> i think people tend to forget that pidgin's focus is being a multi-protocol messenger.
That's what's great about it and part of the reasons i think blocking Pidgin would be very wrong.
> i wrote that omemo plugin and tbh I am pretty burned out.
Thanks for that work! Maybe you could start by writing about your burnout on the README to encourage other people to contribute/maintain, or at least be less demanding of you?
> it's hell to debug and i'm not even sure where to go next with it.
Do you think this is specific to your plugin? To OMEMO? Or to pidgin plugins in general? Personally, i find it very challenging to write correct code in C, and i can only imagine the pains pidgin developers have to come through to make so many networks/protocols inteoperate. If you have some reading about your experiences, what lessons we can learn, and maybe some project (whether internal to pidgin or not) to implement them, i'd be interested to read.
> sorry if someone feels let down.
I don't think anyone feels really let down. Some people are not aware of just how experimental certain things are and so they get disappointed but life goes on. You however should take care of your mental health and not let maintenance burden and heartless cyber-ranters like me affect your mood and taste for computing <3
That's what's great about it and part of the reasons i think blocking Pidgin would be very wrong.
> i wrote that omemo plugin and tbh I am pretty burned out.
Thanks for that work! Maybe you could start by writing about your burnout on the README to encourage other people to contribute/maintain, or at least be less demanding of you?
> it's hell to debug and i'm not even sure where to go next with it.
Do you think this is specific to your plugin? To OMEMO? Or to pidgin plugins in general? Personally, i find it very challenging to write correct code in C, and i can only imagine the pains pidgin developers have to come through to make so many networks/protocols inteoperate. If you have some reading about your experiences, what lessons we can learn, and maybe some project (whether internal to pidgin or not) to implement them, i'd be interested to read.
> sorry if someone feels let down.
I don't think anyone feels really let down. Some people are not aware of just how experimental certain things are and so they get disappointed but life goes on. You however should take care of your mental health and not let maintenance burden and heartless cyber-ranters like me affect your mood and taste for computing <3