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> One thing I miss from ICQ was the ability to have messages stored on the server and delivered next time your friend logged in. None of the popular messaging a
by laumars 11y ago
> One thing I miss from ICQ was the ability to have messages stored on the server and delivered next time your friend logged in. None of the popular messaging apps today do that.
You mean aside Skype, Facebook messenger, Slack and Whatsapp? And those are just the 4 services I currently (and reluctantly) use. So there's going to be others I've not mentioned.
- mlvljr 11y agoHas Skype really learned that in the last year or so? As it sure was not the case before that (you could even check, if someone briefly was online, while you were absent from your machine, running skype, via seeing the "waiting" icons near messages disappear).
- jandrese 11y agoWeird, FBM gives me the "user is not available" message when they're not online. Skype for business (AKA Lync) absolutely does not store messages, although I've not used the consumer version.
- laumars 11y ago> Weird, FBM gives me the "user is not available" message when they're not online. I used it all the time to send messages to my wife when she's not online; knowing she'll pick it up when she's available. In fact we tend to use it like e-mail in that regard. > Skype for business (AKA Lync) absolutely does not store messages, although I've not used the consumer version. Well not storing messages is one of the sales points of Skype for Business; if I recall correctly. Or at the very least encryption for confidentiality (which I know doesn't mean messages can't be stored). But in any case, the regular consumer version of Skype does store messages like I'd suggested. And like with FB Messenger, it's a feature of Skype I use frequently.