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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    1 year ago

    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.