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This is a 16 year old front end to the same chat service that you think of as Gmail chat / Gchat / Hangouts / etc., not sure if that's clear.

If it's only a frontend how does "we'll end our support for third-party apps, including Pidgin and Gajim" make sense? Just coinciding?

That's what made me assume it was a whole stack rather than interface to a backend.