Not planned replace skype with whatsapp

[sam2019]

skype is dead, can we have Whatsapp as an option under account details?

I cant just write "whatsapp" there, I get this error

Oops! We ran into some problems.
Skype: Please enter a value that matches the required format.

 

[Suzanne O]

Zoom or microsoft teams is better

 

[sam2019]

Zoom or microsoft teams is better

may be for you - for me Whatsapp has no alternative, all my business contacts use it.

 

[Suzanne O]

Or have the options in a dropdown radio box and we pick one.

 

[Chromaniac]

doesn't whatsapp require revealing the actual phone number?

 

[ENF]

doesn't whatsapp require revealing the actual phone number?

You can share contacts with a QR code and expire them after use, but the phone number still the contact information that's shared.

 

[Chris D]

The most appropriate alternative to Skype is just renaming it to Teams (everyone is reachable on Teams in the same way they were on Skype).

If you’d rather have WhatsApp, the best thing to do is just create a new WhatsApp field and let people populate that if they want to.

XenForo no longer ships any contact fields by default. New installs don’t have any of the old ones we used to add (no Skype, Twitter or Facebook) and we aren’t planning to add new ones at this point.