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I had no idea Pidgin still worked. I see support for WhatsApp and Signal, going to check it out now!

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Last commit seems to be pretty old (~5 years)

https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple/

Not sure that’s the right place to look for up to date code. I believe it is self hosted somewhere. The lead developer streams on twitch[0]. Last stream was about a day ago.

[0]: https://twitch.tv/rw_grim

So? That doesn't mean it doesn't still work. I use it every day as my Hangouts[0] client at work[1].

[0] Technically it's a Google Talk client, but it seems to be able to communicate fine with Hangouts users for now.

[1] Yes we use Hangouts at work for intradepartmental chat.

The repository list linked from the Pidgin website seems to be pretty active: https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/

whatsapp existed 5 years ago o.0

The nice thing about modular, open source software, is that instead of using the 5 year old client, you can use the one that was last updated two months ago:

https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/

You are likely to be banned by WhatsApp even if it works for a couple of weeks; they are quite trigger happy if the client is suspect (which has happened with the pidgin plugin before)

Not with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp It connects to whatsapp web, that would be banning people based on their browser.

I used it for years up until about two years ago. The UI is from ca. 2000, it is okay for one on one chat and that’s about it. I honestly like IRC clients much better. The world has been taken over by slack and its clones for a reason.

Personally, I prefer an application that supports advanced features like opening multiple windows.

same! im amazed it was still going and adding so many integrations.

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