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Remember when all the major IM platforms supported xmpp and you could just use pidgin/adium/trillian/your client of choice for everything at once? That was a f
by MiddleEndian 11y ago
Remember when all the major IM platforms supported xmpp and you could just use pidgin/adium/trillian/your client of choice for everything at once?
That was a fantastic time...
- JBReefer 11y agoI remember it as a bunch of applications that supported half of the standards, were buggy, and had clunky fits-none-well UX
- lj3 11y agoI feel that way about every windows and linux app, though. Adium on OS X was brilliantly designed. And if you didn't like the design, there were tons of skins for it.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoSkinning support != user experience. That said, Adium is one of the best designed OSS apps I've used.
- dmix 11y agoAdium OTR on the other-hand had a really bad UX. So I'm happy TextSecure/Signal figured that out.
- muddi900 11y agoBut the solution was to come up with something better, not something worse.
- anonymoushn 11y agoMy current situation where I need a bunch of different apps to IM different people is a big improvement compared to those dark times.
- Malician 11y agoPidgin's facebook plugin doesn't seem to parse thumbs up or images, but works well enough other than that. Google hangouts/chat plugin works well, too.