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Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

jdlyga wrote: post #49

Does 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.

Don't forget the numerous add-ons, skins if I remember correctly end-to-end encryption was just a PGP add-on away and you're right pidgin was one of the first things I installed on Linux machines and it's clone Adium for Mac OSX[1].

Sadly I don't do real-time communication anymore and even if I do I don't think any of my pidgin/adium (XMPP) contacts still use them.

[1] https://adium.im/

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #77
jdlyga wrote: post #49

Does 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 finally stopped using it when Google Chat[0] went away.

[0] Not that Google Chat, the other one.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

#103

Post by lsaferite »

RL_Quine wrote: post #67
asah wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Developer+Agreement+5+... TIL it's now 10 devices...

Why would that ever be a consideration?

Distribution restrictions on top of GPL and they don't own the copyright on all the code without a CLA which prevents licensing under something other than GPL for the App Store.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by AshamedCaptain »

citrusybread wrote: post #91
upbeatlinux wrote: post #82

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?

Well, interacting with local platform keyrings _would_ be an actual improvement over storing them as text files, because platform keyrings _can_ actually do something.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

#105

Post by finiteseries »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #77
jdlyga wrote: post #49

Does 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

Mate, the general population increasingly don’t even use desktops or laptops for personal usage anymore let alone a desktop OS specific IM client from the early 2000s.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

#106

Post by shoeffner »

RL_Quine wrote: post #67
asah wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Developer+Agreement+5+... TIL it's now 10 devices...

Why would that ever be a consideration?

iPad, iPod, iPhone, MBP, iMac, AppleWatch, ... oh, that's already six devices tied to the same account.

I think the idea is that you don't tie all your friends' devices to your account to share apps etc., but I am just guessing.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

#107

Post by wruza »

ehsankia wrote: post #64
jdlyga wrote: post #49

Does 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.

I still have my .purple backup. It even had a Steam plugin I recall which was great since Steam itself didn't have chat logs.

If anyone is curious why it is called .purple, here you go: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by tmpxgdqrcKFuG »

jdlyga wrote: post #49

Does 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.

I miss Adium

Trillian used to be like Pidgin and Adium on Windows but then they went and made its own IM service.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

#110

Post by Svperstar »

jdlyga wrote: post #49

Does 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.

Years ago I setup a doctors office to use Pidgin with the Bonjour protocol for local IMs that wouldn't go over the internet. Worked well. Free too.
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