You’d think that this would have not alot of bugs, You’d be wrong.
There is too much bugs in this program, it’s not even the original AOL Desktop, it’s a visual source remake.
You can spam empty messages to other users and quite possibly break the server.
The program will crash even if you put the correct settings for your email.
You can edit the forms which makes the program VERY vulnerable.
–Pros
Nostalgia
Easy to use
Automatic Updater (pretty cool if i say)
–Cons
Not alot is finished.
Buddy Lists take long to load (probably just me)
Doesn’t sign on for some users.
Alot of bugs.
Broken features. (Mailbox, My AOL, etc)
Visual Source
It isn’t all bad, It’s pretty identical to the original program with alot of channels, and Wildman stated you can create custom content for the channels.
Chatrooms don’t work currently but they will most likely be added later.
I understand that the program just launched and it’s still in alpha, don’t worry.
Thanks for writing up a detailed review Lush, I appreciate it
Based on your review and trying it myself, I think a lot of freezes and crashing are due to threading issues, but that can be sorted out with more work. I really like how the Channels screen loads, I’m not sure if it’s intentional or not, but the
images load one-by-one, just like they used to on dialup (albeit a little faster). The nostalgia here is still pretty real for me.
This is cute too:
I think the uninstall is to remove the PhoenixDesktop folder on your own (was put in Program Files (x86) for me), it doesn’t seem to touch files elsewhere or the registry.
Thanks for reading my review TReKiE!, I’m pretty sure alot more improvements will come very soon, It seems that channels are entirely community generated content, I dmed Wildman about how to create such content and hopefully he’ll it soon, once again thank you for reading my review.
