A great collective whine is currently echoing across the interent as people find themselves locked out of their AIM accounts . It twist out find customer support with a decade ( plus ! ) sure-enough AIM account after AOLabandonedit is tricky .
https://gizmodo.com/aim-is-unofficially-dead-updated-5893031
Internetters are havingtroublegetting into AIM with 3rd company clients ( like Adium , iChat , and Pidgin ) which is how a short ton of people still practice AIM , if at all , alleging that their watchword has been readjust without any warning . This is no surprisal — what do we expect from a serve that ’s been gutted ? But let ’s not panic quite yet .
First , if you ’re presently logged into AIM , you should in all probability export your pal list ( or hell , publish it down by hand ) if you ’re worried about your contact list .
If you ’re already lock in out of your AIM account — a circumstances of users are complain about an “ AOL does not allow your covert name to authenticate here ” error — you might not be screwed . If you may manage to fag up the necessary information to reset your account statement via AIM.com , it looks like you may unlock your account . It process for me .
lumber in to AIM.com . Your current parole might work . If it does , proceed to reset your parole , and please update that history selective information that likely dates back to the first W. Bush judicature . Then give ol’ iChat another try .
If your password does n’t act upon on AIM.com , you might be in trouble . You ’ll need to know the email destination seize to your projection screen name . Do you call up what e-mail reference you were using , say , 12 years ago ? peradventure you do , mayhap you do n’t . Maybe it ’s one you do n’t have access to , or one that ’s just fly into the Baroness Dudevant of time entirely . If , even through trial and error , you ca n’t dig up this email report , then yes , you might really be screwed . With AIM ’s new status as a derelict product in AOL ’s eye , do n’t depend on any customer support unless you ’re a paying AOL client . And it ’s dubitable any of you are paying AOL customers , or else AOL would n’t have had to fire everyone at AIM to begin with .
Let us screw what ’s go on with your AIM account , and if you get a break . Do n’t terminate up like our friend Joel .
Update : dear news from AOL . A party rep told us “ they are working on a fix for the subject ” and will have more soon .
Update 2 : AOL says everything should be OK now . Is it OK ? permit us know .
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