A few weeks ago AOL promoted the Feed Crier AIM bot to a special status on their network. The idea behind it was to create better service for our users, and in particular make it easier for new users to sign up for Feed Crier. Unfortunately, there’s been a few glitches in the process.
For most of the last two weeks, you’ve been unable to talk to the AIM bot. Anything you say to it is greeted with a message of either “Feed Crier is taking a short nap” or “ACK! IM BOT : feedcrier is broken.” Let me assure you, Feed Crier isn’t broken. It’s humming along just fine, and FC users on other IM networks aren’t experiencing any problems. Once we get this glitch worked out with AOL, I’m sure everything will be fine, but for now, I’d suggest you move your Feed Crier subscriptions to Jabber or MSN.
If that’s something you want to do, email me personally at adam AT feedcrier.com and let me know your AIM screenname and your name on the other network. I’ll need to do some checking to verify that you actually own both accounts, and then I’ll move your subscriptions over.
Hopefully we’ll have this all resolved by the end of the week.
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