Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
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Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#2Eion Robb has done an incredible amount of work in this space. His GitHub page[1] has tons of plugins, and I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users.
Lest you think this is less than cool because you don't use Pidgin, bitlbee[2] is a great tool to get slack (and others!) into your IRC client. I haven't run it myself, but I know that it heavily relies on purple[3] for its magic. I can tell it gets a lot of use, perusing the issues on the slack purple plugin[4] for example.
1: https://github.com/EionRobb?tab=repositories
2: https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
4: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#3There was a brief period in the aughts when Pidgin and libpurple covered almost all messaging platforms in a single application. AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, IRC, you name it. You could even layer on encryption with the OTR plugin, message logging, automation and countless other plugins.
At the time I took this for granted and didn't appreciate just how wonderful it was.
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#4There was a brief period in the aughts when Pidgin and libpurple covered almost all messaging platforms in a single application. AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, IRC, you name it. You could even layer on encryption with the OTR plugin, message logging, automation and countless other plugins. At the time I took this for granted and didn't appreciate just how wonderful it was.
It took a while, but it's gotten pretty good again. Harder to get plugins running than it used to be, but now there's Slack, Matrix, Teams, and (shameless plug) GroupMe[1]. Works well enough for me these days :)
1: https://github.com/djhaskin987/groupme-purple . Kudos to its original author, Alyssa Rosenzweig :)
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#5There was a brief period in the aughts when Pidgin and libpurple covered almost all messaging platforms in a single application. AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, IRC, you name it. You could even layer on encryption with the OTR plugin, message logging, automation and countless other plugins. At the time I took this for granted and didn't appreciate just how wonderful it was.
With TTS and STT it felt like a super power
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#6There was a brief period in the aughts when Pidgin and libpurple covered almost all messaging platforms in a single application. AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, IRC, you name it. You could even layer on encryption with the OTR plugin, message logging, automation and countless other plugins. At the time I took this for granted and didn't appreciate just how wonderful it was.
Don't forget facebook and google chat (when they were both jabber based)
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#7There was a brief period in the aughts when Pidgin and libpurple covered almost all messaging platforms in a single application. AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, IRC, you name it. You could even layer on encryption with the OTR plugin, message logging, automation and countless other plugins. At the time I took this for granted and didn't appreciate just how wonderful it was.
Company I worked for from 2012-2016 still uses the OpenFire + Pidgin approach for internal IM that I set up around 2013-ish.
I couldn't pry it from their hands. All the employees loved it.
OTR did work well. But causes some small issues with other plugins. I still love how customizable everything was. Both on the server and client.
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#8pidgin + libpurple is great, and it makes interacting with Slack and other chat systems I use daily so much better. It's too bad libpurple clients seem to have withered on other platforms (what happened to Adium?)
I really miss the days of a unified chat application (anyone remember how amazon the chat app on the Palm Pre was? It'd seamlessly switch between jabber/aol/messenger and sms)
I've even written my own libpurple plugins for chat systems I've had to use. I do wish libpurple had better tutorials and documentation though!
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#9I used Pidgin around 15+ years ago. Around the time of MSN messenger. Cool that it is still around although this reminder of it has made me long for the days I would log on to my PC and chat with my friends (IRL and Online).
Now I'm more connected than ever - I have everyone I know IRL on WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Instagram - but also never chat to people in the same way. I only chat to people I don't know IRL through sites like HN or Reddit which, in 7+ years, has never led to a connection with someone.
Re: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
#10I'll run this if only so I can have multiple DMs side by side in very small windows. Not sure why the Teams people are so resistant to having that.