Because Theymos likes to party like it's nineteen-ninety-two-thousand-nine (RIP, Prince).

Because Theymos is releasing the new forum software any day now, which should do away with all of those obsolete apps you mentioned.

Because, because, because.....because of all the wonderful things he does!

And if you don't understand any of that, I don't blame you.  There are a lot of things on this forum that don't make any sense, and still having spaces for AIM/ICQ/MSN account info is one of them.  I doubt you're going to get a better answer unless Theymos himself replies here, which would be like whispering an incantation with dripping candles in hand and hoping a spirit appears.  You've got a valid point, but don't expect anything to change anytime soon.

It's one of those things whereas it'd be good if they were updated, but it's really not that much of a big deal. Like, the links and tags of these platforms are distinguishable from one another anyway.

Telegram: https://t.me/username
Discord: username#1234 | https://discord.com/invite/username
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/username

They're somewhat restricted:

• The "AIM" field is limited to 16 characters only.
• Both "ICQ and MSN" fields would get rid of the invalid links after you click the "change profile" button.
  
  • Before clicking the "change profile" button:
    
    
  • After clicking the "change profile" button:
    
    

It'll show up a different link when you hover the cursor over those fields:

• AIM result:
  
  
• YIM result:
  
  

As a priority? I mean he's had 8 years now... lol

Cmon, these are tiny things and should take almost no time to update.. I understand he can be busy and all, but like cmon???
Anways I'm gonna stop whining about it, new forum software coming soon!! right guys?? 

If they were changed, it might be worth changing them to something that isn't specific, and just lessening the restrictions mentioned above. Since, some users might like to use Whatsapp or they might choose Signal over them. At least, if you reduce the restrictions, and primarily allow more characters to be input, the user themselves could determine the platform. Obviously, we have personal text, and signatures that could be used for this in the mean time, but since most users are involved one way or another in a signature campaign, it would probably be beneficial to allow less restrictive options on the profile fields.

**this

this is a much better idea than what I had.
There's so many platforms and just moving from restrictions to more restrictions is a stupid idea. What we need is a space to put our username for our favourite social media.

Yeah, I think if we were to change anything, it would probably be better to make it less restrictive since in the future Whatsapp might not be viable anymore or any other software. Plus, theymos' has previously stated its a fairly lengthy process to do, so in that case its probably better to do a complete rework of it, and make sure that if things need to change in the future, they can.


Yeah, I think this is something that a lot of people assume would be just changing a few text's around, but from experience if you've ever worked on a large project or for a organization doing coding work or even reviewed code, then it can get messy very quickly, and can end up breaking a lot more than you realized. SMF being old, and not many people contributing to it, probably contributed to it being a little messy, and not designed well.

I'm not using that as a criticism necessarily, because even some very reputable, and bigger companies have an absolute mess of code. I've seen companies get contractors in, the contractors do the work needed, then the company finds out that the contractors changed x, which breaks y which results in the company either getting another contractor in to fix the previous contractors work or committing internal employees to it.

I feel like most companies these days to patch work code rather than thinking about the future, and designing their systems with scalability in mind.