TheRaven64's Journal: MSN Messenger Broken (Again)

Today, I was testing my Jabber client (which now has a really buggy Alpha build released) and I realised that none of my MSN contacts were visible. A short examination of this problem revealed that the entire MSN network seems to have gone down for the second time in 12 hours. Nice to see such good reliability from MS.

I would feel more smug, if not for the fact that my Jabber server (theravensnest.org) was unavailable for a few hours last night due to the fact that the idiots who run the upstream router seem unable to keep it connected for more than a few days at a time. Fortunately, this only affected about 2 people, unlike the MSN glitch.

In other news, my client is now in a semi-usable state, and I am finally able to ditch Psi (which has a habit of deciding to eat all of my CPU after it's been running for a few minutes, probably due to the pile of bugware known as Qt for Mac). In the near future I will begin porting it to GNUStep, which should just require translating the OS X nib files into GNUStep nibs (nibs are serialised object files used for user interface definitions on NeXTStep-derived platforms).