[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12076: Admin > User contact methods extended

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#12076: Admin > User contact methods extended
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 Reporter:  F J Kaiser   |       Owner:                                                           
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                                                      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  3.0                                                      
Component:  Users        |     Version:  2.9.1                                                    
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  Usermeta, User, skype, aim, jabber, google talk, yahoo im
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 Hi,

 i think we can say, that AIM/Yahoo IM/Jabber are pretty old now. On the
 one hand i would say: Drop this and leave the implementation to a plugin
 (me: +1). On the other hand (if it doesn´t get dropped) i would say:
 extend it. As a minimum i would say: Add Skype.

 I found the related function in /wp-includes/registration.php
 http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/nav.html?_functions/index.html

 but i don´t know where this get´s saved in the db. if it´s the user_meta-
 table it should be no problem to pass ex. skype into the functions array.
 (but i would really like to see this getting depr.)

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