"Buddies" is missing in Apple Messages app and closed on my desktop

Just wanted to update regarding my quest for a multipurpose client. Check out https://trillian.im - took me about 5 minutes to set it up for Google and our in-house XMMP / Jabber account. Free for personal use. Also available on the Mac App Store:Trillian on the Mac App Store

The Buddies List is gone because the services that relied on those lists like Jabber and AIM are no longer supported in Messages as of Mojave.

We use Jabber services in our office and searching for a client app is proving difficult - seems most developers are not going into the Jabber biz. One I used to use, Adium, seems to have been abandoned. It would be great to continue to have texts, Hangouts, and Messages all in one app, but not happening.

Everything has its life-cycle in tech and it looks like multipurpose messaging clients have seen the end of theirs.

I'm annoyed by this as well! Come on Apple be friends with other applications so we can work efficiently. I guess I shouldn't have updated to this Mojave Mess. 😟

More follow up on the Trillian app: no groups which is a deal buster for us.