With more friends this becomes necessary. When several updates hit and I click view they would bury each other.

they could line up left to right across the screen. could fit 4 open conversations on my monitor, then pan either left or right for more

or pop oen a new one to replace the one I just commented on

There is an IM element here they are close to, I think you hit on another part of that with the multiple views?

ooh my Karma is 11.10

Working hard to get my 23.21 up to 40 so I can get a new icon other than the headless bone dog.

yeah its kind of grotesk