Hej,
Sadly developpers have gone away because their favorite protocol is dead or their contacts have left anyway for something else...
I love Miranda but well, can only use IRC, few people left there, ICQ still works but contacts are long gone...
I'm not a developper but surely if I was one, it'd be hard to find any motivation. The best days of IMing are behind us.
We need to make the people come back first, then we'll have developpers.
I tryed escargot MSN for a while, it's fun to use the old MSN clients and stuff, but if you want contacts, you randomly add people from their forums, and you have not much to say to them... :/