They started breaking alternative clients intentionally with small protocol changes. Instead of just eating it everybody changed IMs, fast.
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Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoICQ… Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I used to use the crap out of that service, but I can’t for the life of me recall what killed it anymore than I can recall migrating from AIM.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
beefontoast@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Microsoft pushed msn messenger as a default in windows… Autostarted the app on login, made a million popups asking people to use it… People stared using it. Usual story.
kuneho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I kinda liked Windows Messenger/MSN/Windows Live Messenger with all its quirks.
Sadly, Facebook killed it and for some reason, they thought it would be nice to kill it off in favor of Skype, which never worked as intended and was a really heavy boy to run.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Maybe somewhere, but where I lived everybody moved to Skype. It was technologically full of wizardry to make it work on bad channels, had fast file transfers, convenient GUI, groups (which ICQ didn’t have, but everybody would just use web forums or web chats or, ah, IRC).
Some time ago I recovered my Skype history, googled how to retrieve it and read it from those files. I cringed so hard.