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Re:A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and cha... by FuriouslyAdrift on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @04:03PM (#44727647)
Trillian and Gaim... (2000 and 1999)
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Re:A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and cha... by johnisgood on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:52PM (#44729179)
Now Gajim still exists and is maintained. :P
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Re:A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and cha... by BGZq7 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @07:09PM (#44729304)
Gajim is unrelated to Gaim. Gaim was renamed to Pidgin though, which still exists.
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Re:A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and cha... by johnisgood on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:36PM (#44729856)
Oh, yeah I knew Gaim became Pidgin, but I thought Gajim is a fork of Gaim as well, Gaim revived. Oops.
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Re:A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and cha... by a96 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @03:18AM (#44731637)
Being in any way associated with AIM/AOL was a bad thing, which they probably realized way too late.
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