MSN Sucks

Trejkaz — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:36:00 +1100

This has been a great week for MSN Messenger, hasn’t it?

The first I heard of it was about four days ago. Users of our Jabber server were reporting “issues with the MSN transport.” Upon inspection (it doesn’t take much… Psi says “Remote Server Error”, which in Jabber.ZIM speak means “not our problem”) it turned out to be Microsoft’s problem.

Scattered reports of MSN being down then flooded in over the next few days. Whirlpool forums alone had about a dozen reports of outages. Google News has enough coverage to sink a small fleet. Microsoft themselves have finally been forced to admit that they’re having problems, which they normally strenuously deny. :-)

All in all it’s been pretty funny. Why?

It’s been funny because over 10 million users have finally realised that reliance on centralised systems is a bad idea. That’s right, everyone on Jabber servers over the past few days, have enjoyed a network which cannot go down. We have been laughing our goddamned arses off at you MSN users, because you continue to love the service even while it’s down and can’t connect. We think that kind of dependence, whereas extremely sad, is even funnier than it is sad. Ha, ha, ha. Suck it.

And while the service continues to flicker on and off over the next few days, please make an effort to remember us Jabber users. Because after all, what would we do without our entertainment? We’re counting on you, guys.

Trejkaz out.

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