User Contact Fields in WordPress 2.9

I've been frustrated for ages with how WordPress deals with user profile fields. There's a "default" set of contact fields, which has always looked random to me: AIM, Yahoo IM and Jabber / Google Talk. A while back I got frustrated enough to have a look at how this is actually dealt with in the backend of WordPress, and found out that it wouldn't take too much work to fix it into something more decent.

In ticket #10240 I proposed that these user contact fields were filterable, and wrote a patch for it. With some help from Mark Jaquith the patch became clean and nice, and a few weeks back Peter Westwood was so kind as to commit it. So now, starting with 2.9, we'll be able to filter user contact fields.

This works very easily, the code below adds Twitter and removes Yahoo IM, and yes, this is all the code that's needed to do it:

function add_twitter_contactmethod( $contactmethods ) {
  // Add Twitter
  $contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';

  // Remove Yahoo IM
  unset($contactmethods['yim']);

  return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','add_twitter_contactmethod',10,1);

How cool is that? Can't wait for 2.9 to come out now, can you? :)