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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 chipx86 »

chipx86 wrote: post #358
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…

I worked on Pidgin (Gaim, at the time), and was the original author of libpurple (now libgaim). Adium was a sister project that was originally completely different, but utilized some of our Protocol Plugins (aka prpls — basis for the name "libpurple"). It later utilized libgaim when it reached a certain level of maturity. I don't know whether Adium eventually moved fully onto libgaim. I seem to recall it only used it…

This typo-laden response brought to you by Very Little Sleep.

If it wasn't obvious, libgaim became libpurple, not the other way around. Too late to edit the parent comment, but felt I should clear that up.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by skinnymuch »

kypro wrote: post #377

Damn, it's been a while since I've thought about Pidgin. I used to use it every day a decade or so ago. I was thinking the other day how excited I got about Windows Phone 7 because of how they centralised chats and social feeds from multiple services under a single contact tile. Back then I could see a future where we wouldn't need to log onto Facebook to update our status, or sign into Skype to make a call, but we w…

Same with webOS having a central messaging app. It was buggy sometimes but it was early days and promising. So sad webOS died and then Windows Phone.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

underlines wrote: post #278
superkuh wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

a completely different story: when steam engines were replaced with the otto motor and cars became available to the general population, people were able to repair and understand the engines themselves. they had an understanding of mechanical principles. a few generations later, and only car nerds understand cars. everyone else has to go to a mechanic to understand why their car's engine won't start or why it sounds s…

Here's the difference: I don't think that being unable to repair your own car engine makes a car less useful. Sure, if your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, you might be stuck there for a while until you can get it towed, but that doesn't happen too often, and besides, what are the chances you'd be able to repair your car on the side of the road without special equipment or replacement parts?

But the number of things you can do with a computer expands enormously when you know just a little bit of bash scripting, or python, or even Excel!

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Khaine »

I miss the days of using trillian and Adium. It was great being able to talk w with all your friends in one place, even if they used different chat services.

So sad that this has disappeared, and what has replaced it is not as good, and in many ways a regression.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by serf »

teawrecks wrote: post #152
superkuh wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"She reevaluated her categorisation of me. Rather than being some faceless, keyboard tapping, socially inept, sexually inexperienced network monkey, she now saw me as a colleague. To people like her, technicians are a necessary annoyance. She'd be quite happy to ignore them all, joke about them behind their backs and snigger at them to their faces, but she knows that when she can't display her PowerPoint on the IWB s…

>God this is some top tier incel shit.

if you're going to shit on someone and their opinion at least give them the data they need to remediate the situation that you're unhappy about.

The author can't just say to themselves "Oh, apparently someone on the internet thinks that i'm acting too 'incel', let me just tune that down for the next essay." -- incel is too vague to pin down societies meaning of at any given time.

It's like booing someone off stage; it's rude and utterly useless except to express dismay.

It's about as useful to discourse as just saying "tl;dr 0/10"

Experiment i've been having fun with during the recent over-loaded word trend: Any time I hear 'cuck', 'beta', 'incel', or 'based' I ask the person to define it with context to how they used it.

So, my question : What did you mean? Can you define your usage of incel? What about the person made you relate them to the word?

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by paulryanrogers »

mqus wrote: post #380
spijdar wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a heads up, at least several of those are supported to varying degrees. Looks like WhatsApp is supported through its web API, and slack and telegram's protocols are supported. Facebook messenger is no go, though.

But facebook messenger at least used to work, I know I used it with pidgin before

Facebook used to support XMPP. Which predates their separate Messanger app.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Psype »

I discovered Pidgin in 2010. We could use chat system via a plug-in, and out school were using their "own" protocol for an internal chat system, AKA NetSoul. You either had the choice of the CLI NetSoul client, a GTK one not-so-great, or a plug-in into that awesome thing that is Pidgin.

Nowadays I use it For Lync, the Business version of Skype.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by tibu »

jandrese wrote: post #247
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #77

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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

Most of my friends are on stovepiped chat systems now. It's really annoying because chat providers have pretty much stopped providing third party APIs anymore so you have friends spread across Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, Tencent, WeChat, iMessage, and whichever chat system Google is using this month. I seriously miss the days when all of them would be in the same app no matter what service they were connected through…

I'm just planning to install Matrix and integrate all these services into one chat app so I wouldn't have to install all these clients.
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