I still have my icq number memorized and I think I always will
ICQ will stop working from June 26
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Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#742Goodbye from 281436455, registered in ~2005.
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#743Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not just answer a question without the “Google is your friend” crap? That’s rude and we’re better than that.
You are absolutely right. I don't see an edit button, but if there was one I would remove it and just add the links without the commentary.
Well done acknowledging it though. That converted a bit of pointless internet anger into a great bit of personal responsibility. Thanks fellow internet user for doing your part today to make the net a better place.
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#744Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try Ferdium, RAMbox, or Station. All FOSS. https://ferdium.org/ https://rambox.app/ https://getstation.com/
These all suck comapred to Pidgen. Pidgen was one UI. This is just a bunch of webapps shoved into the same window/app and it's ugly and awkward as all fuck to use.
https://www.beeper.com/ has been my main chat app aggregator, it's not perfect but works for most cases
You can also self host it
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#745Great example of a terrible way to explain things to people:
"VK Messenger"
I'd guess most people going to the website would have no idea what VK Messenger is.
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#746Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is correct but it was still more open than what we have now with the current services. 3rd party clients and multi-protocol messengers we don't have at all anymore.
Isn't that what Beeper or Ferdium are doing? And there's still libpurple/Pidgin. [1] https://www.beeper.com/ [2] https://ferdium.org/
Interesting, need to check but so far the modern methods of multi protocol messaging was mostly just aggregating the web UIs of the various services in a single application (read: like a web browser)
Pidgin, Miranda, Adium are the things I was referring to - would be cool if I could use them for whatsapp, signal, gmail chat/hangouts but I don‘ think thats possible. Happy to get corrected here.
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#747Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that what Beeper or Ferdium are doing? And there's still libpurple/Pidgin. [1] https://www.beeper.com/ [2] https://ferdium.org/
Interesting, need to check but so far the modern methods of multi protocol messaging was mostly just aggregating the web UIs of the various services in a single application (read: like a web browser) Pidgin, Miranda, Adium are the things I was referring to - would be cool if I could use them for whatsapp, signal, gmail chat/hangouts but I don‘ think thats possible. Happy to get corrected here.
https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Pro... lists all of them.
Re: ICQ will stop working from June 26
#748I think I still remember my ICQ #: 15868571 EDIT: How would I even log in to take a peek? It won't accept my US phone # and my (old, insecure) passwords that I likely used no longer work (and I can't seem to use that number as the login!)
My finnish phone number did not work either with web login, although I dont think I ever saved it anywhere back then. But succeeded to login with UID and password that I have luckily been keeping in safe (post-its first in the 90s, keepass nowadays)
yeah I use firefox's secure password store of late with long passwords generated either automatically or via a dictionary-word password generator I created
https://replit.com/@pmarreck/Random-and-dictionary-password-...
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#749For everyone proudly displaying their old ICQ numbers, just be aware that there are still sites that have some of the info tied to the numbers archived (presumably what was made public/status). So, there may be some easily-access publicly identifiable information that you don't want associated with your current HN username. (I just did a search and I found that my old icq# had a phone number linked to it)
just googling didn't come up with anything for me. were there specific sites you found info on?
ICQ.im is one. For some numbers it inexplicably fails out.
Is the format.
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#750Earlier quoted context omitted.
You missed the point. The point wasn't the nature of the tool itself. Anyone could join, and one could chat with anyone. It was used "by the people" and not curated by corps.
Pretty sure every large-scale chat app that exists is used "by the people"? What are you actually trying to say?
Currently it's used "by the customer", or worse, "by the data suppliers".