[Opinion] Deleting obsolete services?

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Loqui IM allows you to use all your chat accounts in just one FirefoxOS or Ubuntu Touch app.

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[Opinion] Deleting obsolete services? #1204

Open cibersheep opened 7 years ago

cibersheep commented 7 years ago

Some of these services are obsolete / closed. It might be a good idea to do a check and decide if take them away.

Nimbuzz: Used to be xmpp / SIP but now is ¿closed connection system? Can't access with old user account
Nokia Ove: Discontinued service wikipedia
Microsoft Lync (No idea what's this). A replaced by Skype service?
Google Hangouts. Is it fixable? wikipedia
Facebook Chat. Old service? Is it possible to fix / upgrade?

nfsprodriver commented 7 years ago

If it's possible or wanted to reanimate them, this would be a good thing. Else we should hide them from the providers' selection list.

Honk2 commented 7 years ago

Yes that is a good option. By this, the work to keep a provider working again does not start from scratch.

bryanjhv commented 7 years ago

Facebook was a good provider, but they replaced XMPP for MQTT. bitlbee-facebook got the new protocol working (even when there are no docs about it), and Loqui IM used to be the only app with this provider... Maybe re-implementing the provider would be a good idea (and a lot of work to do, of course). :smiley: