My Adium use is limited to IRC and Skype for Business. Adium still appears to be the best option for either of these.
Outside of Adium, my chats happen in SMS/MMS/RCS, Hangouts, Slack, Discord, Signal, and Keybase. On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:27 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> > 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> 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> -- Matthew
