When opening a DM session with a user from the friends list -or- a from rightclicking their name in a channel, it seemingly does not work the first time. But does on the 2nd. This has just seemed like a bug for a while, but I finally understood why: it's because opening a DM first just adds it to the DM list, if it isn't already there. This happens with no feedback. On the 2nd attempt (or rather, any attempt where the DM is already open in ), it does zip to the new DM window. This doesn't make sense to me. I can't believe it's on purpose--it seems relatively unlikely anyone would "open a DM" without being ready to use it immediately.

I feel that opening a new DM session should (that is, adding to the DMs list) should automatically zip to a new DM window for that user.

New DMs not opening on first attempt is a known bug. I'm closing this ticket and creating a new one which is less confusing to read.