Does Pidgin still store passwords in a plaintext file in your user profile?
what else are they going to do? encrypt the files and store the key... somewhere? interact with local keyrings which aren't compatible across all platforms?
Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
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Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#92Considering this is open source (which I'm assuming includes the plugins), wouldn't this be a much better alternative to the native apps on mobile? Curious as to why this hasn't been ported to Android/iOS. I'd much prefer this over apps that need permission to my blood type to function. Pidgin was great back in the day for convenience, but there is a legitimate argument to be made for privacy here too. EDIT: It just…
Background execution restrictions mean you would not be able to be online except when the app was in the foreground for the most part on iOS; on Android, you have inconsistent access to cpu and network in the background.
You really need push notifications, but AFAIK, push tokens are tied to the app developer; you can't give an random server a token from your app, because they won't be able to push to you.
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#93Oof I still remember the update that disabled re-sizing of the text box and people were up in arms about it. And there was a fork of Pidgin over it.
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#94I 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/
The repository list linked from the Pidgin website seems to be pretty active: https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#95Ah! the glorious days of integrated chat clients.
I had friends of MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk and for a very limited time ICQ (Actually it was the same guys on all networks :) ). There weren't any network effort, people were willing to try out different IMs for their uniqueness.
Lots of companies were trying to produce integrated chat clients - Pidgin, Meebo, Trillian, Digsby and a whole lot of guys on Mobile targeting Symbian OS (could recollect only Nimbuzz though.) I loved Digsby because it acted as a POP client too.
I even worked for a company that forked Ignite Realtime Spark and tried adding Gtalk and MSN support. When I was freelancing one guy asked me to clone meebo for $500 .. and I accepted :facepalm.
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#96Does nobody remember Pidgin? It was one of the first things a lot of people installed on their machines 15 years ago along with Firefox. We used it as an alternative client to AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. It used to be called GAIM.
Does not everyone still use it? I and most of my friends do. They are also responsible for my favorite bug report ever: https://bugs.gentoo.org/35890
At a certain point some services didn't work anymore, or not fully feature full.
So yeah, ditched it
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#97Considering this is open source (which I'm assuming includes the plugins), wouldn't this be a much better alternative to the native apps on mobile? Curious as to why this hasn't been ported to Android/iOS. I'd much prefer this over apps that need permission to my blood type to function. Pidgin was great back in the day for convenience, but there is a legitimate argument to be made for privacy here too. EDIT: It just…
Not sure if this has changed, but at least on why it's not on iOS [1]: > In a nutshell, the Apple Developer Agreement is the biggest "problem" preventing a Pidgin build for iOS devices. We won't quote the exact text here, but the Agreement requires that developers allow Apple to impose additional restrictions on applications above and beyond the application's own license. Among these additional restrictions are the w…
I wonder if you could just compile it to webassembly as a progressive web app at this point...
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#98Using it since a decade, I faced bugs in the PGP encryption add on, they need to work on a lot of things to make it secure. This is my go-to Jabber client.
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#99Does nobody remember Pidgin? It was one of the first things a lot of people installed on their machines 15 years ago along with Firefox. We used it as an alternative client to AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. It used to be called GAIM.
Does not everyone still use it? I and most of my friends do. They are also responsible for my favorite bug report ever: https://bugs.gentoo.org/35890
> i do not know which is funnier, that sean actually submitted this bug, or that you all are so stereotypically gentoo users as to take it seriously.
and then marked as duplicate.
seems like a lot of arguing went on on this bug tracker, very amusing to read
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#100Ah! the glorious days of integrated chat clients. I had friends of MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk and for a very limited time ICQ (Actually it was the same guys on all networks :) ). There weren't any network effort, people were willing to try out different IMs for their uniqueness. Lots of companies were trying to produce integrated chat clients - Pidgin, Meebo, Trillian, Digsby and a whole lot of guys on Mob…
Miranda IM, anyone?