If Miranda NG wants a future, it can't rely only on old-school messengers that even aren't much popular anymore, and it also can't simply continue the cat-and-mouse game with closed messengers forever (look at the current situation fo WhatsApp's protocol). It means that most of the few people that still cares about Miranda are old users, those of us who started messaging with old school messengers designed for desktops rather than smartphones - we know how powerful and handy Miranda can be - however, since Miranda didn't keep up with the evolution of messengers, at the same that much of us old users are being forced to leave it, the new generation of messengers users hardly comes to know about Miranda's existence - and why would they?Īnyway, that's just to say that people won't show up asking for Telegram or other popular mobile messengers here they don't even know about Miranda! WhatsApp and Facebook are exceptions to this: they are far too much popular almost everywhere even people who hates them sometimes find themselves forced to use them. There's another problem with such idea: Miranda never was an extremely popular messenger, and today it is very far from the popularity it once had years ago. I've seen developers saying that it all depends on the interest of Miranda's user-base, but that's unreasonable: isn't it obvious that Miranda doesn't have much Telegram users because it doesn't support Telegram to begin with? Since I started using Telegram as my main messenger, around two years ago, I thought it was a matter of time for Telegram to be supported, but no sign of it yet, even though it is open source and already more popular than most of all other messengers supported by Miranda.
I tried to use Miranda for as much time as I could because it allowed me to configure my contact list exactly as I wanted, but as time passed by it became more and more hard to keep using it: ICQ became unpopular many years ago, MSN/Windows Live Messenger ceased to exist and Skype was never properly supported by Miranda - the other protocols? Well, none of them can really be considered popular options (with the exception of WhatsApp and Facebook, which were never properly supported and I don't use anyway).
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