>Find service/program, start using and loving it. >Kee

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2016-06-05 12:30:29 Post No. 54923378
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Companies/Projects t 2016-06-05 12:30:29 Post No. 54923378 [Report]

>Find service/program, start using and loving it.
>Keeps getting better and better, growing in popularity
>Suddenly goes silent for a while, announcing that some tech giant aquired the project shortly afterwards.
>It's the last thing you will ever hear from them

What have you been through? I'd like to hear your stories and will tell one of mine:

I am still bitter about Meebo.
http://www.meebo.com/

Google literally sniped it.

Everyone I knew was using it. I don't know if it was a regional thing, but it was a service that was ridiculously common and popular at the time; and its disappearance caused a huge fragmentation of services, resulting in a decline in general IM activity.

Happening right at the time when smartphones and tablets became ubiquitous, this was another huge factor in said fragmentation.

Anonymous 2016-06-05 12:31:48 Post No.54923390
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>>54923378
Bump for interest.

Anonymous 2016-06-05 12:35:04 Post No.54923423
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>>54923378
Use bitlbee. Problem solved

Anonymous 2016-06-05 12:36:31 Post No.54923444
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>>54923378
I used meebo a lot. But during its last ~2 years they didn't fix shit with the messenger.

Now using Pidgin with XMPP alone, feels like I haven't lost much

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>>54923378
(cont)

>Meebo was acquired by Google on June 4, 2012.
>Our team is now working just a few miles down the road with the Google+ team, where we continue to focus on creating delightful experiences for our users, developers, and publishers.
>Meebo's products are no longer available, but you can find all the latest and greatest things that we're working on at https://developers.google.com/+/.
>Thanks,
>The Meebo Team

There were a number of factors to the huge rise in WhatsApp's popularity, but that graph is just too entertaining when you look at the date of meebo's closing.

Multi-messengers on smartphones have been consistently shitty and faded away one after another in a futile attempt to become a WhatsApp competitor by implementing lock-in measures. That -of course- only resulted in a fight *between* competitors.

Anonymous 2016-06-05 13:51:16 Post No.54924241
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>>54923378

like microsoft shitting on 3rd party skype clients

in memory of Ofu LLx 2016-06-05 13:54:00 Post No.54924268
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in memory of Ofu LLx 2016-06-05 13:54:00 Post No.54924268 [Report]

>>54923378
Wakoopa.

Companies/Projects t 2016-06-05 14:01:29 Post No.54924357
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BumpTop.

Would have been cool to see some development for tablets. I don't recall anything from Google apart from releasing the source, however.

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I'm aware that Imgur.com will stop allowing adult images since 15th of May. I'm taking actions to backup as much data as possible.
Read more on this topic here - https://archived.moe/talk/thread/1694/