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I think something like that is not feasible anymore due to how complicated messaging apps have become in the last decade. Unifying several protocols under a sam

I think something like that is not feasible anymore due to how complicated messaging apps have become in the last decade. Unifying several protocols under a same app means either implementing all the shades of how a feature is done in every chat app, or flattening everything to get a sense of uniformity. In the '00s I most IM (that's what it was called back then) basically boiled down to text with a bit of images and files thrown here and there. Nowadays you can basically do a billion things in every single chat app. Given how much pressure has been put on platforms to differentiate, I do not expect any unified message app to succeed any time soon.

PostThisTooFast 6y ago
Not to mention: Why would you want all that shit in one application? IMs are different from E-mails.
jaimex2 6y ago
It's totally feasible just against the terms of use of each platform. Trillian used to cover this problem in the early days as well.
- Gualdrapo 6y ago
  And Pidgin, on desktop. And many other multi protocol 'apps'. The ridiculousness of that "my app has to have its own experience" largely affected desktop. Messaging applications fully integtated with desktop environments are no more, at least what they used to be. It's sad to see how not many people can use Pidgin now, or how things like Telepathy died.
krageon 6y ago
> how complicated messaging apps have become Messaging apps have been as simple as they've always been. They're just user-hostile, because we're all okay with that. The "it's so complicated though" line is something that big corporations like to use to pretend as if what everyone wants would be onerous to provide for them. It would not, they just don't want to.