Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
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Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
Hello there. AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers are all dead social media services and we cannot remove them in the Profile options, unlike the form fields we can add by ourselves. I adore PHPBB3 for its stability and in how great detail it can be modified for our needs, but having these messengers around in the profile editing field makes the format feel more dated than it truly is. 
However, Discord is very much alive and thus much more up to date. I use it regularly, so do many of my friends.
It also kind of matches with the idea of forums, being designed as a comfortable environment for groups.
So could those three be removed and that one be added instead?

However, Discord is very much alive and thus much more up to date. I use it regularly, so do many of my friends.

So could those three be removed and that one be added instead?
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Re: Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
Hell
There is already a suggestion about this here https://help.forumotion.com/t153733-discord-contact-field?highlight=Discord
There is already a suggestion about this here https://help.forumotion.com/t153733-discord-contact-field?highlight=Discord
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Re: Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
Totally agreed @Lady Elaini
Why don't just remove the old ones and add something new like this?

Why don't just remove the old ones and add something new like this?
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User ID : 123
Keyword custom URL : https://your-link.com/user-id
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Re: Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
we already have the discord widget in the forum,we already have the discord widget in the forum, I don't see a need for a special profile field.
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Re: Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
I meant my own forums, though... I didn't see an option for Discord there but I created my own form field for it anyway.jucarese wrote:we already have the discord widget in the forum,we already have the discord widget in the forum, I don't see a need for a special profile field.
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Re: Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
Hello,Lady Elaini wrote:I meant my own forums, though... I didn't see an option for Discord there but I created my own form field for it anyway.
Administration Panel > Modules > Forum widgets management > Search for the widget called Discord Server > and you can complete the steps, like in this picture mentioned below


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Re: Remove AIM, MSN and Yahoo messengers off the lists of contact field in PHPBB3, add Discord instead
Thank you, the widgets are a cool feature for sure and I'll consider using them but I meant this part of the user profile edits in the beginning:

I can hide those from the other users of course but no one can do anything with them because they don't work at all. So what can the admins do with them, besides admiring them for nostalgic reasons? We cannot remove them entirely either.

I can hide those from the other users of course but no one can do anything with them because they don't work at all. So what can the admins do with them, besides admiring them for nostalgic reasons? We cannot remove them entirely either.
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