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The networks you remember fondly in Pidgin (AIM, Y!M, MSN, ICQ, etc) didn't have external APIs to connect to either.

Pidgin is still here although I'm behind on the monthly updates... https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird/1

What's wrong with Pidgin? Also what protocols have you written?

For the full reasoning see this page https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords which is now back online. It was accidentally broken in a recent server migration. That sai…

well now you know ;) https://pidgin.im/plugins/

We never went anywhere and have support for modern protocols... See https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/news and https://pidgin.im/plugins/

I am the current lead developer of Pidgin, and would like to reinforce the level of collaboration in the XMPP world. Even with Pidgin being very far behind in XMPP (and everything …

We're still here... https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/news

Pidgin is a universal client that supports many protocols/networks including IRC, XMPP, and has additional third party plugins from stuff like Discord and Slack.

That sounds great! I literally just wrote the initial skeleton last night so there's lots of work to do so any help is greatly appreciated! I'm hoping to have something somewhat us…

This is great to hear and ironically we (Pidgin) just decided that Zulip was going to be the next protocol we were going to add support for just barely 24 hours ago before all this…

We (Pidgin) are still around.. You may be interested in our state of the bird posts to see what we've been up to. https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird

See the known issues on the page I linked? https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/blob/whatsme...

Kind of.. Getting a login cookie is difficult, but doable-ish https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-googlechat

Well you can have it now... https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/

You all know that we're still around and have been working on the next major release for quite a while now right? You might be interested in our state of the bird posts... https://…

We've never left. https://pidgin.im/

Pidgin is still here and does work (to some level) with all of those protocols. https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Protoco... We've been working on our next major…

You could just use libpurple to do all the im stuff and literally just write a user interface. That said, purple 2 isn't really designed for modern chat networks, but we're trying …

We (Pidgin) probably could have kept that code working if we had access to a server. But we didn't, and it bitrot, so we've since archived it to https://github.com/pidgin/retro-prp…