05-04-2011, 11:02 AM
It would be the same thing as a shoutbox in my opinion. I'm against shoutboxes on forums, they don't do much good really. I'd like to see what others think about this though. I just think that it would slow down the forum a bit if we were to add an entire IM feature. You would have to have buddy lists as well in addition to the IM otherwise you'd be searching through everyone on the forum. We already have a decent PM feature, which allows you to send messages even if the person is offline.