Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client • Hacker News Board

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by whydoyoucare » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

Get it on iPhone, and people will use it. Yeah, yeah, license and all that are mere excuses, and it doesn't alter the fact :-/

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by unicornporn » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #142

aidenn0 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What chat protocol do you use it with?

XMPP , Discord , Skype , and Matrix .

Is there E2EE support for Matrix?

Edit: Nope. https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/18

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by blck » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #141

raarts wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My daughter (who teaches math at HS) asked me to create educational videos for her kids who don't know how to work a computer. They only know phones.

Kids can't use computers. http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

Thank you for linking this. I couldn't remember the link but was talking to my partner about this recently now that we're almost a year into distance learning with our son. She remarked how quickly he's picking up on using the computer. (He's using her old Macbook Air.)

I remarked that UI/UX is so simple nowadays that kids aren't gonna have the wherewithal to do their own troubleshooting for bigger issues and how irreparable a lot of devices are now the insides of computers are gonna be completely foreign to them.

Gonna bookmark this now.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by flatiron » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

morelisp wrote: post #149

leahey wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And GAIM was based on Gamera, the official AOL Linux client.

I don't think so - I believe the original GAIM client used the open TOC protocol, e.g. from TiK which was the official Tk-based AIM client, some years before Gamera.

I remember when they shut down TOC. I think that was close to the time it was renamed gaim to pidgin. My whole college career surrounded aol away messages. One time I put an away message of “Dave Matthew’s coming to play at our school. Click here for tickets” and directed them to goatse. Yeah I was super cool.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by pmlnr » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

hestefisk wrote: post #12

Does anyone know if the WhatsApp plugin works?

Yes, it is. You're looking for this: https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp

It has limitations, especially on media.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by flatiron » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC

tootie wrote: post #14

There's been such an enormous amount of churn in the IM client market for an industry that hasn't seen significant innovation since the days of dial-up.

I think discord/slack/teams seem to have shaken up the IM market recently.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by pmlnr » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC

beagle3 wrote: post #83

kowlo wrote: post #4

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

You are likely to be banned by WhatsApp even if it works for a couple of weeks; they are quite trigger happy if the client is suspect (which has happened with the pidgin plugin before)

Not with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp It connects to whatsapp web, that would be banning people based on their browser.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by saas_sam » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

tmpxgdqrcKFuG wrote: post #109

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.

I haven't used Adium in like 15 years but that honking noise will be with me for eternity.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by flatiron » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

creaturemachine wrote: post #23

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.

I will gladly sell my 5 digit ICQ number if it does.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by rco8786 » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

Holy cow, i had no idea Pidgin was still around