On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:53 PM erythronium23 <erythroniu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My coworkers and I all use Adium for OTR chat over Google Talk and generic > XMPP. Who can't picture a world where Adium provides end-to-end encryption? > I use it for that purpose every day. > > Google will never deliver a compact, efficient, no-frills, usable, > end-to-end encrypted chat solution on the desktop. Neither will WhatsApp, > Signal, Slack, HipChat or any other app coming from a culture of > full-screen iPad fondling. Every few years I try Pidgin and Psi+ and find > them lacking in usability and decent visual compactness compared to Adium > as well. > As I Pidgin dev I'd love to hear your complaints (seriously, can't make it better if I don't know what people don't like :) ) off thread of course ;) > Adium with yMous is irreplaceable for me. At the very least, I think it > can prosper as the premiere desktop client for Google Talk and XMPP, > protocols which remain open and widely-used. > Thanks, -- Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com>
