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Hi Dirk,
The main functional difference between this and the old system, is that this one was meant to allow sites to support an open-ended list of new social media sites, such as Twitter, instead of having a hard-coded list of sites that inevitably become painfully obsolete.
But you're right about this interface. Users aren't going to know what we mean by "old messaging services". It's not like they've been following the evolution of Mahara and know that those are the messaging services that we used to have hard-wired in as profile fields.
And, asking users to pick "AIM screen name" from a menu and STILL have to write in the social site name, that's weird and repetitive as well.
It's a little late towards the 1.10.0 release to rewrite this interface in an intensive way right now, but I'll see if I can think of some way to smooth out these rough corners.
Cheers,
Aaron