I can't believe this is still going. I used this back in the day as the superior AIM client. This was truly a blast from the past that I didn't expect in 2025.
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And they're still on Sourceforge!
I remember it for the same reason. Pretty cool that the project is still going
I remember that I switched to this from Trillian back in the day.
Whatever happened to Trillian? Really liked its design back then.
Sad but true.
Gaim❤️
Interesting, that's a name I didn't hear in a long time!
I'm wondering if matrix support is planned at some point (maybe even natively, I've seen that there is a plugin for it but the last commit to that was 2 years ago)
Honestly i didn't even know this was still a thing
Ι hope they stop all their old protocols, and include only xmpp, matrix, irc, and maybe a couple more relevant ones, but drop msn/icq etc old stuff.
The key is modules. Then people can use the protocols that work, even if they're a little stale.
I think ICQ, AIM and MSN messenger are all dead now. WhatsApp works on Matrix via a bridge. Not sure about other platforms.
It doesn't work well with XMPP unfortunately
Using gajim but will go back to pidgin when it adds xmpp to v3.
Is it gonna be rebuilt on LibAdwaita?
yes
Initially Pidgin 3 supported both GTK+ 2 and 3 but shortly after Gary took over, GTK+ 2 support was dropped. A few years later, it was then decided we should just bite the bullet and move to GTK 4 instead, as GTK+ 3 was no longer being actively developed which meant we were just creating tech debt. As part of the GTK 4 migration we also pulled in Adwaita even though we’re not an official GNOME application.
Aww man (well it's fine but ngl libAdwaita fits poorly outside of gnome)
looks like it, yeah
I wonder if Finch is still around.
Love that this is still going, spent literally hours and hours on this for MSN a long time ago
Tell me it's rewritten in Rust, and I'll orgasm.
It won't be 😔