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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by amedvednikov on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:07AM (#16352726)
I'm working on a lightweight native client for all major messengers:

https://eul.im

It's only 90 KB (!)

Right now there's an old barely usable alpha out, but a new release is coming up next week.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by pmlnr on Sunday February 11, 2018 @12:24PM (#16353573)
Not native, not 90KB. The first thing it does is downloading an embedded web browser. 90KB the installer. Not native either. libpurple is native.
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by amedvednikov on Sunday February 11, 2018 @12:27PM (#16353591)
v0.26 used to do that. Not v0.27. And yes, v0.27 is a 90KB native app. It will be released on Feb 14.
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by tramtrist on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:30PM (#16356321)
Pretty impressive. Any chance of tying it to IRSSI or making an IRC gateway like bitlbee? I connect to almost all those services through bitlbee already and it works pretty well. Add Naver Line support as well and I'm sold..
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by amedvednikov on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:58AM (#16357433)
IRC is supported, so you can use bitlbee with eul.

Line messenger is not supported, but eul is modular, and everyone will be able to add support of custom messengers in the future as long as they have an open API (which Line seems to have).

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by dbdr on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:19PM (#16353907)
Sounds impressive. Unfortunate timing that the new version is not out yet, but if it needs final touches then it does ;)

Did you consider open-sourcing it? More people would probably be willing to give it a try and support you on patreon if it was.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by gwenzek on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:18AM (#16356713)
Sounds too good to be true! I'll check that.
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by andersonfreitas on Sunday February 11, 2018 @07:15PM (#16355595)
Looks promising, keep working on it!
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by peterisza on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:09AM (#16352736)
Wow!
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