Hacker News: rw_grim

New comment by rw_grim in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

rw_grim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:48:33 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

rw_grim — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:25:16 +0000

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.

Gaim 3 Exists

rw_grim — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:15:45 +0000

Article URL: https://gaim.imfreedom.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594201

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1 (2.95.0) has been released

rw_grim — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:29:49 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-alpha-1-2-95-0-has-been-released/378

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593046

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by rw_grim in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

rw_grim — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:25:21 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

rw_grim — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:24:06 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

rw_grim — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:00:23 +0000

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.

New comment by rw_grim in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

rw_grim — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:54:53 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

rw_grim — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:55:01 +0000

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.

New comment by rw_grim in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

rw_grim — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:07:38 +0000

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.

New comment by rw_grim in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

rw_grim — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:55:23 +0000

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...

New comment by rw_grim in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

rw_grim — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:36:21 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

rw_grim — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:59:36 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

rw_grim — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:58:48 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

rw_grim — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:24:17 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

rw_grim — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:38:41 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

rw_grim — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:26:05 +0000

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

New comment by rw_grim in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

rw_grim — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:24:42 +0000

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.

Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released

rw_grim — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:54:29 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-5-2-94-0-has-been-released/338

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451682

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rw_grim in "Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++"

rw_grim — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:51:05 +0000

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