I did actually. They kept the XMPP compat running for quite a while after, so for me Pidgin and my old blackberry GTalk app kept working. Eventually they shut

I did actually. They kept the XMPP compat running for quite a while after, so for me Pidgin and my old blackberry GTalk app kept working. Eventually they shut it down though, but in an uncharacteristic move they gave quite a bit of lead time.