Talk:Hotline Connect

This article is very small and should be merged into the main Hotline Communications article. There is not really any good justification for it having its own separate page. purpledogsun

Did anyone else use this way back in the day? This was my first taste of p2p downloads/mp3s. Does anyone remember The Weasel and his server? This was one of the most interesting times in piracy too. In hotline, you could get anything from virus libraries to pirated software to mp3s to porn to legit stuff. Not that any of it was ethical, but I remember it being a sespool of free crap. Please tell me someone else remembers those days! —Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeSmack (talk • contribs)

It seems like the external links to Hotsprings and OpenSprings give 403 errors, and the link to mhxd gives a "DNS entry not found" error. Anybody care to find out what's happened with these sites? I think the new hotline company - hotsprings also failed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.168.154.119 (talk • contribs)

A Fresh New Start
I substantially edited the entire article since I thought it wasn't very well-organized. The new summary is fairly simple and to-the-point with regard to the topic at hand. Suggestions for sections to add:


 * Legal trouble surrounding Hotline/AppWarrior
 * Details on what using Hotline is actually like (user accounts, privs, messaging, private chats, etc.)
 * Unofficial clients/servers such as HX(D)
 * Hotline icon culture (Bad Moon Labs, SoSueMe, TrainYard, etc.)

If you want to write about the legal battles, I suggest reading multiple sources on the issue. For reference, check the link that I've provided in the external links section of the article.

-- SHRIZZA 11:09, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I use to use it
Joe The Dragon 22:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * A lot of sites made you click on porn ads to get in.
 * On some sites you needed to upload and download at the same time or you got kicked off
 * A lot of site had long wait times before the download started
 * On some site you had to pay to be able to download.
 * The download speeds on some sites when really slow at times and got slower ass more people stated to download at the same time some sties had good download speeds. But bittorrent is better now days.

Article gives a bad impression
I think this article gives a bad impression, based on some bad apples of Hotline. Most of my usage of this software involved using it in much the same way as IRC is now used for (warez aside, I guess), for logging on to a place where I can discuss a particular topic. For example, a lot of (Mac) software houses had hotline servers that their developers hung around on, and the file repositories had stuff like patches, artwork, etc. Also, lots of communities setup their hotline servers, like clans in gat mes. This stuff really needs more mention, because the current article puts Hotline as a just a terrible thing whose only goal and use was for illegal activity, whereas I remember it as a a network of thriving communities, devoted to various topics. Myrdred 05:03, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * you were the exception
 * I disagree that Myrdred's experience was unusual.    I know of at least one server that grew out of its warez roots and to this day, in 2013, hosts a very tight knit international community.

Wikiproject Computing
I have removed the WikiProject tag, as this article is either a redirect or deleted. If you oppose, please restore the tag. Thank you, fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:03, 30 March 2009 (UTC)