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Plzrmeister 67M  
2430 posts
1/18/2020 6:20 am

Last Read:
1/21/2020 5:18 am

Welcome to Your New Instant Messenger!


Blog is in comments.

APB .... If you don't want ALT to delete words from your blog, post your actual blog as the first comment. You're welcome.

Make Women Female Again


Plzrmeister 67M  
10352 posts
1/18/2020 6:40 am

Will miracles never cease? It appears ALT is making an attempt to improve the IM.

So I see. When one clicks on the IM icon, one sees a new box saying Welcome to Your New Instant Messenger! with a couple of explanations/directions.

One tells you about being able to IM a person from any screen if there is an icon on their profile showing they're signed onto the IM.

The other tells you about having received an IM. The third icon from the left on the top of your screen will indicate an incoming IM, regardless of where within ALT you might be.

Yeah, but we've been around ALT long enough to know there's a vast difference between the way things are supposed to work and the way they actually do.

Good point. Although I'm taking things with a grain of salt, I am at least glad ALT is apparently attempting to make the IM system functional and user friendly.

They need to deep six the need to use 'points' to have an IM conversation.

Uh, yeah. That sucks for standard members. People having to accumulate or buy points is a pain in the ass. People comment on blogs, not to add to the conversation, but for points ....

And flood the blogs with BS blogs for points ... How fun is that for everyone?

ALT has a long way to go and many problems & deficiencies to address and fix. Perhaps this IM business indicates they're at least trying ......

Make Women Female Again


Daddyslilpunkin 47F
3470 posts
1/18/2020 7:58 am

Well look at you looking at Alt as half full

I have had that notification on my IM for about three weeks. Every single time you open IM you get it. It's like they think we can't remember something for more than thirty seconds LOL.

IM does seem to work a little better. You can initiate conversations, but at least four times now it has cacked out in the middle of a conversation. I'm still thinking with make the princess's cam room the official chat location

You found parts of me I didn’t know existed and in you I found a love I no longer believed was real.


Plzrmeister replies on 1/18/2020 8:18 am:
Went momentarily brain dead ...

Yeah .... Comment is below.

Buf716 58M
25 posts
1/18/2020 8:16 am

Let's hope so. Seems every time I spend points to respond to an IM, I get nothing. Dead silence. I go on cam for those who would like to contact me but even that is seriously iffy. Huge lags, Drops, no sound, Ect


Plzrmeister replies on 1/18/2020 8:23 am:
Seems every time I spend points to respond to an IM, I get nothing.

Yeah, the point system is worthless....

Unless you're trying to make people as frustrated and angry as possible .... Then it works perfectly.

Using the IM needs to be a free feature like it used to be.

Absolutely!

Even the cam is seriously iffy. Huge lags, Drops, no sound, Etc.

Shocking!

ALT applications not working well? That is a shocker..... NOT!

Plzrmeister 67M  
10352 posts
1/18/2020 8:16 am

Every single time you open IM you get it.

G'morning slim.... Yeah, and I suppose that'll continue forever. It provides new members information.

Slim! What up? Yep .... The pop-up is going to be standard operating procedure from now on I'd wager.

IM does seem to work a little better.

Well look at you looking at ALT as half full..... LOL


Smart ass! Be careful, cuz Becky will bitch slap you in a second.

Cacked out in the middle of a conversation.

How odd (standard) is that? Rome, nor a functional & dependable ALT IM, is not made in one day (Year? Decade?)....

I did mention a grain of salt......

Make Women Female Again


obeablepet 63M

1/18/2020 9:37 am

nice read and thanks for the points


Plzrmeister replies on 1/18/2020 1:21 pm:
I knew someone would be by and comment for the points.

LOL .... Yep and there may be more.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do for 'points'.

Good job ALT! Great idea with the fucking points.....

ammoncleveland 64M/64F

1/18/2020 1:56 pm

The IM could be perfect, but it does not matter if the only people on it are fakes and scammers.


Plzrmeister replies on 1/18/2020 2:27 pm:
That is a valid point.

Fuck! Don't use the word 'point'. Go wash your mouth out with soap.

That is a valid observation .... Better?

Very valid. Even given the overabundance of fakes and scammers here, there are actually some real people on ALT who sign on to the IM.

Don't you only IM people with a Gold account?

Yes, if their profiles aren't blank or scream "I'm fake, I'm fake and am loving you till the rest of my life."

Yeah, those profiles sort of put a damper on things.

Ya think?

lighthouse4297 56F
1680 posts
1/18/2020 4:39 pm

I never go on I.M. But good luck to everyone else. Smiles L


Plzrmeister replies on 1/19/2020 5:34 am:
L !!!! You're visiting our blog again!

Yeah .... I've missed your commentary! I remember you're not an IM user.

I think it was feeling like a rabbit in a cage full of snakes....

Given all the nincompoops, morons and rude & crude imbeciles on ALT, that's a pretty good analogy.

Good ..... Errrrr Great to hear from you again.

Sure is L .... Don't be a stranger!

daddy2fuckuup2 64M

1/18/2020 6:01 pm

At least if the IM worked as advertised I'd get a reply from a fake or scammer the first time because they would really be there and would soon discover what they were and eliminate them. Instead I end up sending lots of useless messages to IM ghosts pissing away points I try to get through genuine participation.
AND when I finally find someone worth a chat and have spent the points happily, the IM craps out and we never get to finish a productive chat.
I really haven't noticed any improvement, and that is from someone who actually paid for membership many years ago. Not now.


Plzrmeister replies on 1/19/2020 5:43 am:
I really haven't noticed any improvement.

Again the theory of how the IM is supposed to work and how it actually does work.

I've had the same thing happen. Get a conversation going and then poof, the IM quits functioning.

Being a Gold and only contacting Golds makes reigniting the conversation a little easier. I can appreciate the futility of that happening to standards members though.

Yeah, Is a functional IM system really that hard to put into place????? It worked pretty damn well a few years back... Not perfect by any means, but it seems to progressively get worse, not better.

I know. People have been throwing their hands up and walking away from ALT in droves.... One can only take so much frustration with the entire site.

Thanks for dropping by and the comments.

Indeed ..... Have a good one.

Daddyslilpunkin 47F
3470 posts
1/21/2020 3:45 am

    Quoting ammoncleveland:
    The IM could be perfect, but it does not matter if the only people on it are fakes and scammers.
Ammon, I have been wondering this for months and months, so thought I would ask. You comment on every blog post, and magazine post that Alt is the single worst thing ever. There is nothing redemptive, there are no real people, it's a shit site. So why do you remain?

Is it only to spread the word that Alt is useless? It seems like you despise everything about the site, the members, the platform, and the functionality. So why not just close the tab and not return?

You found parts of me I didn’t know existed and in you I found a love I no longer believed was real.


Plzrmeister replies on 1/21/2020 4:13 am:
Well just blurt it out there why don't ya?

That cleanse has fired our buddy up ..... No muffler.


She does have a point.

And ALT does have a way of aggravating people endlessly.


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