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Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by shahar2k »

Navarr wrote: post #2

What's really shitty, in my opinion, is that they're giving 3 days notice, and only 7 days to download your chat logs for those networks. (For those unaware, retrieving your chat logs has been a feature of IMO for a very, very long time).

After Meebo, and now this, as well as their dropped support for skype, and extreme pluralization of all IM / chat mediums, and dropping of most generally accessible protocols... the web really seems to be splitting into apps, and it's a sad frustrating reality.

Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by MetaCosm »

shahar2k wrote: post #3
Navarr wrote: post #2

What's really shitty, in my opinion, is that they're giving 3 days notice, and only 7 days to download your chat logs for those networks. (For those unaware, retrieving your chat logs has been a feature of IMO for a very, very long time).

After Meebo, and now this, as well as their dropped support for skype, and extreme pluralization of all IM / chat mediums, and dropping of most generally accessible protocols... the web really seems to be splitting into apps, and it's a sad frustrating reality.

Currently, to talk to everyone I speak to regularly requires: Skype, Hangouts (multiple), IRC, AIM, WhatsApp, HipChat, Viber, Yahoo!, Facebook Chat...

Because I need 4x hangouts (1 per company I work with, contracting, my own business, personal, etc) and many of the other apps either won't work with other clients, or have crippled features or usefulness, I end up running 10 "chat" clients.

grumpy old man voice Back in my day, we used to be able to setup all our text based messaging in one pidgin client, or a bitlbee instance! Damned kids.

Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by JohnTHaller »

shahar2k wrote: post #7
zapt02 wrote: post #6

Pidgin is a great alternative!

unfortunately it's not a webapp

Right, so you use it on your computer alongside your web apps. Better to use real apps as opposed to web apps that will be taken away with 3 days notice.

Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by res0nat0r »

mikeflynn wrote: post #5

...and removed. It wasn't all that long ago when we fought this message interop battle the firsst time with AOL, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. Now the problem is back in spades: Imo, Hangouts, iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook, ...

IMO is pretty much making itself irrelevant with this move. I barely used it, mainly to get Google IM's on my iphone, with this move...it's now uninstalled.
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