Pretty certain pidgin relies on gtk2 which is pretty dead. Most of the supported protocols are also dead, or woefully outdated like XMPP and IRC.
They've been working on a version 3 for years but no idea if that will ever happen.
They've been working on a version 3 for years but no idea if that will ever happen.
As for version 3, yeah turns out that things take a very long time a tiny team that has zero financial support.