Quote from: InvoKing on Today at 09:54:06 PM

Some members here were born after these services have launched or their closure.
Is there a way to update these things @admin?

Well, here is your chance to be our hero

The topic has been talked about several times but nothing has so far been done for some few reasons that Cyrus pointed out.

Quote from: logfiles on December 14, 2023, 09:35:01 PM

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like your proposal is going to be part of the many social network proposals that have been made in the past and have been totally ignored.

1. Add a Telegram contact method.
2. Can the mod add GetGems Messenger to Forum Profile Information?
3. Profile information
4. The profile page should be changed. No one uses ICQ, AIM, MSN or YIM.]
5. Adding Telegram on the profile page
6. Suggestion to change the obsolete social media from account info
7. Why do we still have options for MSN, YIM etc?

This was the last topic ---> [proposal] Update Profile > Social Networks ICQ/AIM/MSN/YIM. Maybe you can bump it to remind the admins yet again.

There was some glimmer of hope in that thread though

Quote from: PowerGlove on February 13, 2024, 01:39:24 PM

I've read through the topics helpfully posted by logfiles (thanks, man), and I've looked at the relevant SMF code, and I think I can put together a patch to improve the usefulness of those old fields. It's a little tricky because those fields have been baked into SMF's code without much forward-thinking or extensibility in mind, so I don't think it's wise to keep adding new fields using the current approach (both from a programming point-of-view and in terms of visual clutter). Even though most of those fields now refer to defunct services, I also don't think it's wise to remove any of them (with Bitcointalk, especially when messing with existing functionality, my inclination is to have a conservator/preservation mindset and to steer well-clear of destructive updates).

Quote from: Cyrus on December 16, 2023, 05:10:23 AM

What about something like this:
- The number of fields, platform names and user input remains the same. This is how existing information is preserved.
- In the Forum Profile Information page a dropdown menu is added next to the defaults to switch with some new ones (Discord, Telegram, etc). This also keeps the same number of contact fields.
- Updating the contact fields should also update the small logo under the user's avatar, displayed in posts.

Yep. That's just about the best way to approach it, IMO.

I think the "Skype" field should probably be moved upwards to sit with the other fields, like this:

Then, I think those 5 field labels could be converted into dropdowns, like this:

That way, everyone's existing field values would remain intact, but people would be free to switch them out for more modern alternatives (and whenever those get out-of-date, adding new choices would be really simple).

There's some extra per-choice stuff to keep track of in the background (an icon, a regex to limit what can be entered, a template to transform what was entered into a link, etc.) and some database adjustments would be needed (I think ~5 new columns on the members table, and 1 new table to catalog the available choices would probably do it).

I'll see what I can come up with in my test environment...

(If anyone has any notes/ideas about this, feel free to either leave them here or PM me about it.)