Lots of good ideas. It will be easier to start to get a critical mass around them once we've recovered our brain (trac).
Here's my take: Multi-protocol chat is always going to be a compromise in terms of experience, but I think there's definitely room for our type of client. New protocols and networks keep proliferating, after all. So we take it slow. Just getting an update out in step with Libpurple, removing (adding) accounts on any abandoned networks, and porting some new prpls to Adium, would be an upgrade for the people out there still using Adium, which is non-zero. "Adium is open for business in 2019" is a humble, but necessary first step. Thoughts? -Colin On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:30 PM Carlos Morales <mora...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Maybe the best way forward is to focus on a protocol that: > > 1) still has an active and relatively large user base - even if is just > a niche > 2) still is fully supported by the underling Libpurple platform, > > > Thoughts? > > > > On Jan 18, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Matthew <mathuaerkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > >
