On: AIM will be discontinued today

[esotericsean]

You'll still be able to use AIM if you setup a private server? I need to look into this.

[veridies → esotericsean]

As nyolfen mentioned, XMPP is just a competing, decentralized protocol for AIM-like chat. It has a similar feature set and works with most third-party AIM clients.

[aninteger → esotericsean]

If you ever get around to making a private OSCAR based server and publish the code somewhere please let us know.

[nyolfen → esotericsean]

no, xmpp is not aim