Using the Discord plugin for Pidgin as a lightweight alternative to the web client.

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  • purple-discord

    A libpurple/Pidgin plugin for Discord

  • You may have heard of Pidgin - the neat IM client supporting lots of protocols such as IRC, XAMPP and many others. One of its major features is its extensibility with plugins, and that's where things get interesting. Apparently a Pidgin plugin exists which lets it connect to Discord and do basic things such as sending messages and images with basic IRC limitations such as previous messages being cleared upon leaving. However I think it's still a much better experience compared to the bloated web client. So, a quick disclaimer - using anything other than the official Discord client is against the TOS. They won't outright ban you for it in most cases but still be warned. So in order to get this working you need an older version of Pidgin because 2.14.7 seems to not be working properly with XP. I've had great success with 2.14.1. Here's a quick link to the 2.14.1 installer. Next, go to the plugin's github page and download the 2 linked DLL files under the 'Windows' section in the readme. Put libjson-glib in the Pidgin installation folder and libdiscord in the plugins folder, then restart Pidgin. Next, go to Accounts and set up your Discord account after which you will have your servers pop up in your buddy list. It's this easy! https://imgur.com/WMBHXY2

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