CrossTalk State of the Union - Oct. 2026

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Hi all, here’s our latest progress update!

0.6 is in its final stages of development and will, finally, be rolled out this month. Likely within the next week or two, or three. Depends on how well internal testing goes.

On the WLM front, WLM 2011/2012 now has it’s contacts management features (except find friiends in common and profile services fully implemented. The user status service (which funnily enough uses Atom) has also been implemented for PSMs. The other social features aren’t implemented yet.
This may not come in the initial release, but I’ve started work on P2P interop with older versions and client capabilitiies interop; neither are fully working yet.

So you know the last update where I mentioned Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 support was going to be delayed until the next update?

I lied :P.
Not only is it coming, but multiple new features for Yahoo! Messenger as well, includng: photo sharing, a relay for file transfers, and avatars. Many bugs have been fixed too.
The initial reason for the delay was because of an issue I was having where it’d log out 60 secs after being logged in. Turns out my ping packet was using the wrong status :S

AIM’s server code is now ready for initial release. Basic functionality is implemented, including FEEDBAG (accurately this time :P), PD, instant messages, and soon after release, the user directory. Chatrooms will also come in a future update.

The TOC and TOC 2.0 protocols have also been implemented so any clients that utilize those can now connect to CrossTalk. WebAPI will come in a future update.

Much of the website is also being redesigned to be easier and smoother to use. A few new features coming to that is:

  • The ability to change your avatar straight from your account settings (only affects the member directory, WLM roaming display picture, and Yahoo! Messenger avatar right now)
  • The member directory will now recommend users for you to add based on a mix of shared interests and recent activity, scoring users based on the number of similar interests and how recently they’ve logged in, more shared interests and logging in at a recent time giving a higher score. Users with the highest score show up first
  • Code cleanup

Here’s some demos, including a sneak peak of uFind:

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I lied again :stuck_out_tongue:

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CrossTalk 0.6 will bring WLM 2011/2012 to (at least) the same featureset as Kring, including the social features!

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Works on 2009 too:

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For centuries, people have been yearning, begging for one thing, one last thing to save humanity…

“Let us use Windows Live Messenger 2012 on modern Windows!”

Well, here we are :stuck_out_tongue:

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We’ve developed proper patches for WLM 2011/2012, which will allow you to use it on Windows 8 - 11 without breaking Microsoft accounts (and use it, well, at all on Windows 10/11).

With that said, Windows Live Messenger 2011/2012 support is pretty much complete! Aside from a few minor missing things (the games browser and the TURN relay for P2P, which is coming at a later date, and finishing the P2P SDG-SB bridge), all that’s left is packaging installers, and then it’s game over.

I’m really happy to have come this far. CrossTalk has progressed from this cool little project that I worked on to mess with old IM protocols, to one of the most powerful and feature complete revival services around, at least when it comes to MSN and Yahoo! Messenger, and AIM too in the not too distant future :stuck_out_tongue:.

Thank you to everyone who has used CrossTalk and continues to support the project! You guys rock! I know 0.6 has had a long wait but trust me, it’ll be worth it :wink:. And you won’t have to wait for much longer :stuck_out_tongue:.

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So, have the servers for WLM 2012 been temporarily shut down due to updates? I’ve been unable to log in for the past few days.

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login on wlm2012 works fine for me

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Which operating system are you using, and is it 32-bit or 64-bit? Did you strictly follow the configuration steps provided in this link: (TEMP) Preliminary CrossTalk patching instructions for WLM 2011 & 2012 on Windows Vista/7/8.x ? Have you updated the root certificates? Have you enabled TLS?
If so, why am I receiving a “service temporarily unavailable” error?
Error code: 80048849