How bout doin this for MSN as well? or is that not possible?

I'm going to look into checking the online status of all the messengers (Yahoo!, MSN, ans ICQ). Once I get that all together, I'll release it in a final hack. I've seen one for ICQ and a promising one for MSN, but I haven't tested it.

Sometimes this makes it take longer to load the page.

That's the only part about it I don't like.

This hack doesn't have to be a code hack, look at the Instant Messaging Templates -> im_aim template. I used the example images AdmiralB provided.Yahoo's online indicator unfortunetly is a bit smaller than AIM's, so I won't be using it because it won't match the size of the other chat protocol indicators. But, that too is in the Instant Messaging Templates -> im_yahoo template:The "t" argument in the URL to Yahoo can be changed from 1 to 3 to get a different indicator.

Still looking into MSN.

might want to check this out. might be able to some how incorporate this.

http://www.onlinestatus.org/hosting.html

Does this slow down the loading of showthread?

This is neat, but our group primarily uses YIM (Yahoo Instant Messenger) if you could create one of those now, that would be awesome!

I am trying to add a section to each page of my site with a drop down list containing info on admins and mods - www.hostcompanies.com/forums/profilepages.htm

I would like to add the online / offline status for all message icons to all these profile pages.

I did try using the code your presented for aim but i got an error message - http://www.hostcompanies.com/forums/...inistrator.htm

Any help appreciated.

Anyone got small images for Yahoo messenger?

You can find images to use here - http://www.onlinestatus.org/forum/usage.php just click on the different osi hosts. Although i have been advised not to use their service since it is hosted by third party individuals and the servers can often go offline or people just suddenly close the servers.