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Why why why? I have been asking this since 5 months ago without a reply. Is it that difficult? Many other competitor products maintain the nickname such as meebo, ebuddy etc.            

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The worst type of idiot is the one whom you don't have the guts to call so

We haven't looked into this yet, but most likely the reason is due to an implimentation difference, probably coupled with a bug.  Meebo uses Game as an underlying layer to provide their messenger communication, while we use ejabberd.  We both provide IM functionality on the web, but we use different core technologies.  It's possible that ejabberd (or more likely the MSN transport - a bridge from MSN to ejabber - that we're using) is causing this isue.  If this is the case, we would be able to fix it only by changing the transport code - something that we have stayed away from for manageability and support reasons.  Or it could be that we are simply doing something wrong and have a bug in our system.  In either case, it hasn't been a high priority for us.  That said, we'll now add it to our list of IM issues and will review in the new year...  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. So, any progress on this?

Regards,

Omar

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The worst type of idiot is the one whom you don't have the guts to call so

No - we haven't had any progress on this yet.  We have a large upgrade planned for tonight, and this is one of the issues we plan to address after this one is completed.

So we've made progess on this issue...  it appears that we weren't maintaining other user's display names within the goowy IM list, although we had this data.  We will now be doing this.  However, the protocol doesn't allow for sending of display name from our system to others, so your display name is shown to be your goowy ID.  Those users who have given you a nickname will see your nickname and others will see your goowy id, with the hover over containing your MSN email address.

This change will be in production by the end of the week...

Just following up on this;
Will I be able to change my MSN name in the near future? Even if I could just temporarily have the option to have it display my email instead of my Goowy name, it would be better because as you can tell my display name isn't always the most appropriate
Thanks,
HD