Here again repeats the history of a week ago. The contact list is offline, and the cute ICQ System tells me that the 5.1 version of the protocol is no longer supported.
upd: Judging by the comments of users, the problem is observed in many. Suffer users from Russia and Ukraine. Identified problems with Adium, Pidgin. Miranda, QIP, R & Q in the ranks.
upd: By entze “ICQ in Mail.Ru works after reconnecting without updating, in addition they put a new assembly.”
upd: Makis solution habrahabr.ru/blogs/im/50986/#comment_1343622 (link to user comment) “I recently switched to icq-transport by uploading my contacts to gtalk.Here is an article that describes how to do it. In short, I’ll tell you the point: we put any client that supports work through transport, set up transport via gtalk, we launch our client and enjoy its work (I use pidgin, but unfortunately it’s not possible to install transport, so I had to install psi). The great advantage of this method is that the whole history of communication through im remains in your Google Mail. UPD: unfortunately the server, which is described in the article has not been working for a long time.I use headcounter.org.I would be glad if this method will help someone solve the problem of the inoperability of ICQ. ”
upd: Solution from fr3nzy “The solution with the TOR client will not only help pidgin. It seems that not all users of Habr know about TOR, or that TOR is under windows. Here you can download TOR. www.torproject.org/index.html.ru
After installation, it will be enough to select SOCKS proxy in the client connection settings, ip 127.0.0.1, port 9050.
Ps.If the user has FF, then the last utility from the TOP installer can be omitted.Otherwise, TOR will be used in FF.And as rightly noted in the comments, Google does not like it) "