erfg12
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5 years ago Started working on this. Used a ListView initially, and labeled the users [OFF] and [ON]. Needs to change to a Treeview, and add an Offline 0/0 category too.
Since the chat system uses IRC, the buddy list does a /whois command to see if the user is online, and buddies are stored in the database.
istarian on reddit:
A good place to look might be the sourcecode to some AOL IM clients. naim, which was a command line client and miranda im (the old one, not miranda-ng) might be a good place to take a peek. I couldn't get the latter to work with the server mentioned, but miranda connects just fine if you read the directions on the phoenix im forums/site? about a couple of settings that need adjusting.
It's not like it's got much happening but it is a real server that exists.
I mean you can always just make your own basic chat server and just provide an AOL like look on the client side, but there's nothing like a genuine experience.
P.S. https://code.google.com/archive/p/dottoc/ ^ here's a .NET library, no idea if i's functional though.