical contacts?
Well, they do now spread horizontally if you expand the width of the window rather than maximise. Just do that if you really want it bigger.
Which is exactly the main thing I don't like about the new contact list layout. There is no way to tell Messenger when to split in multiple columns, or how many columns maximum to use. The main problem is that it switches way to soon to multiple columns, especially considering wide screens.
This is an issue I already pointed out in februari; not everybody has short names or very short PSM's. There really should be a setting where you can decide how many (at max) columns you want imho. Such a setting is a win-win situation. People would still be able to make the layout they want (eg: 1 column), and MS can still show-off with its 'intelligent' and automated reordening of the list if you have it set to two or more.
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