yes i was thinking about this same thing right now with the exeption that it would give the instant message handles of a particular person much like an IM profile and would be able to click on their IM names or some icon to be able to contact them. on my forums there are alot of people who use multiple Im services and adding all of those buttons to the postbit would look extremely ugly. if you can come up with something like this Neo it would be much appreciated :)

Would be cool if this could work on the online page !

Where members and guests can be im'ed through a click on there screen name or 'guest'.

I see lots of guests trying to do things around like voting on a poll, trying to post something while they can't, so this would give me the oppertunity to prompt them with a nice welcome and tell them if the want to vote or post something that they need to sign up.

I can't wait till this hack would be real!

I asked this a half year ago if this was possible, to get something similar as 'HumanClick' now called 'LivePerson' www.liveperson.com

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bumpin this to.....when are you gonna start it neo?

this seems kinda nice, but i would rather modify the pm popup thingie instead of adding an additional service that takes up server load.

I have a stupid question....Why do you want an IM service on your vBulletin board if:

1.) It will just add more server loads and increase bandwidth?
2.) You can just go to their user profile and get their IM names from there

and 3.) is more of a rhetorical question I guess, but, don't you think if they didn't enter their IM names in their user profile then it means that they either didn't want to put it there, or they just didn't put it there?

Just some food for thought, but it does sound like a neat idea :)

i'm not talkin bout MSN or icq or anything like that! I'm talkin bout Vbulletins OWN im system! and if your worried bout bandwith then dont install it....cause i dont care

Hmmm, have you looked at www.integritymessenger.com they are facilitating message board integration, and are looking for message board companies to work with.

I think a screen shot is on the "About Us" page.

did anyone ever create this hack?

- jeff

Interesting.