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Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. (blog.beeper.com)
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I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.

The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they mostly died when GChat turned off XMPP support and became a walled garden.

Most of the protocols supported by Trillian were walled gardens too - AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, etc were all proprietary.

I think they mostly died when GChat turned off XMPP support and became a walled garden.

Trillian had paid full-time developers too. I'm not sure what'd they'd be doing differently to what Trillian did.

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I think one difference is that the rate of change in chat apps has slowed down dramatically. When was the last time one of the major apps added a new feature you can't live without anymore? So it might be easier now to keep up.