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Neopopulas

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So i'm really in love with AIM again, i love the way it works and i also love the way it looks. More than anything else though i like the options it gives.

I like the fact you can right-click and save the history of a conversation as a html file. I've looked at a TON of other messengers and it seems like none of them have the same options.

Realistically i would love to keep using AIM, but we all know that its impossible to be totally sure it'll last like this forever, or if it'll be up or down.

I was wondering if anyone knew of any other messengers that worked like AIM, with the ability for rich text markdown and saving the conversation history. I've looked for weeks but i can't find any that work the same anymore.

Posted on: 05-05 4:32 am
Asha	[Quote] Have you tried Pidgin?

Posted on: 05-06 1:35 am
Asha	[Quote] I'd like to add something, and this might be of interest to anyone who cares. There is no reason this could not be a front end to a Spectrum2 Server, and you be able to chat with any server Type, Spectrum2 Supports. So you could continue to use your AIM client, to chat with Discord, or Skype.

Neopopulas

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Asha Said:
'I'd like to add something, and this might be of interest to anyone who cares. There is no reason this could not be a front end to a Spectrum2 Server, and you be able to chat with any server Type, Spectrum2 Supports. So you could continue to use your AIM client, to chat with Discord, or Skype.'

So how does this work?

Basically i use AIM with one, maybe two other people, we use AIM to collaborate in some writing work. We use it because its simple, and allows us to save logs as html, which are easily archived.

And also seemingly a thing a lot of other chat programs don't see to have. We're not to fussed about how the server works, which is why i'd host it myself if i could.

tonyshowoff

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Asha Said:
'I'd like to add something, and this might be of interest to anyone who cares. There is no reason this could not be a front end to a Spectrum2 Server, and you be able to chat with any server Type, Spectrum2 Supports. So you could continue to use your AIM client, to chat with Discord, or Skype.'

Except that'd be basically as difficult as creating another server all together. The differences between XMPP and how they work are huge, and you wouldn't be able to use your AIM client like normal, because some things AIM has XMPP does not support and many things XMPP has, AIM does not support, there's often not even ways to craft together similar features across services.

By creating something like Phoenix, it can be expanded upon to further work with AIM the best way possible, but if it was just an XMPP gateway, it'd be forever stunted.

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