1/1/2024 0 Comments Adium yahoo messenger![]() Now you might say… so why do you have all these services, anyway? Well, I’ve been online since the mid-1980’s and generally my work has always involved keeping up with new technology, so I’ve always dabbled in various services and slowly you develop this accretion of new IM accounts-each that different friends and others use. If I look at my own usage, I use Adium to unify:Īll of those in one client with one directory of users and one window for chats (each on their own tab-and yes, I could have chats in separate windows but I generally choose not to do so). Since I was updating Adium at the time, I took a moment to look at all the different protocols that Adium now supports… as seen in the screenshot on the right side of this post. Somewhat ironically, there was a discussion going on in a Skype groupchat in which I participate about the various IM protocols and whether anyone really used GTalk, etc. (And if you are a Yahoo IM user, you really need to get the 1.3.2b1 beta.) I was reminded of this fact this morning when I received a message saying that an update was available for Adium on my Mac that solved a really annoying disconnection problem with Yahoo!Messenger. Why not? Simple… we’ve unified the IM services on the client side and basically stopped caring about the various services and protocols. Odds are that if you are an IM user like me, you probably don’t. ![]() Still, work continues.Do you care any more about zillion different IM services? Do you care about the IM protocol wars that have plagued the usage of IM for the last years? And fewer protocols are unencrypted plain text, which makes it harder as well. They didn't outright ban clients, but my understanding is that their lawyers were involved at one point (though I think mainly due to the name "GAIM").īut you're right, they are removing third-party clients more. Changing auth schemes to increasingly-elaborate obfuscated methods, at one point throwing pages of what looked like equations at us.ĪIM would have been fine with us if we had used TOC (their open source protocol), but OSCAR is where all the features were at. Yahoo wanted us off and did everything they could to keep us from connecting. Some of the IM services didn't mind us being there (MSN seemed more than fine with it, and we reportedly had fans within the team there, though future protocol versions made it harder for us to figure out). I used to be a dev on the team, and we had our accounts banned all the time. This was a problem even back when Gaim (now Pidgin) was at peak popularity. If someone nontechnical walked by they'd see a terminal and it looked exactly like I was working, not chatting on IRC & facebook, and looking at twitter :D For a time I had a pretty great setup on a local VM (running the PHP app I was working on): one tmux tab with work, another with a pane for finch (for chatting on FB & google), a pane for IRC, and a third pane for ttytter, the amazing twitter CLI. It was pretty fantastic, messages were inaccessible to facebook and google even with a court order so I didn't need to trust them.Īlso used Finch for a bit. ![]() I used to use Pidgin with OTR for e2e encrypted chat over google & facebook. All the sudden you can no longer use Pidgin to communicate with people on google & facebook. A: Google & Facebook shut down their XMPP gateways to force you into their apps.
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