Pidgin: Pidgin, the Universal Chat Client

• adium

  4 285 0.0 Objective-C

  Adium is an open source and free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.

  

Adium (https://adium.im/) used to be the MacOSX native version (port) of Pidgin. It seems they still recommend it. However, Adium seems kind of dead? Last commit (https://github.com/adium/adium/) was in 2016.

I build a MacOSX app bundle for the original Pidgin long time ago (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-macosx/). At that point in time, this was not so trivial, as the GTK support for native MacOSX was very experimental. You could simply use the X11 GTK version but I rather wanted to have a native version. I have no idea what the current state is with GTK on MacOSX. This Pidgin build is obviously very outdated now (from 2009), and probably does not run on recent MacOSX versions (they are frequently breaking backward compatibility...).

• awesome-pidgin-plugins

  3 10 1.8

  A list of Pidgin plugins to support modern networks and features

I have a github repo to collect plugins that makes Pidgin a bit more up to date on all levels. Pull requests welcome:

https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• purple-gowhatsapp

  10 263 7.6 C

  Pidgin/libpurple plugin for WhatsApp Web.

Yes, it is. You're looking for this: https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp

It has limitations, especially on media.

• purple-facebook

  14 954 0.0 C

  Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple (moved from jgeboski/purple-facebook)

It looks like they reverse-engineered the Android client.

https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook

• purple-hangouts

  3 46 0.0 C

Still works well through https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-hangouts. (I'm only using that through bitlbee-purple, not via Pidgin, but that should be largely irrelevant.)

• cordless

  16 1,349 9.0 Go

  Discontinued The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted.

Well, sadly there's the fact that Discord has finally pulled out the official laser beams for the alternative client scene, such that Cordless recently called it quits: https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless

Ripcord (https://cancel.fm/ripcord/) doesn't seem to be giving any indications that it no longer works, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (and probably for fairly large values of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ too)

My computer is generally only able to handle one Chromium-based HI I EAT ALL YOUR RAM AND GPU, so I basically treat Discord like email as a result of the no-3rd-party-app policy.

Furthermore, given that the Discord "app" is just Electron, it'll get in a fight with the poor thermal design of my laptop in exactly the same way on the website does.

TL;DR, Discord has scaled to the point where "13 year old skiddies who like pulling legs off spiders are using alternate clients to send a {server,reputation}-destroying level of spam" is having a more measurable impact than "we need to maintain equality of access".

I suspect that extremely strong management vision+competence would be necessary to prioritize equality of access. As things stand right now, it's incredibly easy to deprioritize because the vast majority of people using Discord either have minimally-viably decent machines appropriate for playing games or completing actual day jobs.

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