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Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

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89 points rw_grim | 1 comments | 22 Nov 24 04:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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relyks ◴[22 Nov 24 06:28 UTC] No.42211603[source]▶
Am I reading this right? Is the only protocol being supported now the most recent version of IRC? Are there plans for others? Part of Pidgin's "calling card" has been its ability to support many different chat protocols. However, that's become difficult since most protocols have become walled gardens and harder to reverse engineer. I'd imagine supporting Matrix, XMPP, Signal, other protocols with open specifications, etc. would be a good idea
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rw_grim ◴[22 Nov 24 06:32 UTC] No.42211624[source]▶
yes all the other protocols will eventually be supported. we're a small team of open source developers and these things take time..
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johnisgood ◴[22 Nov 24 08:11 UTC] No.42212017[source]▶
Not sure if my memory deceives me, but did not Pidgin support XMPP?

I suppose for now I may stick to Gajim (and Conversations on Android).

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1. usr1106 ◴[22 Nov 24 08:37 UTC] No.42212144[source]▶
Sure it did. Our company chat was XMPP 10 years ago and pidgin was one of the most widely used clients. I assume it's just the experimental version that doesn't support it yet.

Nowadays we use zulip at work which has a better model (topics). For IRC I use quassel because I can have the backend running on a server and when I connect using the frontend I see the channel history and messages I might have received weeks ago...