{"id":7317,"date":"2018-01-25T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:23:22","slug":"gimme-back-my-gchat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/gimme-back-my-gchat\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Gimme Back My Gchat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2280,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/500ish.com\\\/gimme-back-my-gchat-7417f3abe8e9?source=rss----662a29c3b19e---4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/medium.com\\\/m\\\/global-identity-2?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2F500ish.com%2Fgimme-back-my-gchat-7417f3abe8e9%3Fsource%3Drss----662a29c3b19e---4&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/gimme-back-my-gchat-7417f3abe8e9?source=rss----662a29c3b19e---4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gimme Back My Gchat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These days, we all use several chat products. iMessage here. Facebook Messenger there. Telegram at times. Slack at work. WhatsApp. Snapchat. Confide. Signal. Line. Kik. GroupMe. Tango. Skype. The list goes on. And that\u2019s not to mention the chat functionality within apps like Instagram. And even Twitter DM. It\u2019s enough to make one long for the days of Trillian.\u00b3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t IM with anyone anymore. I don\u2019t have anyone to IM with. I iMessage (SMS) with one person. I receive SMS from 2 different people well I guess 4 if you include my mom and dad via Google Voice. However, back when I was young and social. Trillian (and by proxy Fire.app) were amazing. You could login to every chat service and it was all in a single window. I really loved that integration but we live now in an age of walled gardens where each service needs to deliver ads to you and track your habits so allowing a 3rd party XMPP access to your user base in order to gain marketshare and ultimately make users\u2019 experience better is long gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gimme Back My Gchat: These days, we all use several chat products. iMessage here. Facebook Messenger there. 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If a user sends a message to another RCS user,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6800,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/linked-aol-will-cut-off-older-third-party-app-access-to-aim\/","url_meta":{"origin":7317,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;AOL will cut off older third-party app access to AIM&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via ArsTechnica: On Tuesday, AOL (yes, it\u2019s still around) suddenly announced to users of AOL Instant Messenger (including yours truly) that it would be disabling older, and less-secure access to its network through at least one third-party messaging app (Adium) as of March 28. 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