Yes, it feels that way doesn't it? The only remaining service I now use with pidgin is gtalk, but it doesn't support offline messages. Or rather, Google didn'

Yes, it feels that way doesn't it? The only remaining service I now use with pidgin is gtalk, but it doesn't support offline messages. Or rather, Google didn't implement them in XMPP, so as a result there is a black hole where sent messages go into and I never see them unless I log into Google's Hangouts with a browser.