Re: PRotocols unification ? RE: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-13 Thread Eion Robb
-boun...@pidgin.im] On Behalf Of > > pid...@alexoren.com > > Sent: 13. July 2016 3:04 > > To: e...@robbmob.com > > Cc: Pidgin Support List > > Subject: Re: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client [dkim] > > > > Hi Eion, > > > > Allow me to prese

Re: PRotocols unification ? RE: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-13 Thread David Woolley
On 13/07/16 17:43, David Balažic wrote: In light of this, does anyone know any group, organization, effort or anything toward unification of IM protocols? Having 5 (or even 10) different apps just to communicate with people is ridiculous. (multi-protocol clients like pidgin help, but the

Re: PRotocols unification ? RE: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-13 Thread pidgin
On 13-07-2016 12:43, David Balažic wrote: In light of this, does anyone know any group, organization, effort or anything toward unification of IM protocols? Having 5 (or even 10) different apps just to communicate with people is ridiculous. (multi-protocol clients like pidgin help, but the

PRotocols unification ? RE: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-13 Thread David Balažic
e Engineer www.comtrade.com > -Original Message- > From: Support [mailto:support-boun...@pidgin.im] On Behalf Of > pid...@alexoren.com > Sent: 13. July 2016 3:04 > To: e...@robbmob.com > Cc: Pidgin Support List > Subject: Re: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client [dk

Re: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-12 Thread pidgin
Going slightly off-topic, I would also like to see support for Trillian's IMPP (https://www.trillian.im/impp) On 12-07-2016 21:03, pid...@alexoren.com wrote: Hi Eion, Allow me to present an opposing view. The new Yahoo protocol is atrocious, there is no disputing that. However, many people

Re: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-12 Thread pidgin
Hi Eion, Allow me to present an opposing view. The new Yahoo protocol is atrocious, there is no disputing that. However, many people will continue to use it due to its integration with Yahoo mail. Everybody who uses Yahoo's web-mail gets the "new" messenger integrated with it, just like

Re: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-12 Thread Wade Smart
My thought is, no. If users are leaving - why put out the effort. And the argument - if you put out the effort they might not. It holds no water. They are leaving because there are better ways to communicate. I still have my yahoo on for the few in other countries that use it but as I look over

Re: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

2016-07-12 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Arulraj, I've been looking over the new Yahoo but everyone seems to think it's terrible, posting in their forums and user feedback pages about how awful the new messenger is. The new messenger is a completely new client and protocol with the word "yahoo" slapped on it and it seems to have no