AOL Instant Messenger went offline today, unless you want to use their browser login or their most recent version which sucks.
What other Instant Messengers out there are similar or better than AIM? I'm looking for an IM that doesn't require an email or phone number, just a username or account with the software.
Any program where you can easily share pictures off the web/PC, no lag in sending messages, message encryption are all a plus, but I'm open to anything you guys use.
Landon Harris
There's like a gazillion of text messengers
Jonathan Turner
Discord, or Telegram. I recommend telegram.
Hunter Jenkins
welcome to the internet grandpa
Jackson Wilson
yeah, I've gone through like 20, but none are satisfactory
Matthew Rivera
I remember back in 2003 or so downloading a version of AIM that was already a few years old because if you fucked with one of its config files you could stop it from loading ads.
I was ad-blocking before it was cool
Ian Miller
One sells your info, the other has your phone number and most people say it has bad crypto. I guess you could use discord if you just shitpost with people you know online and don't talk about anything private. Why do you recommend telegram?
Brody Johnson
Telegram rolled their own closed-source encryption suite and are trying to market themselves as "the secure chat", giving their users a completely unjustified sense of false security.
Unless things have changed since I last checked.
Sebastian Clark
>AOL Instant Messenger went offline today nigger what?!
I was under the impression that shit been offline a minimum of 15 years
>buddy list never thought in my life I would lay eyes upon that stupid icon again
as far as sharing alternatives go, perhaps ftp is what you're looking for. Or you can always copy the data to a floppy and mail that shit
Jeremiah Kelly
when this was announced a few weeks ago i logged into the browser version and couldn't believe how many people were still logged into it on my buddy list
Landon Wright
can't you just download an old version like v4 and use it? i did that like 8 years ago and had the same experienced, i wonder if i still remember my password...
Christopher Taylor
They closed third party access, including all the older versions of AIM.
Henry James
I'm logged in right now through Pidgin, you dun goofed somewhere. Try Trillian if you need a mobile client version.
John Butler
post your age and first AIM screen name
>27 >Sk8tErDuDe91161
Leo Allen
I'm actually on Pidgin right now, but I figured I'd just look for something new and improved.
Luke Miller
I've been using Google Hangouts as XMMP in Pidgin and also the Facebook and Skype plugin for Pidgin (in b4 gtfo normie)
Aaron Gomez
Didn't they stop updating that service a long time ago? I would think it has serious security problems now
Angel Hernandez
>36 >KneeGrow
Was also my IRC name on dalnet. That and liquidfox. Good times.
Luke Perry
wire
Owen Anderson
remember how much time and effort you spent into making you profile?
and then my buddy profile came out or whatever
and THEN myspace came out
what a good time that was
also
>that feeling when your crush would message you and that iconic sound would make your heart rate shoot through the roof or they would go offline and the door would slam
Eli Kelly
Quit being a picky autist and use one.
Benjamin Young
>using aol's client Why would you do this?
Jackson Adams
31 Sk8rdd86
Julian Myers
idk, help me be better
Lincoln Wright
Damn is offline? I haven't used it in like 10 years. Kinda sad about it to be honest, seen the fall of most of the original IM programs. Is yahoo messenger still a thing? I know msn died too.
Colton Scott
I miss those days
Asher Peterson
>31 >TotallyDrunk211 Kill me.
Asher Campbell
>24 >Kaidragon06 I was (and am) a huge weeaboo.
Connor White
AIM isn't going offline. AOL got lazy and killed the OSCAR protocol (meant for 3rd party access).
The official client still works (and still has ads). Some 3rd party clients (like Pidgin) worked with AOL to move over to a still-supported access method.
Jaxon Lewis
>24 >x_zidane_x Fuck
Angel Morgan
>member when all your friends and their different services were all unified in pidgin ? >yeah i member
this assault on xmmp back in the day was the first shoe to drop in what would be come the facebook panopticon we live in today.
Asher Carter
I believe so, but it's been pulled back quite a bit, similar to AIM's current state.
Alexander Cook
works with apple messages too
Christian Roberts
>song lyrics as away message
Noah White
I do not like telegram.
It searches for your number in ALL telegramm accounts and tells them you're on telegramm. Wether you want them to know or not.