This is fixed now. User details are now customizable to include whatever fields you want. Each field can be not used, optional or required. You can also specify fields to be a list of options in a select box. Users can specify who is allowed to view their user details from the choice of everyone, local users and friends, local users, friends, or just the administrator.
Users are also able to specify who they accept instant messages and requests from.
Automatically sets server host and port in windows client download so that users do not need to specify it. Can restrict which IP addresses are allowed to connect to server. Server can listen on multiple ports. No longer have to append pop authentication host to usernames to form default user email address. Windows client now tries to connect directly to server rather than use proxy server, even if the proxy settings indicate that it should use the proxy server.