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>it was horrible. the standards simply couldn’t keep up. the clients couldn’t keep up. The best chat application I ever used was Pidgin circa 2008. It was so e

>it was horrible. the standards simply couldn’t keep up. the clients couldn’t keep up. The best chat application I ever used was Pidgin circa 2008. It was so easy to be able to talk to all my friends across several different protocols in a single program.

giantrobot 4y ago
Pidgin existed not because IM services provided interoperability but because someone wrote libgaim and equivalents for other protocols. Keeping those up to date was a massive effort.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
  It was still awesome that it was possible to exist, and allowed to exist.