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Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by azalemeth on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @07:34AM (#27831940)
Ahh, but MSN messenger was not the best of all chat clients in its day either. I remember advertisement aplenty, spam, terrible "candy bar" UIs and a password reset system that basically let others steal your account easily. I think I used the official client maybe twice at an upper limit.

Honestly, the best UI Microsoft ever invented were always those inside their video games. I still think AoE2 is hard to beat.

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Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by culopatin on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:38PM (#27835048)
I mean it was pretty cancerous but it was stable and simple to use. A list of your chats sorted by last activity. Towards the end you could even play games. Voice messages, gifs, etc. It was a free ms product from the early 2000s, in 20 years we should’ve gotten much further ahead, instead we went backwards
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