Current Events > Well, I hope you're all happy. AIM is DEAD.

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Caution999
12/15/17 1:25:43 AM
#1:


sniff
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Purple_Cheetah
12/15/17 1:31:03 AM
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Well, that was a bit abrupt...

I was honestly hoping for it to give the "shoot, something seems to have gone wrong. wait a moment and try again" error.

Would have been fitting.

On the plus side, I now have a program that opens a box to let me click "try again" to my heart's content.
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Shotgunnova
12/15/17 1:36:45 AM
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I am happy. Thanks for asking.
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Caution999
12/15/17 1:38:54 AM
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I can't help but wonder if it still runs in AOL, but I can't be bothered to download that garbage.
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Purple_Cheetah
12/15/17 1:55:11 AM
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Caution999 posted...
I can't help but wonder if it still runs in AOL, but I can't be bothered to download that garbage.

Very doubtful, the entire aim service was ended. If you go try to even find it in their support/faqs it was hard to find anything as they began removing stuff 2ish weeks ago. Basically looks as if it never existed in the first place. You have to actively search for it and the only thing you get now, unless it too was pulled, is the page saying it'll be ended on the morning of dec 15. Which slightly jumped the gun as it was still 10:23pm pst...

I figured they'd do it during the normal roll over hours at 5ish am cst when they typically did stuff. However, I guess they too decided "it's dead, jim". So yeah, no point in downloading aol for desktop as the aim service itself is now done(or is in the process of being murdered data wise) and you'd just be wasting your time with that.

Yep, they even nuked the web browser approach as now it just gives an invalid url error. aim.com that is, so no point in bothering to run it off aol for desktop.
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SableWolfAngel
12/15/17 2:10:05 AM
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I wonder when it'll kick me off because I'm still logged in and sent some chats. I hope my chat logs are saved as just simple text files so I can read them in the future.
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Purple_Cheetah
12/15/17 2:24:37 AM
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Interesting, if you're actually still on... then it means they're doing the rolling out method. Where blocks of users get dropped/updated based on servers or however they handle their data.

Was curious if they'd do the rolling or everyone at once method.
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SableWolfAngel
12/15/17 2:42:33 AM
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Purple_Cheetah posted...
Interesting, if you're actually still on... then it means they're doing the rolling out method. Where blocks of users get dropped/updated based on servers or however they handle their data.

Was curious if they'd do the rolling or everyone at once method.


I got booted on my computer, but not on the phone app.
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Touch
12/15/17 2:45:49 AM
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More blood on Ajit Pai's hands
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Purple_Cheetah
12/15/17 2:46:21 AM
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Yeah, basing it on this topic and the other that was an hour prior, they're doing a rolling death. So blocks of servers are going down vs all at once. This makes sense for updates such as windows update or something, but this makes it just depressing to be in CA and have your friend in NY disappear forever for 1-1.5 hours before you knowing your time is soon.

Funny thing about the app for the phone, they were still pushing it for download till the very end... "take it as a momento"
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