+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted July 1, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted July 1, 2008 Earlier on I was disconnected from ICQ (using Adium under Mac OS X) and couldn't reconnect. The Adium blog had this to say about the problem: Many of you are reporting an error message that started appearing today:The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/ First, about that website address: Adium uses libpurple, which is the core library from Pidgin. That?s why Pidgin?s address is in the message. We need to swap out that address for Adium?s address. As for the rest of the error: It appears that, starting today, AOL?s servers now require ICQ 6 or later. Libpurple, in every recent version of Adium, promises to behave like ICQ 5. So, now, AOL?s server responds with ?ICQ 5, you say? You?re too old!? Libpurple receives this and passes it on to Adium, which displays it to you. Once the Pidgin team (they maintain libpurple, remember) fixes this problem, we?ll bring the fix into Adium, and we?ll get it out to you in a new release as soon as we can. Thanks for yourSourcer/"]Source[/url] Apparently this affects all unofficial ICQ clients as well as the official client versions < 6. Way to go, AOL&Before anybody says 'Who uses ICQ these days?': It's still very popular here in Germany.here in Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted July 1, 2008 Veteran Share Posted July 1, 2008 What's the difference between ICQ and AIM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 What's the difference between ICQ and AIM? One isn't used and one's used. :rofl: . In all seriousness. I didn't know that people still used ICQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I would say ICQ is the number 1 IM-protocol in Germany (maybe even Europe?). Miranda has no problems with the login and QIP got an update. So it's not a big deal to avoid this check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted July 1, 2008 Author Subscriber² Share Posted July 1, 2008 I would say ICQ is the number 1 IM-protocol in Germany (maybe even Europe?).Miranda has no problems with the login an QIP got an update. So it's not a big deal to avoid this check. Hm? A friend of mine can't get Miranda to connect to ICQ at all. Weird. For those on the Mac: iChat still works. Just add an AIM account and enter your ICQ UIN as screen name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I would say ICQ is the number 1 IM-protocol in Germany (maybe even Europe?). The number one protocol in Europe is the .NET Messenger Service (MSN), but everybody in Germany uses ICQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The2 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Someone uses ICQ? Isn't that, like, 8 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
instant.human Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 yeah right, virtually everyone here uses icq... i dont even know why but well you go with the masses, more or less. i mean if everyone of your friends still uses icq because they dont know better, you are bound to have at least an icq account to reach someone. while i always hated IM, i rather call someone, ftm. ;) well, there is only one thing to do: enjoy the summer holidays (for those who have them) and be patient. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 The number one protocol in Europe is the .NET Messenger Service (MSN), but everybody in Germany uses ICQ. Got any numbers? Couldn't find a statistic or list about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainDedd Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Miranda still logs into ICQ fine ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Hm? A friend of mine can't get Miranda to connect to ICQ at all. Weird. Just download an actual build (or even a nightly) and copy the icq.dll of the archive in your plugins directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Got any numbers?Couldn't find a statistic or list about this. Not really, I'm not a marketeer. My gf could have some stats on that, but I'm not sure... This is from 2006, and even back then MSN was already beating the **** out of AOL/AIM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eilegz Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 still ICQ its the best, sure no one use it, but its the only IM that feature file transfer resume, and many features like history and offline msg msn didnt have it until now while old icq have it long time ago. Icq its a pioneer in IM, too underrated, its only annoyance was the number but i still remember mine. Too bad my friends use the crappy msn i have no choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huleboeren Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 yeah right, virtually everyone here uses icq... i dont even know why but well you go with the masses, more or less. i mean if everyone of your friends still uses icq because they dont know better, you are bound to have at least an icq account to reach someone. while i always hated IM, i rather call someone, ftm. ;) well, there is only one thing to do: enjoy the summer holidays (for those who have them) and be patient. =) Ya, it is right.. Seriously, you germans need to move on :D I was in this hostel lobby half a year ago and these germans next to me were using ICQ - I was like "NO WAI :o" Only feature worth mentioning in ICQ was the where you could see what other person was typing in realtime - that was fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 This is from 2006, and even back then MSN was already beating the **** out of AOL/AIM. Thanks a lot. Very interesting figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Ya, it is right..Seriously, you germans need to move on :D Why? I don't see any advantages of the other proprietary IM protocols. Me and my friends just skipped all of them an moved over to Jabber/XAMPP. But no one even mentioned MSN, AIM, YI, ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punio4 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Finally. Now perhaps 90% of my colleagues will dump trillan/pidgin/miranda ICQ, for the lack of a better client, and switch to MSN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Finally.Now perhaps 90% of my colleagues will dump trillan/pidgin/miranda ICQ, for the lack of a better client, and switch to MSN. *g* Trillian, Pidgin and Miranda are not affected. And those 3 are the "better client". They are multi clients. An Pidgin and Miranda are open source! So they are allready using the better one :) If they want to, they can use these clients for MSN too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEIST Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I noticed as well in Pidgin. I haven't actually used ICQ in years but dragged my account along anyways. I don't care if they lock out other clients for whatever reason. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted July 2, 2008 Veteran Share Posted July 2, 2008 I still can't believe people use icq :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coth Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Someone uses ICQ? Isn't that, like, 8 years ago? ICQ is still being used in Russia as MS still unsuccessfully pushing their services here. QIP was unable to connect ICQ for a few hours as well. But a new version was quickly released for PC. QIP Infium logs into ICQ without problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatsniffer Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 The headline might as well read "Future versions of windows will not support Tandy hardware." ICQ is just awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted July 2, 2008 Veteran Share Posted July 2, 2008 fixed: http://adiumx.com/blog/2008/07/adium-126-t...is-too-old-not/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimman Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Mm, ICQ ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 i should try to remember my number/password to see if people on my list still go online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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