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We're rewriting everything out of necessity. Right now IRC is the most well supported but Zulip is half implemented with just DMs right now but channels will be coming soon.

There are third party plugins in varying degrees of completeness for YouTube, signal, whatsapp, twitch, and hdhome run. More info on those here https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/purple-3-pidgin-3-gaim-3-p...

and AIM even had an XMPP bridge for a _very_ short time.

See pidgin.im/plugins for modern protocol support.

As for version 3, yeah turns out that things take a very long time a tiny team that has zero financial support.

I assure you stuff like OSCAR (the protocol for AIM and ICQ) is anything but simple and was a huge effort by many people to reverse engineer.

If you want to use Pidgin with it, check out https://github.com/pidgin/retro-prpl

We (Pidgin) can't fix issues we don't know about. Please report them so we can fix them.

Yep, it's hard to run a volunteer project when there's so much work to do...

We've retired the blog in favor of just posting on our discourse as noted in our last blog post ;)

The networks you remember fondly in Pidgin (AIM, Y!M, MSN, ICQ, etc) didn't have external APIs to connect to either.

Pidgin is still here although I'm behind on the monthly updates... https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird/1

What's wrong with Pidgin? Also what protocols have you written?

For the full reasoning see this page https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords which is now back online. It was accidentally broken in a recent server migration.

That said, purple3/pidgin3 (still in development) only supports for keyrings and doesn't try to do any password management on its own even though password managers fall into the "Store a password(s) behind a password" as detailed on the above page.

well now you know ;) https://pidgin.im/plugins/

We never went anywhere and have support for modern protocols... See https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/news and https://pidgin.im/plugins/

I am the current lead developer of Pidgin, and would like to reinforce the level of collaboration in the XMPP world. Even with Pidgin being very far behind in XMPP (and everything else) everyone has been very helpful as we're trying to catch back up and answering questions about the prosody instance we run ourselves.

We're still here... https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/news

Pidgin is a universal client that supports many protocols/networks including IRC, XMPP, and has additional third party plugins from stuff like Discord and Slack.

That sounds great! I literally just wrote the initial skeleton last night so there's lots of work to do so any help is greatly appreciated! I'm hoping to have something somewhat usable by the end of the month.

This is great to hear and ironically we (Pidgin) just decided that Zulip was going to be the next protocol we were going to add support for just barely 24 hours ago before all this Discord nonsense!

https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/protocols-to-support/234/1...

We (Pidgin) are still around.. You may be interested in our state of the bird posts to see what we've been up to. https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird

See the known issues on the page I linked? https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/blob/whatsme...

Kind of.. Getting a login cookie is difficult, but doable-ish https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-googlechat

Well you can have it now... https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/

You all know that we're still around and have been working on the next major release for quite a while now right?

You might be interested in our state of the bird posts... https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird

We've never left. https://pidgin.im/

Pidgin is still here and does work (to some level) with all of those protocols. https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Protoco...

We've been working on our next major release for a long time now to better support modern protocols. But as an unfunded Open Source project it's hard to get things done quickly when it's a "free time" only project.

You could just use libpurple to do all the im stuff and literally just write a user interface. That said, purple 2 isn't really designed for modern chat networks, but we're trying to solve that with the still unreleased purple3.

You may be interested in our State of the Birds which cover libpurple and pidgin development. https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird

We (Pidgin) probably could have kept that code working if we had access to a server. But we didn't, and it bitrot, so we've since archived it to https://github.com/pidgin/retro-prpl/tree/main/sametime

We're working hard on getting back to that, but it takes time, and we're an unfunded open source project, but soon maybe?

You may be interested in our monthly updates https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird

That was due to a trademark violation and nothing to do with TOS.