wonderful!!. now let´s go to the next step:
join these three networks in a single app.
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A Java phone aplication like that being able to connect to Escargot would be really great!!!
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That would be sweet!!! i hope to get one like that in the future. but for now i have to use the one i got recently.
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Which one did you got recently?
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It’s been 8 months of no updates on the Yahoo! frontend, so I think it’s time I give them here:
First off, the Yahoo! frontend is near completion. Here are a list of things that are completed at the moment:
- Contact management
- Presence
- Messaging
- Conferencing
- File transfer (somewhat; P2P works depending on your firewall setup, while HTTP file transfer does work for uploads, but Yahoo! Messenger seems to complain about not being able to download the file)
I’m considering removing alias support, since they’re just another Escargot account and they kind of defeat the purpose of Escargot accounts being global and all. This leaves webcam and addressbook support, which I might be able to do, although addressbook support will have to be thought upon since I’m utilizing the same addressbook system the MSN frontend uses for contacts.
Second off, I and @valtron have had plans to host a frontend that offers a multitude of chats, both predefined and user-created. For a frontend that’d utilize those chats, we settled on Yahoo! Messenger’s Yahoo! Chat feature, since it already supports predefined and user rooms by default, and it’d probably get more users from the fact that the chatrooms would be built right in to your messaging client. Whether this will come in the next server update or afterwards is undecided, but keep an eye out. 
That’s all I have to say about Yahoo! really. We’ll see each other again when the frontend goes live. 
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so we’re getting both WLM 2009 and YMSG 5 soon
fucking NEATO
Plus IRC. 
There’s also the much-announced cross-platform messaging, meaning MSN ↔ Yahoo! will be a thing, albeit unofficially, along with support for other different messaging platforms to talk to each other (AIM and MSN, Yahoo! and AIM, so on and so forth).
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What will that irc do?
Is it some kind of relay?
What Y! versions will be supported?
Also, how will the IRC bridge work?
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Yahoo! Messenger 5.5 or any YMSG10-compliant client will be supported during intial deployment. Protocol versions after or before will be implemented later on.
As for the IRC frontend, it can’t let users have private conversations with users on networks outside of IRC, but it will let you access any public chats with your current account.
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The current state of affairs for Yahoo! support on Escargot hasn’t changed that much. Just some general improvements of how presence and messaging are handled. However, just yesterday, I realized the Yahoo! Messenger configuration @ChetSimpson gave me (system.xml) disables Yahoo! Chat (this was around late 2012, when Yahoo! discontinued the service). While Yahoo! Chat works regardless on 5.5, it’s been noted that in later versions (I predict starting with 8.1) that Yahoo! Chat can be disabled. Adding on to the fact that this and Yahoo! Messenger’s other configurations are signed, that Chet basically betrayed us and his archival efforts on Yahoo! Messenger (along with his life choices), that finding archives of these configurations are hard enough as it is, and that it’s basically hard to find anyone else who cared about Yahoo! Messenger to the technical level to archive every nook and cranny of the service, that basically means we’re screwed and I’ll have to find a way to make the clients disregard the signature. Since that’s impossible for me to do and no one else who knows about Escargot is experienced enough to do that anyway, the only plausible solution would be to wait for someone who does have the proper configurations before Yahoo! started disabling Chat and whatever other nonsense they started disabling. Personally speaking, though, I doubt that day will ever come…
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iwarg.ddns.net/ymsg has a working server but it’s offline for yahoo and idk why. Worked pretty well with yahoo messenger 6
Don’t count on Wildman when it comes to reliability or wanting to care about the stability of his servers. I’ve experienced it and complained about it on his forums several times. He mainly insists on hosting stuff from his own servers through his ISP, and as for the stability part, on the Yahoo! server at least it’s him not giving a crud that much about fixing the nonsensical bugs that plague it.
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Is Y² still running? I haven’t checked in a while.
yes
Ok, just a little opinion around here. So can we expect a basic usage in the near future?
For Wildman, not so sure tbh. It’ll probably still be quirky as it is now. 
but how do I download yahoo messenger on escargot help me 