Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

I had no idea people were still working on this. I remember it as Gaim in the 1990s and one of the developers being particularly nasty to me in 2000 after I submitted a patch. I worked hard on that and he was a complete asshole.

Since then I've used that experience to exemplify who I never want to become and how I never want to treat people.

So thanks. Bad experiences can help you become a better person.

PS: shoutout to Daniel Reed (rpidan) who did an Ncurses naim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naim_(software) // https://github.com/jwise/naim) from back then. He was a genuine upstanding guy. Naim in long running screen sessions that I'd log into from text terminals at the library to chat with friends over AIM - good times.

Also, meebo... Basically libpurple over 2005 era AJAX. I even made a super minimal HTTP forms based client I could use over flip phones in the early 2000s. It was optimized for T9N and per/KB metered data plans. Never really publicized it. Probably still have the code somewhere.

Well fwiw, all of those people are no longer involved in the project.

Yes, there was some drama in the early 2000s where a bunch of bad vibe people got forcefully shaken out.

I did some digging and have been able to find basically everything. I'm keeping it to myself. No dirty laundry here.

Also if pidgin could magically combine slack, messenger, telegram, discord, and Whatsapp in a single reasonable app ... It'd be a return to the glory days. The current state of half a dozen web apps is such a pain. Just text chat. Nothing fancy.

What a dream...