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The idea is to slow them down and make it harder. We don't have the time, resources, or expertise to examine every plugin which is precisely why we don't host or provide binaries for external plugins.

Surprise, this is just an index of plugins on a webpage and not in app at all...

A more in-depth post will be coming soon. I'm working on the first draft of it tonight on everything that happened.

Yeah we're still here and trying to get an experimental pre-alpha release of Pidgin3 out by the end of the year. Unfortunately basically everything had to change to support modern chat features, so initial protocol support is going to be very light.

We're finally gearing up to have an experimental release of Pidgin 3.0 by the end of the year, but the goal right now only include the IRC protocol. But everything has been updated to support all of the newer chat features so support for other protocols should come quick.

You may want to see the full plugin list as well https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Protoco...

If there's something we're missing, please let me know!

It's an issue with libpurple and the user interfaces. It's something we'll ideally be tackling in the next few months in purple3/pidgin3 as we get closer and closer to an alpha release.

Last I checked the homebrew version of pidgin was native...

Responsibly disclosing security issues is paramount to software security. See https://pidgin.im/about/security/advisories/ for a full break down.

That said, the vulnerabilities in "libpurple" were way over hyped by someone who rightfully got kicked out of the security community. Most of those vulnerabilities were in fact in protocol implementations that are plug-ins to libpurple and not libpurple itself. I know it's a technicality, but hearing this blatant lie get repeated for over a decade is exhausting.

We're working hard on that update.. But volunteers only have so much time, but hopefully we'll have an alpha soon (tm).

We're still hard at work trying to get support for new chat features in Pidgin. You can find our quarterly updates here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUmrAdJiXFMVZXy5DIrL8...

I believe EveryBuddy was the first multiprotocol client, but then Gaim got revived and took a bunch of the work the EveryBuddy developers did. As time went on Gaim became Pidgin, and EveryBuddy became Ayttm.

Thank you for apologizing.

That's what tech crunch and others are reporting https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/wordpress-com-owner-automa...

Yeah I know, I was just using the opportunity to vent some frustration :)

Yep it's a great place to be especially when the CEO from a company punches down on a volunteer project on the day that CEO sold their company for 125 Million USD... /s

It did last I knew, but I don't use teams so I don't know for certain.

We're still here and still supporting tons of stuff... https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Protoco...

I wrote more on this topic here https://dev.to/grim/why-is-there-no-mobile-version-of-pidgin...

FWIW, Pidgin is still very much alive, we even had a release in February... Also not sure what "very open Pidgin" means as we're 100% GPLv2 but whatever.

It's essentially a brand new program/library now.

even then it'd be open source so people could just write their own versions

You're very welcome, thanks for using it!

You might also be interested in my State of the Bird presentations as well that happen quarterly. https://pidgin.im/posts/2023-01-state-of-the-bird-2022-q4/

I'm planning on doing all sorts of tutorials for pidgin 3 when it gets closer to release. Things are so much different that it's going to be a requirement to get people to port stuff :)

Yeah we're trying to tackle the usability stuff in Pidgin 3. Unfortunately due to API guarantees we just can't make the changes people want in purple2/pidgin2, so it is what it is. We are nearing an alpha soon (tm) (no date set) but they goal is to have basic pidgin 2 functionality with the ability to add all the new features.

I have a public blog post on my patreon that goes into some more detail if you're interested. https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-were-with-3-78291546

Looks like I need to update this page then :-D https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=groupme&type=...

We're still here!! And there's a ton of support for stuff via third party protocols. I know it's not ideal, but things will get easier when Pidgin 3 finally gets closer to a release.

See this page for a list of all the third party protocol support https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Protoco...

You may be interested to know that Pidgin 3 is targeting macOS natively. We don't have a release date yet, but we are inching closer and closer to an alpha which I've written a blog post about what we're targeting with it. Yes this is on patreon but it's public https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-were-with-3-78291546

You can pretend it's the 90's and 00's if you like at https://gaim.pidgin.im/