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[leadfeather89]

.....I must be missing something. I can't find anywhere how you tell if your friends are online on their computer with the new messages system.

.....😕😕😕

Before messages, their names wouldn't be greyed out on the buddylist window, but now there is no buddylist window, so how can one tell? Am I just missing something?

😕😕😕😕

 

[nyolc8]

You can open that list in the Window menu.

 

[leadfeather89]

You can open that list in the Window menu.

That window is only available if you're using an AIM account, but not if you're only using your iMessages account.

 

[669532]

this? in the all but final section called buddies?

 

[nyolc8]

That window is only available if you're using an AIM account, but not if you're only using your iMessages account.

My thoughts:
iMessage don't have statuses, so you won't have buddylist with iMessage account. Think about iMessage as an online-sms. You don't know the person status when you send an sms to him on mobile...