When I find out who ‘invented’ the nudge and the winks in Messenger 7.0, I’ll kill him / her.
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Thank you for posting this! I started to think I was the only one with those kind of thoughts. Implementations of thoughts like that deserve no mercy!
I am there along side you, I’ll happily help ;)
This is why I don’t use Messenger 7 ;-)
I’ll stick with simple Windows Messenger, thankyou very much :-)
It’s still only for the PC right?
Anyway, with the excellent OS X MSN skin for 7.0,
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=22498
You can disable the damn nudges!
What Isaack said. All nudges and winks are easily disabled, so you don’t get caught off guard at work w/ some dumbass sending you a full screen wink.
While a lot of ppl will hate them, I can guarantee you that most will love them and keep sending the damn things to each other non-stop.
I do sort of fancy the handwriting feature, just wish it was available on OS X version of MSN Messenger, worked with Ink and someone donated a tablet for me ;)
On Yahoo Messenger they are called “buzz” and they can be disabled.
I’ll join you gladly. Turn them off in the options, otherwise you will forever get the person who feels like telling the world they just found this “new” version of MSN Messenger by trying winks and nudges on you. Hilarious I’m sure…
I miss out on all these wierd and wonderful (and crap) additions to each new release of MSN because I use Trillian. I can’t say I miss using Messenger… it used up an awful lot of screen real estate. All I want to do is send instant messages, and maybe transfer files. None of this trivial junk.
Hey,
first- great blog! Always interesting. Second -you can disable nudges. I realise it’s a pain – i think it’s pretty much summed up as a gimmic designed to make MSN 7 look like it’s got a whole bunch of new features. Which, of course, it does. ;)
Yes all, I realize that I can disable them. But that’s beside the point that the person should be strung up :)
Yes, drawn and quatered, and then killed until he was dead. Satan and Saddam would then go ape-shit on his corn-hole screaming “WINK THIS! WINK THIS” while his flesh was seared in the fires of the underworld.
And that ought only to be the beginning…
… Damn, some pent up anger there. Yikes.
You can still get back to MSN 6, can’t you? That’s what I did :-)
I haven’t experienced winks or nudges in person, but I know how they feel, and I must wholeheartedly go with Bjorn on this one.
Gotta love those damn features! Haha, come one people it’s Microsoft!
I went over to skype – MSN is annoying – and Trillain does not work well. Plus I like skypes ability to host a voice communication of four people! Can come in handy!
Everyone switchto skype! http://www.skype.com/
Brendan, you did what I’ve been considering for a while. Skype is better in every single regard but audience. It’s clean and cuts through any firewall. Runs on all major OS too.
Only thing keeping me back is that I know so many people on MSN. Kinda like when I made the switch, begrudgingly, from ICQ to Messenger.
I’ve now resigned to running Skype as well, hoping more people catch on to it, while we sit out the nudges and winks and animated adds in MSN.
You are an angry man. Calm down man.
Personally I use Gaim, which is compatible with MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, IRC, Jabber, and perhaps more too – I can’t remember. I’m running Debian so the official MSN client isn’t even an option for me, but I prefer Gaim anyway. For those who are interested, there’s a Windows port available too. You can also run it under OSX but I believe that isn’t quite so straightforward (but possible nonetheless).
Sure, they are annoying.
But MSN Messenger is now so commercial, it’s just another way to sell their shit to the users.
Die a fuckin painful death MSNM. I just hope the assasin is OS.
Regards.
Agreed. I hate all of the new functions in MSN 7.0. I think that they should hide that crap for Messenger Plus! instead of putting it in the original version.
Whats up with the handwriting stuff? Grrrrr
i think its really cool!! msn comes up with good ideas!
i think ur just stupid 4 saying u want to kill the person who came up with this idea!
Lol, get the unlimited nudge patch from mess.be :)
MSN!?!? Oh dear god man! That’s the worst piece of apeshit program / IM client I’ve ever used. I can’t stand all the emotes, fancy features, built in games and oversized buttons – not to mention the fact that people can use emotiocons in their nickname. (oh and yes, the interface is ugly as .. just ew.
That’s why I use trillian pro. I’m not going to advertize it here, but basically it has all that I need + and extras. It’s actually really customizeable (sp?) and a light weight program that does exactly what you want it to do.
Done.
Like pretty much everyone else here, not a big fan of them – but you just know they’ll be used. Maybe by the same people you wish you didn’t know. The custom emoticon using ones with the diaristic msn names .. sigh, what happened to just messaging?
almost makes me miss ICQ..
Disabling nudges/winks on your own machine is fine, but what about Microsoft releasing a nudge/wink free version for use in offices where IT administrators (like myself) aren’t too keen on employees wasting their time and resources scouring for new and even more annoying winks all day and showing them off to everyone else in the office.
I’d gladly go back to the original Windows messenger on the network if only it had the ‘save your message history’ function as this can be extremely useful to record day-to-day conversations.
Anyone know of any other good (free) IM clients which has this message history functionality built in?