What are /r/trillian's favorite Products & Services?

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Trillian is still running in my computer as a hangouts/GoogleTalk client. Adittionally, is set to notify over emails I receive from work/gmail, plus, It's somewhat still useful to read tweets from people you follow in messenger toasts.

It's true that any hangouts conversations started in other devices running hangouts won't be reflected in the trillian log/chat window, which is a bummer.

Ever since Whatsapp, every IM out there started federating their own protocols again, so the existence of trillian is becoming less and less relevant. This is not Trillians fault, but rather how messaging evolved. The use of custom widgets, from location to photo galleries, contacts, etc, drifted away from the XMPP standards of communication once laid out.

Jabber and XMPP might be a thing of the past, unless we get back to a golden era of protocol-exchange like in the past, like they guys at matrix.org are working in. Yet another attempt at creating a global decentralized IM service. If this ever picks up, clients like Trillian won't have a problem to add it.

But you can say bye to Skype, ICQ, MSN/FB and other useful protocols and also whatsapp or telegram, which are not really interesting in allowing third party apps like trillian to API their servers.

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http://skype-open-source.blogspot.de/2014/08/real-gateway-to-skype-network.html

i just downloaded that skypekit file from torrent and it's working again. ran that thing trough http://virusscan.jotti.org and it didn't show anything suspicious...

My old Trillian v5.6 basic currently can't connect to AIM right now. Its log keeps showing "Internal error". I have no problems connecting with https://www.trillian.im/chat and Pidgin's Finch though. :(

Its support said I have to use the newer versions: https://www.trillian.im/help/user/aim/ ... :(

I don't think so, they keep making new versions, just not for windows right now

I think/hope the service isn't dying as I use it for everything (except skype ..) and I have a lifetime account :p

All three of those services were compatible with Jabber/XMPP protocol. I don't think there ever was Trillian devs reverse engineering other companies protocols, but rather, profiting from the protocol federation that al those services were purposely supporting. Heck, they even incorporated an foreign skype.dll windows library in the trillian setup that was signed by Skype, that acted as bridge to API the Skype Network when it was cool. The moment M$ decided to kill support for thir party apps like Trillian, Trillian stopped being able to connect to Skype.

I always believed Cerulean did an excelent job: Their software was state of the art past v4. Low resources, great UI/UX, and the amount of networks was plentiful. No implementation was 100% perfect, but far better than other clients back in the day (Windows, ofc, Mac was a different reality).

All in all, it was never Cerulean, but rather how the business shifted. Companies realized IM was not really profitable until someone figured out the money was in selling users data for advertisement, and became celous of their users for them to sell. One by one, they all followed the money path, protocol federation did not fit that scheme, leaving software like Trillian pretty useless, I mean, if no IM network allows you to use your own client, what's even the point, right?

I bought Pro and we given pro for life. Despite what the user base thinks, I believe they had to pivot into whatever made sense, like coporate IM, for the sake of the investors/Salaries/not closing Cerulean. If no new federation comes along like this matrix.org soon, some Atlassian/SAAP/SalesForce will eventually adquire them for peanuts.

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