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But what about other projects? Back in the day there were multiple multi-protocol clients. Pidgin (or rather Gaim back then), Trillian, and others; now there'
by Sniffnoy 9y ago
But what about other projects? Back in the day there were multiple multi-protocol clients. Pidgin (or rather Gaim back then), Trillian, and others; now there's... maybe Franz, as cosmie mentions? Simply saying "Pidgin kind of died off" doesn't seem like enough of an explanation here; why aren't there more such projects popping up?
- user5994461 9y agoThey never worked properly. It takes years to develop and it's broken anytime the owner will change anything in their implementation. Even if you had the ultimate multi chat clients, noone cares about it. People use the official client that works just fine.
- quotemstr 9y agoAnd you've hit the nail on the head: there's just a lot less _demand_ for multi-protocol clients these days. Official clients are much better than they were in the 1990s. Like piracy: undesired use of a protocol is a service problem, one that modern IM clients are actually addressing.