Add ICQ New support?

[TheSacco]

Description of the Feature

With ICQ New having shut down for good, it would be nice if you could use Retro Aim Server to revive it.

Use Case

This feature would be nice because you could use the latest version of ICQ available, which doesn't have that retro feel, but at least it has a nicer UI and works natively on newer systems (even tough Windows XP is still supported!).

Potential Challenges

The problem is that if ICQ New doesn't use Oscar as its protocol for communication it would be a MAJOR hurdle to implement it.

Additional Information

That said, I know that ICQ support on Retro Aim Server is still in its early days (I myself have tried using newer clients like 5.0) but I hope that now that every classic AIM version is supported it could get more attention. I will try to look into ICQ New and see if I discover anything potentially interesting about it. Finally, I would like to note that I can be a tester for ICQ.

[mk6i]

I intend to support as many OSCAR-based ICQ clients as I can, but I doubt I’ll add support for non-OSCAR clients. PRs welcome, of course. There’s still a lot of work that remains for AIM.

[TheSacco]

Yeah I understand that you wouldn't want to implement a whole new undocumented protocol just for ICQ New, but maybe support for it could come in the future if its also OSCAR-based. Note: unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with programming (especially in Go) so for now I won't be able to contribute to the code.

[deepend-tildeclub]

honestly I'd be happy if 98a and 99b would be supported. the newer clients sucked IMHO anyways.

[TheSacco]

Yes support for most ICQ versions would be very nice

[veselcraft]

ICQ New uses Web-based WIM protocol, same as Mail.ru Agent since 2016 until it's shutdown. So, it actually should support both modern "Agent" and old one, which is really different protocol and project whatsoever

[VasylSamoilov]

@TheSacco @deepend-tildeclub Implemented and merged in #171 , further discussion and testing in #182 (comment) - please give it a try. It may be on a rare side of cooked, but should mostly work.