ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

ICQ will stop working on June 26. It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn’t know anything of it still remained.

  • @Murdoc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    That just reminded me of something I tried that was similar, I think it was called Visual Chat? It looked like a 2D cartoon, but each person controlled an avatar and could move around and talk to each other, go to other rooms, change expression, gesture, etc.

    Microsoft bought whatever that was and completely ruined it, just like they ruin everything else they buy.

    It’s like the Midas touch: they make it shiny, expensive, and of little use.

    • @bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      You probably mean Comic Chat. It was actually just an IRC client, and I think it’s still usable (but frustratingly ineffective) today. But there is a website where you can convert IRC logs to it, I think.