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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 whodaman »

res0nat0r wrote: post #10
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.

same here... moved to IM+ Pro, paid. Supports OTR chats too as well as Skype.

Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by Navarr »

zapt02 wrote: post #6

Pidgin is a great alternative!

Pidgin isn't really an alternative. One of the best things about imo was remotely stored chat history, access to both the history and your IMs across devices (including ones you missed while you were out), etc.

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Post by nobeard »

The world does not need another damn stand-alone messaging service. I already have to use enough of them, which is why I started using imo.im in the first place! It was the only place I needed to go to be able to communicate across all my contacts, and it being a web app made it so much easier. Now that they don't service this need, I have no reason to continue using them.

Time to close the account.

Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by shahar2k »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #9
shahar2k wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

that's true, but as a freelancer that operates on OTHER people's computers... imo made life very convenient (especially having multiple gchat accounts concurrently with multiple yahoo / facebook account (yeah some holdouts are chatting on all)

Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by 51Cards »

I have never used this App but if I did I would also be uninstalling it right now. Chat/messaging apps are not primarily about features, they are about connections. They are social. I don't care if your chat app is awesome if none of my friends are on it.

I have been a long term supporter of Trillian for just that reason, cross platform support. It's quirky at times but it gives me as many protocols as possible in one place, and a combined list of all my friends through one interface. It also syncs across all my devices (multiple PC's and Android tablets/phones) As long as they keep that up they maximize the social connections... and my loyalty.

Re: Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

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Post by chch »

As soon as they made having an imo.im login mandatory, I had a sinking feeling it was the beginning of the end, and jumped ship (to the terrible compromise of AIM Express[0]). I had preferred Meebo for my third-party web messaging for a few years (handy in computer labs where you don't own the box!), but the Google acquisition took that away, so I'd switched to imo. Now they're both kaput.

A sad day for multiprotocol web messaging.

[0] http://www.aim.com/products/express/

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