Topic: I am boycotting aim!
started by: ic0n0
Posted by ic0n0 on Feb. 08 2002,05:30
I know aol has a right to block my access it is there program and all but it’s not the ads that bother me it’s the fact that I have to use 4 different clients to get what I want and this is to much a hassle, once again this is not about the ads, if trillian added ads to trillian and gave the income to aol I wouldn’t care but I am now refusing to use aim, never again! I will not use the aim client, it is a pain to have all these different clients open all the time so I will not be using the aim messenger service again. Everyone who has me on there lists please take note of this my icq #11896187 I will continue to use icq until aol starts to ban other clients from using this as well. Anyone who wants to join me more power to you but I cannot continue to upgrade my software on an hourly basis.This is not about ad revenue for me, like I said. Aol can do what it wants just so long as it knows they are alienating people.
Posted by Neophyre on Feb. 08 2002,05:31
ICQ is owned by AOL.f001
Posted by ic0n0 on Feb. 08 2002,05:34
| Quote (ic0n0 @ 07 Feb. 2002,15:30) |
| Everyone who has me on there lists please take note of this my icq #11896187 I will continue to use icq until aol starts to ban other clients from using this as well. |
I know fool
Posted by editor on Feb. 08 2002,05:36
| Quote (ic0n0 @ 07 Feb. 2002,21:30) |
| I know aol has a right to block my access it is there program and all but it’s not the ads that bother me it’s the fact that I have to use 4 different clients to get what I want and this is to much a hassle, once again this is not about the ads, if trillian added ads to trillian and gave the income to aol I wouldn’t care but I am now refusing to use aim, never again! I will not use the aim client, it is a pain to have all these different clients open all the time so I will not be using the aim messenger service again. Everyone who has me on there lists please take note of this my icq #11896187 I will continue to use icq until aol starts to ban other clients from using this as well. Anyone who wants to join me more power to you but I cannot continue to upgrade my software on an hourly basis. This is not about ad revenue for me, like I said. Aol can do what it wants just so long as it knows they are alienating people. |
Errr, to me, Ic0n0 seems to have been aware of that fact.
"I will continue to use icq until aol starts to ban other clients from using this as well. Anyone who wants to join me more power to you"
Would you like to give it another throw?
Posted by Neophyre on Feb. 08 2002,05:36
okay, then why do you call it a boycott of AOL, when ur still using an AOL product?as long as they know ur using something of theirs, they don't care.
hmmmm.. but you already knew that, huh?
Posted by editor on Feb. 08 2002,05:37
at least we can agree on something, Ic0n0! Finally!edit/added ", Ic0n0".
Posted by ic0n0 on Feb. 08 2002,05:41
icq may be owned by aol but the programing is not a product of aol.
Posted by veistran on Feb. 08 2002,05:47
although the later version of icq are getting lamer and lamer just like AIM/AOL
Posted by askheaves on Feb. 08 2002,05:49
Same issue here. I'm sick of, every week, having to scan the trillian site waiting for an update that fixes AIM. I suppose it's the same thing they did when MSN tried for interoperability and everybody raised a fuss... only now since it's some undergroundish type group, so it's cool.Kind of funny, I guess. All I wanted was one app to run the bunch of different clients.
Posted by ic0n0 on Feb. 08 2002,05:50
The later icq's did become bloatware.
Posted by veistran on Feb. 08 2002,05:54
I'd guess a very large percentage of trillians user-base wouldn't even bother to use AIM were it not for trillian, I know I wouldn't.as far as scanning for updates, the auto-update notification thingy has worked well for me.
Posted by TheTaxMan on Feb. 08 2002,16:40
The problem lies in everyone knowing people who only use AIM. Hence, I do also, for I want to talk with my friends. THey know they have such a corner on the market they can do anything they want.
Posted by RadioActive on Feb. 08 2002,21:58
u use icq, but i use miranda not mirabilis icq. and i like the idea of "nightly buidls" (updating daily) because most bugs are fixed by the next morning.
Posted by solid on Feb. 09 2002,04:55
Well AOL can't buy IRC or MSN.They can host their own IRC servers, and I'd try to stay k/g-lined there.
Posted by Dysorderia on Feb. 09 2002,05:49
| Quote (solid @ 08 Feb. 2002,20:55) |
| Well AOL can't buy IRC or MSN. They can host their own IRC servers, and I'd try to stay k/g-lined there. |
MSN has an IRC server? 
Posted by ASCIIMan on Feb. 09 2002,06:40
I didn't start using AIM until about a year ago... (I had been resisting for at least two years.) When I found out it was by far the easiest way to contact pretty much all my friends on campus here, or find out where they were if I couldn't find them. I stopped using AIM and started searching for another AIM-compatible IM client when the updated version of AIM decided to have a massive memory leak on my machine which would cause it to crash about once a day or so, after consuming about 400-500 MB or so of memory (luckily I was running 2k, my roommate wasn't as lucky though, running 98 and having the same AIM memory leak problem). I finally got pissed off enough after about two weeks of this that I resolved to never use AIM again except through something a little less stable - and less annoying. I found trillian, and have been using it ever since. I WILL NOT go back to AIM, so if trillian dies, oh well... I guess you'll have to find some other way to contact me. (I have an old ICQ account that's been sitting around for awhile, so if I ditch AOL, I'm still on it... Should be in my profile.)edit - One last note, if any of you are still using trillian, trillian .724 came out and is now using a patching system so you shouldn't have to reinstall the whole thing anymore for the updates. (Currently it's at .724c)