Aaah I used it a long time ago, it was then called Gaim I believe. I also used the similarly named but jabber only Gajim. Good times :)
Interesting, I did not remember that it was once called Gaim.
Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
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Re: Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
#72oh pidgin. Throughout my life (as a millennial) chat went this way: 1. IRC 2. IRC, Yahoo messenger, Aol Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger (mostly based on your ISP in the early days) 3. All + Skype (video!! wow!) + Google messenger. *This was when pidgin was invaluable* (there was also some Duck app for macOS?) 4. Skype started charging and since everyone was on Facebook, everyone moved to Facebook messenger. Text mes…
1. Odigo & web based chats
2. ICQ
3. Trillian & QIP, mostly to connect to ICQ
4. Facebook chat
5. Google Hangouts, Allo, gmail chat
6. Back to Facebook Messenger because all my contacts use it, Slack for work
Re: Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
#73Great app. But development was hostile to new users willing to help report bugs. It was then I learned of the "if you can't fix it, then don't complain" crowd of OSS.
Re: Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
#74Why not Matrix with bridges?
I had really mixed experiences with the various Matrix bridges the last time I tried this. I might have to take another crack at it, though, to see if it's gotten any better.
Though, honestly, now that most people I know are on Signal, the only other messenger platform I care about is Slack, and given that's just for work, I'm not sure I care anymore...
Re: Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did I forget about iChat? That brings back memories. Mac 10.4 to 10.6 was glorious. The walled gardens got higher and less fun over the 2010's. Discord works but I am probably one generation too old to appreciate the meme-heavy communication style.
iChat had multi-party video calls and virtual backgrounds in 2008. It blows my mind when Apple talks about multi-party FaceTime calls like it's a new feature.
We had actual video phone calls in 2005, and with the advent of Smartphones they were essentially deprecated. Eventually, Smartphones became capable of making video calls over the Internet with 3G
Re: Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
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Does Adium not compile on newer versions of macOS? Development appears to have slowed down, but it doesn't look completely abandoned. I might try to feed it to Xcode on my hackintosh if only to see what kinds of errors crop up. That said, I've switched back to terminal-based IRC clients, so I haven't run either Pidgin or Adium in probably 10 years. It's sad. Both were really good tools.
Honestly, it's mostly a matter of Adium having lost its purpose. Most of the IM networks it originally interacted with no longer exist or are no longer open to third-party clients, and the ones that remain (mostly XMPP and IRC) aren't necessarily a great fit for Adium.
I’ve been surprised recently by the availability of plugins for libpurple (the lib on which Adium is based) which supports Telegram, Signal, Facebook …
Re: Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
#77Aaah I used it a long time ago, it was then called Gaim I believe. I also used the similarly named but jabber only Gajim. Good times :)
Interesting, I did not remember that it was once called Gaim.
it was for sure called gaim. one of the only usable aim clients that worked on linux in the 90s.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similar. 1. IRC 2. ICQ 3. MSN 4. IRC (again) 5. Skype and Facebook 6. WhatsApp 7. Facebook again 8. Still Facebook (very sticky) 9. IRC + Slack (some communities) + Discord (some communities) + Facebook/Whatsapp + Signal + Telegram + Matrix + Zulip Yeah, I think we need a new libpurple.
I started with Talk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software) But I guess that's because I'm Gen-X
Thank you! I remember that I had started on a chat system right before IRC, but could not for the life of me remember its name; though i knew that it was a simple name. Talk was the first thing that i started on, but once i learned that IRC allowed me to connect with folks around the world (at the time, Talk was limited to the single unix server that users were connected to, though that constraint was expanded beyond that later on if i recall correctly). Man, i remember those early days; what fun to marvel at chatting with others either across the university campus or - later on - across the world!
Re: Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
#79I still use Pidgin for XMPP and the increasingly-unreliable-Facebook-Messenger plugin, along with a Gnome extension that allows me to reply directly to chat popups from the notification no matter what virtual desktop I'm on. I really can't get that combination anywhere else in fact and I hope it never stops working. :)
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#80The plugin to connect Pidgin and Meta/Facebook messenger is dying. I think Pidgin may lose a lot of users if this in not solved. If someone want to help them : - https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/526 - https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/518
yeah, i do hope someone can do this. unfortunately i cannot but it is awesome.