I have never used this App but if I did I would also be uninstalling it right now. Chat/messaging apps are not primarily about features, they are about connections. They are social. I don't care if your chat app is awesome if none of my friends are on it.
I have been a long term supporter of Trillian for just that reason, cross platform support. It's quirky at times but it gives me as many protocols as possible in one place, and a combined list of all my friends through one interface. It also syncs across all my devices (multiple PC's and Android tablets/phones) As long as they keep that up they maximize the social connections... and my loyalty.
They likely want to become a standalone messaging app in the hopes of an acquisition as messaging apps seem to be mimicking the Search Engine wars of 1999.
Does anyone have recommendations for a good multi chat app replacement besides trillian?
Couldn't have said it better myself. As soon as imo drops support for other messengers my connections are gonna go from over a 100 to 4. And I'm powerless to fix this.
What's really shitty, in my opinion, is that they're giving 3 days notice, and only 7 days to download your chat logs for those networks. (For those unaware, retrieving your chat logs has been a feature of IMO for a very, very long time).
After Meebo, and now this, as well as their dropped support for skype, and extreme pluralization of all IM / chat mediums, and dropping of most generally accessible protocols... the web really seems to be splitting into apps, and it's a sad frustrating reality.
It wasn't all that long ago when we fought this message interop battle the firsst time with AOL, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. Now the problem is back in spades: Imo, Hangouts, iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook, ...
IMO is pretty much making itself irrelevant with this move. I barely used it, mainly to get Google IM's on my iphone, with this move...it's now uninstalled.
The world does not need another damn stand-alone messaging service. I already have to use enough of them, which is why I started using imo.im in the first place! It was the only place I needed to go to be able to communicate across all my contacts, and it being a web app made it so much easier. Now that they don't service this need, I have no reason to continue using them.
As soon as they made having an imo.im login mandatory, I had a sinking feeling it was the beginning of the end, and jumped ship (to the terrible compromise of AIM Express[0]).
I had preferred Meebo for my third-party web messaging for a few years (handy in computer labs where you don't own the box!), but the Google acquisition took that away, so I'd switched to imo. Now they're both kaput.
Bummer. Used them for several years with the web client. Used Android client off and on at various times. As others commented, chat history across all services was great and one of their strengths.
Switching to Adium as I don't know anyone using imo.im's network.
5 years later, all the chat services will realize "We need to find a way to talk across services". Either XMPP or some other standard will become commonplace. Seems cyclical.
Tried their web app a couple of years ago and was rather impressed (mainly due to their Skype support). However, it drifted away from my focus.
Whoa they have their own network. But then again, their original strength was the combination of OTHER im networks, where i could communicate with them all in one place.
Pidgin isn't really an alternative. One of the best things about imo was remotely stored chat history, access to both the history and your IMs across devices (including ones you missed while you were out), etc.
Any recommendations for an Android messaging app that allows you to be connected to mutliple Google accounts at once? I loved imo.im for this, and it was way better than any others I tried.
imo is a great chat client. slick, modern, beautiful & has a web app. This decision is very unfortunate as there don't seem to be any good alternatives. Here are their founders explaining the reasons behind it.
imo is a great chat client. slick, modern, beautiful & has a web app. This decision is very unfortunate as there don't seem to be any good alternatives. Here are their founders explaining the reasons behind it.
[+] [-] 51Cards|12 years ago|reply
I have been a long term supporter of Trillian for just that reason, cross platform support. It's quirky at times but it gives me as many protocols as possible in one place, and a combined list of all my friends through one interface. It also syncs across all my devices (multiple PC's and Android tablets/phones) As long as they keep that up they maximize the social connections... and my loyalty.
[+] [-] cvos|12 years ago|reply
Does anyone have recommendations for a good multi chat app replacement besides trillian?
[+] [-] ranndino|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] donniezazen|12 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] mikeflynn|12 years ago|reply
It wasn't all that long ago when we fought this message interop battle the firsst time with AOL, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. Now the problem is back in spades: Imo, Hangouts, iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook, ...
[+] [-] res0nat0r|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] nobeard|12 years ago|reply
Time to close the account.
[+] [-] chch|12 years ago|reply
A sad day for multiprotocol web messaging.
[0] http://www.aim.com/products/express/
[+] [-] bhaile|12 years ago|reply
Switching to Adium as I don't know anyone using imo.im's network. 5 years later, all the chat services will realize "We need to find a way to talk across services". Either XMPP or some other standard will become commonplace. Seems cyclical.
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[+] [-] chrishynes|12 years ago|reply
Time to go back to https://www.trillian.im/, I guess.
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[+] [-] marlin|12 years ago|reply
Whoa they have their own network. But then again, their original strength was the combination of OTHER im networks, where i could communicate with them all in one place.
Right now, i wonder why ever try this again?
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[+] [-] com2kid|12 years ago|reply
It sucks that I now have to go back to a stand alone IM app, I've been using a web based client for close to a decade now.
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[+] [-] ranndino|12 years ago|reply
http://maratryndin.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/why-imo-messenge...
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