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. > If you all just want to end development, that's your decision. I'd hate to see it happen, but again it's your call. As for third party client apis... there never really was any.. I mean there was TOC for AIM way back when... but we (pidgin) have been mimicing the official clients for 20 years no.. 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 > Facebook: https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki AIM: Shutdown by AOL on December 15th 2017 Google Talk/Hangouts: being discontinued by Google in the near future, but https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/ in the mean time Yahoo: Protocol rewrite in 2016, later abandoned by the provider for new product "Squirrel" Twitter: https://github.com/mikeage/prpltwtr There are many many more at https://d.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins#AdditionalProtocols > 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) > Slack: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple SIPE/Lync: http://sipe.sourceforge.net/ > 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 > Whatsapp bans 3rd party client users on sight, so that's a no go. SMS could use push bullet, but there are prpls on that page for WeChat, Line, Skype, and Slack. > 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. > See all my previous statements ;) The mobile thing is tricky as the iOS app store is not gpl compatible and libpurple is gpl'd and granting an exception to the license for it is unrealistic. > Thoughts? > > Moses > Thanks, -- Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com>
