IM problems

by Vasil Kolev

Around the complaints these days on Skype, etc. I’ve started to get pissed…

Stop whining, people :) You have decided to use ONE service, it’s normal for it to have some downtime. The same is with ICQ, the same is with even Jabber, which gets recommended by some people as a replacement – and what will you do, when the jabber server you’re using dies? The Jabber network might be distributed, but you need a registration on the server you’re using and to evade the problem you need a lot of registrations (which doesn’t solve the problem of communicating with others, who have only one registration).
(which reminds me, with Nikola Kolev I think we spoke on having jabber.minus273.org on two separate machines, but we forgot it later)

So – it’s not like there’s only one way to communicate, why not diversify? I myself am using icq, msn, jabber and yahoo (not counting irc :) ), and in the end there’s email and if it’s urgent – phones. Every single service has downtime, it’s a fact of life.

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