❤️‍🔥 Hot Beeper Summer
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Our quest to make Beeper the best chat app on Earth continues. Recap the progress we’ve made, ICYMI.

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.

  •  dan   ( @dan@upvote.au ) 
    20•11 months 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.

    •  shrugal   ( @shrugal@lemm.ee ) 
      11•11 months 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.