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Ever tried bitlbee? Not sure how well it's keeping up with the new protocols but years ago it was a way to consolidate at least a few of the older ones into a single application. Also not sure why this idea has not been replicated. Maybe it has.

[erlehmann_]

The idea has been replicated in XMPP as so-called transports, which maps other protocols to XMPP. This arguably works better than bitlbee and other IRC gateways, since XMPP is a superset of many protocols, while IRC is a subset of many protocols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Connecting_to_other_proto...

I can join chatrooms in my XMPP client by joining a multi-user chat, like [e-mail]. It may seem useless at first, but I have found out that when on a train and using IRC directly, I timeout much more often than if using XMPP in the same situation.

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Cheers.

[mcpherrinm]

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]

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

[mcpherrinm]

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