I used it a lot way back. No complaints back then. Came back 6-12 months ago and both the Skype and Signal bridges were somewhat functional but silently stopped being connected and receiving messages very often.
Obv these kinds of things with unsupported potentially hostile APIs put high requirements of diligent maintenance.
IRC kept dropping connection and requiring new nickserv sign-in.
I thought libpurple/pidgin were mostly abandoned and that this would not be likely to improve , but it’s great to see that there’s hope and I might have been dismissing it prematurely.
Obv these kinds of things with unsupported potentially hostile APIs put high requirements of diligent maintenance.
IRC kept dropping connection and requiring new nickserv sign-in.
I thought libpurple/pidgin were mostly abandoned and that this would not be likely to improve , but it’s great to see that there’s hope and I might have been dismissing it prematurely.