iChat + Chat Room = OcUK

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 17:18

Anyone notice that on iChat you can now create 'Chat Rooms' or has this always been there?

I have just created a room called 'OcUK' .....

Open iChat, log in with your me.com address and go to;
File > Go To Chat Room > Enter OcUK and Come in n lets chat.

EDIT: (For Info)
You can join AIM based Chat rooms with a AIM Based Name (@me.com, @mac.com or AIM)

Alpherah · 5 Oct 2011 at 17:59

No workey

says incomplete room name. Will try again later.

oli356 · 5 Oct 2011 at 19:28

Alpherah said:
No workey says incomplete room name. Will try again later.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 19:31

Strange, theres some people been in...

Skyboat · 5 Oct 2011 at 19:51

It worked for me earlier when I joined just to test if it connected.

I'm out tonight so I can't stay and chat

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 19:55

Skyboat said:
It worked for me earlier when I joined just to test if it connected.

I'm out tonight so I can't stay and chat

That's cool. I was testing it out to see if it would work and it does so in future I guess a few of us will lurk around in iChat :cool:

Brian8bit · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:06

mrbell1984 said:
...or has this always been there?

It's the XMPP (jabber) protocol that provides multi-user chat I think. Which has been in iChat since 2004, though not fully supported. So between then and now they've started fully supporting it.

Personally, I hate iChat. I hate most instant messaging clients. But anything specific to AOL I absolutely loathe.

Edit:

In October 2005, iChat received support for encrypted communications, but only for paid subscribers to Apple's MobileMe (then known as .Mac) service. These features are part of iChat 3.1, released as part of the Mac OS X v10.4.3 update. This version also added support for XMPP multi-user chat.

Marky · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:08

How do you use iChat? I've never used it before...

Do you need to have had a MobileMe account? It seems like the only options are AIM (Never used it) and MobileMe/Mac.com which I've never had before.

oli356 · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:11

Marky said:
How do you use iChat? I've never used it before...

Do you need to have had a MobileMe account? It seems like the only options are AIM (Never used it) and MobileMe/Mac.com which I've never had before.

I use my Gmail account

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:12

oli356 said:
I use my Gmail account

That's why you can't connect to the room thats for OcUK. I just read up on it and it fails to connect when you don't have a @me, @mac or AIM email addy.

oli356 · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:14

mrbell1984 said:
That's why you can't connect to the room thats for OcUK. I just read up on it and it fails to connect when you don't have a @me, @mac or AIM email addy.

Ahh right, I had a @me account I think as I had the mobileme trial.. Hmm

Brian8bit · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:15

Gmail should work. Aren't Gmail and Google Talk addresses the same? I don't use google services (bar search) so don't know. I know Google Talk uses the XMPP protocol though, so should be compatible.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:16

Everyone just create a @me.com account

it's worth it.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:16

Brian8bit said:
Gmail should work. Aren't Gmail and Google Talk addresses the same? I don't use google services (bar search) so don't know. I know Google Talk uses the XMPP protocol though, so should be compatible.

It's an AIM service not Google service. That's what the article said on the Apple support pages.

Brian8bit · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:19

mrbell1984 said:
It's an AIM service not Google service. That's what the article said on the Apple support pages.

Can you link me to the page please.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:29

Brian8bit said:
Can you link me to the page please.

Certainly.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2032774?start=0&tstart=0

Brian8bit · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:33

mrbell1984 said:
Certainly.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2032774?start=0&tstart=0

I see now. Thanks. Weird that they will use AIM for multi-user chat, when the only people who will be able to join is other AIM users. If they used XMPP for multi-user chat they would be able to allow a far broader range of people connecting using clients that support XMPP. So people using iChat, Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo and whatever else.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:37

Brian8bit said:
I see now. Thanks. Weird that they will use AIM for multi-user chat, when the only people who will be able to join is other AIM users. If they used XMPP for multi-user chat they would be able to allow a far broader range of people connecting using clients that support XMPP. So people using iChat, Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo and whatever else.

That's exactly my thought on it too. I would have thought that until reading that link from support.

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Oct 2011 at 18:30

Come into the chat room now to chat about iOS 5 GM / 10.7.2 GM + iCloud, iPhoto and much more!

You need a @mac.com ~ @me.com email address.

EDIT: no1 wants to join so may as well just close this thread