ICQ will stop working from June 26

Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by weinzierl on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:32PM (#40467792)

Same for me but the day I will really cry a little will be when mIRC dies. It was my introduction to instant effortless free worldwide communication. Of course I haven't used it for decades but it calms me that it is still very alive.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by jan_Sate on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:37PM (#40467847)

Unlike ICQ, mIRC is just an IRC client and even if it dies, the IRC networks would remain accessible using other IRC clients. That said it'd be a pity if mIRC dies.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by RankingMember on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:38PM (#40467866)

I'd hope Khaled would open source it if he decides to give it up

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by freedomben on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:51PM (#40469303)

This is starting to feel even more important now that HexChat is over.[1]

Is anyone aware of maintained forks or a revival effort?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326630

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by okasaki on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:29PM (#40469675)

IRC is very simple. I used to connect with telnet if a client wasn't available.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by nick238 on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:37PM (#40467852)

Isn't mIRC just a client for IRC (a standard), but ICQ is centralized? Or are there some "mIRC"-branded servers out there that run popular IRC channels?

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by aleksandrm on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:39PM (#40467881)

Correct, mIRC is just one of many clients for an IRC protocol.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by weinzierl on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:07PM (#40468830)

Yes, yes, just a client, but for me it was the first interface to whole new world, so I will never forget it.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by edm0nd on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:12PM (#40468900)

slaps you with a trout

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by alluro2 on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:20PM (#40469605)

I genuinely LOLed, thanks for that! :) What a flashback.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by userbinator on Friday May 24, 2024 @10:46PM (#40472264)

I was reminded of that when analysing the Skype (now Teams) protocol and found that one of the domains it uses was trouter.io.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by Freedom2 on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:51PM (#40468649)

mIRC has the same chance of dying as Irssi. As in none.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by kirenida on Friday May 24, 2024 @05:32PM (#40470655)

I remember choosing irrsi over bitchx because the latter was "too complicated" for me at the time.

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Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 by bitwize on Saturday May 25, 2024 @12:33PM (#40476061)

IRC will never die. I met my wife on IRC ~25 years ago, it'll still be here when we're old.

Or at least it will die like USENET died: becoming only of interest to spammers and pornographers.

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