No not again
No it’s not going to be about poop or doctors today. That’s not all I talk about here at cybrpunk.com. Today I’m going to bitch about chatting in Google’s Gmail. At first I loved the idea of the simple tiny chat window in my favorite free webmail service. And I still do mostly. Mostly. But it seems like ever since they started this integration with LAME… er… AIM, nothing has worked as well since. People show up as online but not able to receive messages. For example:
me: So have you tried Soulstorm yet?
Mike did not receive your chat.
me: What?
Mike did not receive your chat.
me: What do you mean that Mike did not receive my chat?
Mike did not receive your chat.
me: Now your just mocking me aren’t you?
Mike did not receive your chat.
me: you bitch
Mike did not receive your chat.
Obviously trying to reason with the Gmail chat doesn’t work as you can see above. Neither does name calling it seems. I know that Yoshi has problems with it too, but he probably has some super elite custom software that interfaces with Google directly to talk to their satellites to track who’s daring to speak to him. Or so I like to imagine.
Of course my biggest complaint about chat is that most of my friends are asleep when I’m awake. But I can’t think of a way to blame Google or AOL for that.
All i use mine for is to check my gmail, which i’m horrible at. No one I know uses google talk.
I use adium, which is just like trillian for the mac. I have that issue with gtalk all the time. i hate google.
I can’t wait to see Android. I bet it will have the same chat built in. And will probably work even less of the time….
I very rarely get “so and so did not receive your message”, but it DOES like to disconnect for no good reason.
Google Mail works. AIM service merges with Google Mail. Google Mail fails. Yeah, like we never saw THAT one coming. :)