@ajroach42 I still use Pidgin every day. I connect to my company's Slack via the IRC gateway :P

I wish more chat systems supported third-party apps or federating with independent servers. It's impossible to find a chat app in common these days. Every conversation I have goes:

"Are you on Whatsapp?"
"No, are you on Signal?"
"No, are you on Facebook?"
"No, are you on Skype?"
"No, are you on GChat?"
"No, are you on XMPP?"
"What's that?"
"Forget it, just email me."
"No-one uses email any more, it's too complicated."