Microsoft to turn off Windows Messenger on 15 March
« on January 13th, 2013, 04:43 AM »
Did you check out that fun part of the Custom Profile Fields? Aside from the fact I moved it, I gutted the original fixed fields in SMF and made them all into templates in the CPF, meaning that you can add whichever ones you want, easily, with sane presets on everything.
Removing the MSN entry is basically removing a few lines of code and the image, adding the Skype one is marginally more effort since I need to know what the format should be for Skype items (is it just an email address?)
So what's the allowed format for that username? If I can find that out, plus a place where it should link to, I can add Skype and drop MSN with minimal effort.
Your Skype Name is your unique username for Skype. It must be between 6-32 characters, start with a letter and contain only letters and numbers (no spaces or special characters).
Also, just thought about this... what if people use it to indicate their email in case people want to contact them? Would that not necessarily be a valid reason to leave it?
Just instead direct it to point to a mailto link?
Mmm...correction: "myskyp.infoe" is an external site to skype.com, so I am using "skype:{profilename}?userinfo", that will open fin in Skype if you are logged in.