Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client • Hacker News Board

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by ephaeton » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

still using finch (libpurple text ui client coming from the same corner) on a daily basis. Easy to keep it running on a tmux session on my server, ready for a ssh/mosh + tmux attach. Prevents all the syncing of chat histories everywhere...

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by rijoja » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

TameAntelope wrote: post #5

brightball wrote: post #2

This is exciting! I thought Pidgin had died off, but with the sheer number of chat platforms out there I'd much rather install a single Pidgin client to keep up with them. Can it work effectively with the more closed system clients that exist today though?

Surprising to see both Discord and Slack on the list! No MS Teams, though.

Good

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by creaturemachine » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #3

I'm glad to see Pidgin still alive and well. I remember ages ago moving to it from Trillian, and I don't think there's any other software around like it.

Personally I'm holding out for the resurrection of ICQ.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by k__ » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

I used it back in the days with MSN, AIM, and ICQ. But it didn't work as good with the switch of communication to mobile and the rise of WhatsApp and FB Messenger.

Anyone got fresh experience?

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by mushufasa » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

the main maintainer livestreams his work on pidgin on twitch https://www.twitch.tv/rw_grim

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by zohvek » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

One of the main developers of pidgin streams on twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/rw_grim

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by olq » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

albertzeyer wrote: post #11

Adium ( https://adium.im/ ) used to be the MacOSX native version (port) of Pidgin. It seems they still recommend it. However, Adium seems kind of dead? Last commit ( https://github.com/adium/adium/ ) was in 2016. I build a MacOSX app bundle for the original Pidgin long time ago ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-macosx/ ). At that point in time, this was not so trivial, as the GTK support for native MacOSX was…

Looks like work is being done in a branch: https://github.com/adium/adium/commits/adium-1.5.11.asher.10...

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by memco » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

nautical wrote: post #7

kowlo wrote: post #4

I had no idea Pidgin still worked. I see support for WhatsApp and Signal, going to check it out now!

Last commit seems to be pretty old (~5 years) https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple/

Not sure that’s the right place to look for up to date code. I believe it is self hosted somewhere. The lead developer streams on twitch[0]. Last stream was about a day ago.

[0]: https://twitch.tv/rw_grim

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by chrismarlow9 » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

Nostalgia for meebo. Miss that thing, ahead of it's time.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by RogantisAgat » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #13

Two days ago Beeper, a (almost?) universal chat app, was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848278

I'd say the thing that makes Pidgin more attractive is the fact it's free, whereas Beeper is $10/mo (unless you host the entire stack yourself, and at that point you can't use the Beeper app). Granted, Beeper has mobile apps going for it.