rw_grim
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Comment · 1 day ago
We're rewriting everything out of necessity. Right now IRC is the most well supported but Zulip is half implemented with just DMs right now but channels will be coming soon.
There are third party plugins in varying degrees of completeness for YouTube, signal, whatsapp, twitch, and hdhome run. More info on those here https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/purple-3-pidgin-3-gaim-3-p...
Comment · 1 month ago
and AIM even had an XMPP bridge for a _very_ short time.
Comment · 1 month ago
See pidgin.im/plugins for modern protocol support.
As for version 3, yeah turns out that things take a very long time a tiny team that has zero financial support.
Comment · 1 month ago
I assure you stuff like OSCAR (the protocol for AIM and ICQ) is anything but simple and was a huge effort by many people to reverse engineer.
Comment · 2 months ago
If you want to use Pidgin with it, check out https://github.com/pidgin/retro-prpl
Comment · 2 months ago
We (Pidgin) can't fix issues we don't know about. Please report them so we can fix them.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yep, it's hard to run a volunteer project when there's so much work to do...
Comment · 2 months ago
We've retired the blog in favor of just posting on our discourse as noted in our last blog post ;)
Comment · 2 months ago
The networks you remember fondly in Pidgin (AIM, Y!M, MSN, ICQ, etc) didn't have external APIs to connect to either.
Comment · 3 months ago
Pidgin is still here although I'm behind on the monthly updates... https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird/1
Comment · 4 months ago
What's wrong with Pidgin? Also what protocols have you written?