Is still Hotline a thing?

pfuentes69

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I must say I didn't use this at the time, and I discovered Hotline just recently.
I installed the client and connected to some servers... no other users online.

I al tried to setup a Linux server, but so far the two I found I wasn't able to compile (seem to be a quite old code).

Is there any active server nowadays?
 
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pfuentes69 said:
I must say I didn't use this at the time, and I discovered Hotline just recently.
I installed the client and connected to some servers... no other users online.

I al tried to setup a Linux server, but so far the two I found I wasn't able to compile (seem to be a quite old code).

Is there any active server nowadays?
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If I remember correctly, Hotline was the "predecessor" to gnutella or some such. Not in use anymore as far as I can tell.
 
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Sure is! Macintosh garden has one and the tracker still responds with 20 servers

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Alf Torp said:
I installed Hotline on my G5 1.8, but I can't connect to macintoshgarden.org or misfire.applefritter.com. They're both timing out for me. I get in to other hotline servers though, so the client is working...
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Ya, I think the MG one is now the system7 today one, and I wasnt able to connect to applefritter either. but still lots of other good ones out there.
 
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Ya, I think the MG one is now the system7 today one, and I wasnt able to connect to applefritter either. but still lots of other good ones out there.
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It looks like the Applefritter reboot of eWorld is down too. I'll PM Tom and see if he can get those back up...
 
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So I got a bit hooked with this and I created a server using Mobius in a Linux VM in AWS
The server is hotline.retrobyt.es and is in the hltracker.com list

For now it's just freshly deployed and I'm checking how it works, but if you want to test it and report, it would be appreciated!
 
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