Q: What would you and others like to use?

[GarethFerguson]

Hey everyone.

I haven't been available much these days for people who know me, and if you don't know me, then you probably will get to know me sometime. Anyway, I write software for Instant Messenger clients, mostly Yahoo! Messenger, but haven't written anything new in quite awhile though.

I've been really busy since the past 4/5 months with college and everything and I didn't have much time to even go on my own website, never mind writing software. But, I've finally finished college and I have the whole summer coming at me and a lot of spare time and now that I have spare time, I can start to write new software again like I did before.

Some of you might know of my software, some may not, but one application that I did make and gained a lot of popularity over Yahoo! Messenger blogs and forums was YMSG Auto Response, which was an Automated Answering Machine for Yahoo! Messenger, which had a lot of cool features and feedback, you may/ may not of heard of it, but I will be re-writing it soon, with more cool features and better compatibility.

Anyway! The reason I created this topic is to ask users, what kind of application would they think they and others would enjoy?

The reason I'm asking, is because now that I have spare time, I will be writing new software and I would like to hear other people’s ideas and try to develop something unique or new.

So what would you like to use?


Regards
Gareth Ferguson

[Nessa]

One thing I've always wanted and maybe you know if it's possible: is to have status changes reflect within an instant message conversation. Back in the day (several Yahoo! versions ago) this was what would happen: You'd be typing to person M and when they'd change their status, it'd show you the update within the text. I miss this feature. Yes, I know it shows it above the message box but I just wondered if this feature was somehow able to be added back or impossible.

I know you wanted ideas with more content or something really useful but I decided to give this a try.

If I think of anything more productive, I'll let you know.

[Ven0m]

It's possible but you have to be very, very careful when modifying anything within the conversation, or else some nasty crashes can occur.