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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).

Pidgin supports lots of protocols, including xmpp, via plugins. It just sounds like they choose to make breaking changes to the plugin API for v3. I'd expect popular protocols to get ported at some point before GA.

Yes this 100%. As the post says, nearly all of the API in libpurple and pidgin has changed. So we have to rewrite all of the protocols yet.

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...

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