Well, I guess this is it for Franz. I really liked this and it worked fine for me for a year. After an update all my configured services are gone and there is no longer a way to reconfigure services without creating an account with Franz.

Hello Pidgin, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.

I found a ticket on Github about the issue here: https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/issues/984 but it never got fixed or even a statement from it’s developer so I assume it’s simply the end of the journey.