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Trillian was amazing. I blame Google for killing it with Embrace, Extent, Extinguish.
Not sure what Google has to do with it. It wasn't made by them. It didn't even use their services. It's also technically still around... But it's primary use is with... Healthcare services. ๐คจ
Google Talk used XMPP under the hood, so it worked perfectly with Trillian and many other clients.
Except, over time, Google extended Google Talk with features outside the open XMPP specification, and didn't contribute them back.
Eventually, Google pushed an update that caused alternate clients like Trillian to no longer work with Google Talk.
Google intentionally embraced, extended and did their damnedest to extinguish XMPP, directly causing the largest drop in other Trillian users to connect with - the day that the entire Google Talk network became unavailable to Trillian users.