I know everyone is probably sick and tired of reading about chatterbox improovement requests, but this one struck me as being a nice one.

This morning when I logged on there were like 18 monks hanging around, and I thought, "What if the chatterbox and the other users nodelets merged?" I know the idea must of been hanging around there somewhere, but this is how I see it happening:

• the list of available users comes up in the select box (maybe even multiple select?)
• the last person to page you gets selected
• messages appear in the middle of the nodelet
• personal messages are bolded
• public messages are italicized
• info goes to, well, info!
• ...and guess what talk does?

I haven't seen the chatterbox code yet, but I suppose it would be easy to replace /msg user with user=person&msg=blah blah blah. What do you all think?


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