Fanatic Live will no longer continue to be updated. The main reason for this is the Windows Live Messenger developer community has been getting quieter over the last few years with many people losing interest and attention shifting to social networking sites. Content will remain intact along with all projects hosted here, and because the forum continues to have some activity, it will remain open indefinitely.

Thank you to everyone who supported us over the years. Thanks especially to Matthias Braekevelt for starting this website back in 2001 with his project “The Friendly Names”, which spawned a large developer community for MSN Messenger. Thanks to Gaz, immi, Liam, doggie, psyko, noroom, Steve, and also all former forum moderators for ideas, guidance, and contributions to the community. Also thanks to Le Marquis for lots of graphics work such as the website header.