Jake in the desertMay 24, 2024

With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

#ICQ #Teams #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams

Show threadStuart Longland (VK4MSL)May 25, 2024

@jake4480 I miss the days when you could have one program, just one… that connected to:

- MSN Messenger
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger
- ICQ
- XMPP… others

Is there such a beast that can connect to Slack, Teams and Zoom for example?

Show threadmattMay 25, 2024
@stuartl @jake4480 beeper https://www.beeper.com/ - it seems to work relatively well, but it's early days. Commercial backed with a lot of funding by makers of WordPress so it has legs. But, commercial backed so it could die if/when they lose interest. However that describes 95% of broad scale software, so -shrug-
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.

A single app to chat on WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and 8 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you'll never miss a message again.

Beeper
Show threadStuart Longland (VK4MSL)

@maphew @jake4480

Just having a look now… looks to be built atop of the Matrix IM protocol and there are self-host options with source code available.

I've got things on this week-end, so can't investigate it fully just now, but this is looking promising.

May 25, 2024 at 10:36amWeb