Farewell ChitChat
Yahoo disconnected the YCHT protocol today. That is the protocol that ChitChat used. I knew this was coming, as did all the other Yahoo Chat developers. They’d been hinting for years that YCHT would die in favor of the new YMSG protocol.
Unfortunately, I never had the time to update ChitChat to the new protocol. And so this is the end of the line for it. I will leave the project up, hopefully someone else can gleam some useful knowledge from all my hard work.
I learned a lot from ChitChat. Especially back in the beginning when I was hacking away at the miChat source code written by J. Seth Lowe. How to design good interface, how to design good internal structure (something I’m still struggling with), I learned a lot.
You can read more at the ChitChat homepage.