I found this website a long time ago and joined the Discord group. But I decided to leave because I didn't have any friends. I've been checking out Frutiger Aero Archive for a while now. I remember this website didn't have a forum back then. I'm still hesitant to join the forum, but I really want forum members to know about this website!
This website is Escargot. All information is available here. Unfortunately, the Discord server has been shut down for some reason. This project often faces difficulties (as can be seen here). Perhaps someone is interested and willing to help? Or just give it a try?
Escargot's kind of sketchy. I've been apart of the community for several years and I can safely say that the people who are running it /now/ are money-hungry and do not care about the community but only to get their rent paid in time. I also can't recommend any other alternatives since the other one currently in existence is not open-source and I can't endorse it.
Feel free to PM me for any inquiries or any questions, I'll try to reply in due time.
nullification wrote:Escargot's kind of sketchy. I've been apart of the community for several years and I can safely say that the people who are running it /now/ are money-hungry and do not care about the community but only to get their rent paid in time. I also can't recommend any other alternatives since the other one currently in existence is not open-source and I can't endorse it.
I was talking about it with someone on WLM last night too. I refuse to believe Escargot is really all that sketchy like people claim, but I wish people stopped making hysteria about all of it and understood the fact that they need rent money. I don't endorse CrossTalk either cause I don't think they're any better themselves. At this point I might as well just MAKE my own MSNP server for people to use just to avoid this madness.
Escargot's kind of sketchy. I've been apart of the community for several years and I can safely say that the people who are running it /now/ are money-hungry and do not care about the community but only to get their rent paid in time. I also can't recommend any other alternatives since the other one currently in existence is not open-source and I can't endorse it.
I was talking about it with someone on WLM last night too. I refuse to believe Escargot is really all that sketchy like people claim, but I wish people stopped making hysteria about all of it and understood the fact that they need rent money. I don't endorse CrossTalk either cause I don't think they're any better themselves. At this point I might as well just MAKE my own MSNP server for people to use just to avoid this madness.
They're sketchy, trust me. I've been apart of that community since it's creation (around 2017) and the people who were involved (e.g. valtron, OHTITG) were more trustable than Tony and his patsies who are in his place. You do not need $2000 to host a revival service, let alone register it onto a company and use copyrighted trademarks to promote it.
Not only that, the owner was running a Ponzi scheme of sorts selling "shares" of the company and claiming it would turn out into profit, exploiting teenagers who didn't know any better. CrossTalk is not trustable either as they're even more closed than Escargot is. If they're going to release their source code, doesn't matter what license? That's alright, but just claiming that you're going to "release" it and then basically delaying it as long as you can doesn't equate, my friend.
I'm working on something similiar, a reverse engineering project of sorts with other people for MySpaceIM, AOL, MSN Explorer... We do not plan to sell ourselves out and put everything behind a Patreon. Everyone's gonna get the chance to access it without shilling some money out. That's how should it work for passion projects. Not like Escargot, that is.
P.S: All you're gonna need to host a reverse engineered server is probably five bucks at best for something amatorial. If you got a heavy workload? Maybe twenty. If you want to have something serious, a dedicated server and not a VPS? A hundred at best. You're never gonna justify the thousand buck price, you can look around yourself :-P
Feel free to PM me for any inquiries or any questions, I'll try to reply in due time.
Currently busy with Computer Engineering studies
