uhh
The address changed, but I’m going to take the site down anyway for a moment to change some things.
would add to im revivals https://mrim.su/
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Great list! Used it many times to get me around
The changes are mostly done; the project is now available at OpenLive Home . The download page is unfinished and the downloads are unavailable in the meantime. Most features are going to be added in the future. For now, launching Windows Live programs and signing into a pre-existing account are the only available features.
did you seriously attempt to avoid the pun of “relive the windows live experience” intentionally or was it just because it sounded weird otherwise
A lot of the twitter revivals listed have since gone defunct
This just seems to be not using Microsofts actual protocol for Windows Live Mail but using SMTP/IMAP/etc as I dont see that its signed into a Windows Live Account. If you are going to say “you revived Windows Live Mail” Then revive the actual protocol Windows Live used for Windows Live Mail instead of using IMAP/SMTP/Other Mail Protocols then the Protocols it used for connecting into the Internal Hotmail Servers such as Deltasync/HTTPMail.
Next time dont falsify things you “revived”.
Like ok its getting Mail I get that part but its not really using the Windows Live accounts/Protocol it used for Hotmail.
It would be nice if I could eventually implement some more web-to-app implementation, but in the meantime I’m working more on the website than on app stuff. For the near-future, account implementation on the website, a Spaces recreation (I’ll probably call it “OpenLive Spaces” or something), functional downloads, and a more comprehensive legal disclaimer are planned.
openlive spaces is probably going to take a million years though
and i also have to get better at JS and backend stuff in the meantime
i’d hesitate to call my project a revival as of now
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there’s a surprising amount of themes here that are misidentified as revivals
I’m actually just going to stop development on my project for probably ever; I just got really busy, found other interests, and also lost motivation.
just noticed icq 8 uses same icon for conferences as in mail ru agent lol
Is the github/open-oscar ICQ deal hard to use/setup and all that? I’m not so familiar with Github stuff.
Or is there another ICQ revival that is not .ru based? Dont want to spark arguments and such, but I’m just not comfortable with going into websites and software .ru based.
A self-hostable ICQ server sounds interesting tho, on that Github. Does anyone know any more about that?
fyi: not every russian is a putin dickrider who supports the so-called “special military operation”
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I think we’ve got a little off track here. Let’s move back. I think it’s worth mentioning that most of these OIC/revival-type projects usually originate either from the original country of origin or where they were popularized, for obvious reasons.
For example, Escargot (the original version) was built-in Canada (Messenger being the most used instant messaging there for a period), oMessenger was built-in the Netherlands (largest concentration of Messenger users in a country), and CrossTalk in the United States (original source of Messenger, AOL, Yahoo, etc.). It makes sense for ICQ projects to be Russian, as it spent most of its life there.
I would be very skeptical that our respective governments care to worry themselves about these projects.
That being said @yearning-monster, I would encourage you to try self-hosting, you probably have more than enough PC power to do it on your PC. Use a virtual machine if you’re concerned about the security aspect.
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that’s why I specifically didn’t say anything about people, simply stated I wasn’t comfortable with the domain suffix for reasons. ^.^
@TReKiE thanks for the tip!