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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Malte279 on April 06, 2011, 07:58:33 AM

Title: Problems with MSN
Post by: Malte279 on April 06, 2011, 07:58:33 AM
In the last days I heard from several people on MSN that I appeared as offline to them even though my setting was online at the time. In return I also saw several people as offline though their setting too was online. Moreover on at least one ocassion I did not receive messages sent by someone and some of my own messages were returned to me as well even though both of us were showing as online at the time :bang
Given these problems it might be prudent these days to sometimes check out the "offline" people on MSN if you would like to talk to them just to see if they indeed are offline or if MSN is messing up (I doubt those I'm talking to and I would be the only ones affected by this).
Title: Problems with MSN
Post by: DarkHououmon on April 06, 2011, 08:48:25 AM
It's some kind of MSN glitch. It's happened to me before. I don't really know what to do about it.
Title: Problems with MSN
Post by: jansenov on April 06, 2011, 11:57:08 AM
It's up to Microsoft. Their products are full of problems, yet we still use them, out of inertia.
Title: Problems with MSN
Post by: Petrie. on April 06, 2011, 09:10:32 PM
I run into this problem a lot (ask the people I talk to).  Its frustrating..it looks like nobody is online, but yet everyone may be online.  I'm tempted to tell people to make a meebo account and chat through that.
Title: Problems with MSN
Post by: jansenov on April 07, 2011, 06:51:47 AM
I chat through meebo. It's easier to use than MSN.
Title: Problems with MSN
Post by: Malte279 on April 07, 2011, 07:20:20 AM
I have two questions about Meebo. Does it allow for discussions to be automatically saved, same as with MSN? And does it allow for microphone / webcam chats?
Title: Problems with MSN
Post by: Petrie. on April 08, 2011, 08:50:14 PM
No to microphone and webcams.  If you wanted to save a chat, just copy and paste into a Word document.