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AIM scumChat
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:45 pm
by PeregrineV
I know this may outside the bounds of your Help scope, but why does the link aim:gochat?roomname=ScumChat&Exchange=5 do absolutely nothing for me?
In Chrome it does nothing. New tab? Blank screen, not even loading.
IE says "Protocol not found".
Going here and logging in shows nothing:
http://www.aim.com/
TIA if you can shed some light on this.
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:45 pm
by UberNinja
I could be wrong but I think you have to have an aim client of some kind (AIM itself, Trillian, etc) actually installed. I don't think Express version works.
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:21 am
by gorckat
The new clients have never worked for me. I had to find version 5 or 6 to use Scumchat.
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:05 am
by UberNinja
I think I maaaay have some old 3.1 or 4.0 aim installations on my desktop. Let me check next time its available.
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:47 am
by chamber
3.1 is before buddy lists.
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:14 pm
by Mastermind of Sin
I'm using pidgin. =P
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:20 pm
by UberNinja
↑ chamber wrote:3.1 is before buddy lists.
Nuh uh. Really?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:43 am
by chamber
I didn't use aim before 4.something, I'm just going off of what I read online, it could be wrong.
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:53 am
by UberNinja
Well, you are only 24 right? AIM was shittier back then... but... no buddy lists?
I don't remember that far back and I used to use it forever ago (stopped using IM altogether when Gmail came out).
Maybe try this and find out?:
http://www.4shared.com/folder/0Oh81J08/AIM_31.html
(Warning: I don't know if the exe download has viruses or even if it works... I just did a search.)
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:58 am
by chamber
My lack of AIM use isn't related to my age but my nationality, I didn't really use AIM until I needed it for scumchat. Here other messengers were and are much more popular.
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:06 am
by UberNinja
Incidentally, what nationality are you?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:26 am
by chamber
Canadian?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:49 am
by UberNinja
eh
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:56 am
by PeregrineV
I don't think I have anything AOL-related installed on any computers (since like 2000). Do I have to install some sort of software or can it be reached by the web version of AIM?>
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:58 am
by UberNinja
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:31 am
by chamber
↑ PeregrineV wrote:I don't think I have anything AOL-related installed on any computers (since like 2000). Do I have to install some sort of software or can it be reached by the web version of AIM?>
Its unreachable by the offical web versions that I know of.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:04 pm
by Kimor
Why don't we move Scumchat to something more usable, anyway?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:38 pm
by chamber
Cause then it wouldn't be scumchat? There is a facebook group that you can chat on, and we had a site chat(that you are too new to have seen) and will again eventually in theory.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:42 pm
by animorpherv1
↑ chamber wrote:Cause then it wouldn't be scumchat? There is a facebook group that you can chat on
Facebook dismantled the actual chat thingy...
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:18 pm
by chamber
So they did, I wonder why.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:16 pm
by Kimor
↑ chamber wrote:Cause then it wouldn't be scumchat? There is a facebook group that you can chat on, and we had a site chat(that you are too new to have seen) and will again eventually in theory.
See my sig. That being said, it must have started shortly after I left and closed before I got back.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:18 pm
by chamber
It was only live on the site for like a month.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:59 pm
by Isa
↑ chamber wrote:will again eventually in theory.
What's pointing against this?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:04 pm
by chamber
1: it never actually worked properly in chrome
2: hohum needs to setup the jabber server again, which I have 0 control over.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:15 am
by hohum
Jabber be runnin. Auth script be not.
It's still sitting in my inbox. I'll try and hack on it this weekend.