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mcpherrinm on July 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing a video chat application from the ground u...

In the "last generation" of chat apps, there were certainly a lot of multiprotocol messengers. Trillium and Pidgin come to mind, and were way more popular with bitlbee.

sigcode on July 8, 2016 [–]

I was referring to IRC gateways. Were those IRC gateways?

mcpherrinm on July 9, 2016 | [–]

Fwiw, you made no reference to IRC gateways - just consolidating chat protocols into a single application.

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