To me the interesting features of a modern chat system aren’t easily achievable by an Adium-like project. I want end-to-end encryption and I want cloud transcript syncing between clients as fundamental basics before I would even consider using a service. Then I need a network effect of the service so people I know are using it.
I struggle to picture a world where a project like Adium could deliver that. Luke > On Jan 18, 2019, at 9:26 AM, Moses Lei <b...@moseslei.net> wrote: > > I'm curious as to what services people are using Adium with these days? I'm > not sure if this is a popular opinion, but perhaps we should just gracefully > end Adium development, if our user/developer base has declined to that point. > Like it or not, the days of interoperable protocols seem to be over, and > there are almost no services out there that have an API for third party > clients anymore. > > My initial reason to contribute to Adium was because of IRC. I'm a cloud > architect / IT consultant and over the last few years, almost all my use > cases for Adium disappeared. > > Personal use cases: > - Facebook XMPP - deprecated by provider > - AIM - no friends use anymore > - Google Talk XMPP - replaced with Hangouts mobile app > - Yahoo - no friends use anymore > - Twitter - replaced with mobile app > > Business/work use cases: > - IRC - Replaced with Slack > - SIPE/Lync - Replaced with Slack in one case, HipChat in another, firewalled > off in a third (so now we have to use the Windows desktop app via RDS) > > So, I have not needed Adium for anything for 4-5 years now (it's not even > installed on my last two machines) and thus have no impetus to work on it > anymore. I'm curious to know if other people have had the same experience. > > Current IM services that I use: > - SMS > - iMessage > - Slack > - WhatsApp > - Skype > - LINE > - WeChat > > As far as I know, there is no support in almost any of these for third-party > clients, so the raison d'etre for an app like Adium is not fulfillable-- even > if we manage to get it onto mobile where it might be more useful. > > Thoughts? > > Moses > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:06 AM Colin Barrett <co...@springsandstruts.com > <mailto:co...@springsandstruts.com>> wrote: > Hi Gary, > > I've been trying to get our trac instance back online, or at least recover > the dat from it for export. I dropped the ball a bit here, however. In my > defense, life has been getting in the way, not a lack of desire. > > If anyone thinks they can be particularly helpful with that, please get in > touch with me here or on IRC. > > -Colin > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:22 PM Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com > <mailto:g...@reaperworld.com>> wrote: > Hey everyone! > > This is Gary Kramlich current lead developer of Pidgin. I'm reaching out to > try and figure out what we can do to get Adium back on it's feet. I have > many ideas and would love to share them with you all. So who wants to help? > > Thanks, > > -- > Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com <mailto:g...@reaperworld.com>>
