{"id":1999,"date":"2007-08-17T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T08:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2007-08-17T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T08:50:18","slug":"im-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"IM problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the complaints these days on Skype, etc. I&#8217;ve started to get pissed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stop whining, people :) You have decided to use ONE service, it&#8217;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 &#8211; and what will you do, when the jabber server you&#8217;re using dies? The Jabber network might be distributed, but you need a registration on the server you&#8217;re using and to evade the problem you need a lot of registrations (which doesn&#8217;t solve the problem of communicating with others, who have only one registration).<br \/>\n(which reminds me, with Nikola Kolev I think we spoke on having jabber.minus273.org on two separate machines, but we forgot it later)<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; it&#8217;s not like there&#8217;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&#8217;s email and if it&#8217;s urgent &#8211; phones. Every single service has downtime, it&#8217;s a fact of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the complaints these days on Skype, etc. I&#8217;ve started to get pissed&#8230; Stop whining, people :) You have decided to use ONE service, it&#8217;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 &#8211; and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}