[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.