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So do I, so often. I made an Adiumy animation pack for my university that actually got mildly popular, and it was amazing. Such a quality app, and so nice when

So do I, so often. I made an Adiumy animation pack for my university that actually got mildly popular, and it was amazing. Such a quality app, and so nice when communication systems were standards not apps.

malermeister 3y ago
Well, they weren't really standards by design either, people just reverse engineered their protocols. One could still do that, it's just that... nobody does anymore?
- koito17 3y ago
  The countless matrix bridges[1] to Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, etc. that are actively maintained, together with dozens of Pidgin plugins[2] serving similar purposes suggests otherwise. Granted, I don't expect Pidgin plugins to be well maintained compared to the Matrix appservice bridges. But still, there is at least one protocol that bridges to almost everything, and that's Matrix. For several years I used Matrix as little more than a glorified IRC and Slack client. [1] https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/ https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/ [2] https://pidgin.im/plugins/?type=Protocol https://pidgin.im/plugins/?type=Protocol
- LoganDark 3y ago
  Oh no, people have tried to reverse-engineer apps like Signal or Discord. The problem is that the company starts aggressively banning every user of the reverse-engineered clients, as well as mounting legal attacks on their authors.
xcrunner529 3y ago
Seeing Adium and the message themes is one of the big things that made me want a Mac believe it or not. It looked so pretty.