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.
thanks sooooo much for all that you did!!!!
Comment by kip — April 22, 2006 @ 6:36 am
Tom,
I wanna thank you for all your hard work on ChitChat. I loved it. It was the only client I used. All the other clients for Mac sucks. Anyway I certainly wish you would update it. I have about 45 friends who used it all the time and now we feel the same way. Good luck in all ur new endeavors.
Anyway thanks again,
Bud
Comment by Bud — August 22, 2006 @ 12:11 am