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At some point I had MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and irc and pidgn came to save me. There were also cool places to hang out like Yahoo Games or a few of the location b
by hypercube33 2y ago
At some point I had MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and irc and pidgn came to save me.
There were also cool places to hang out like Yahoo Games or a few of the location based chat apps that were fun to connect to strangers and just chat.
Discord is so walled garden it's awful in this respect.
I also miss the VRML world builders like CyberTown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown
- totetsu 2y agothen you could try pidgin to connect them all from one app
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoPidgin was pretty awesome, though its underlying library was so riddled with vulnerabilities… I greatly enjoyed how with XMPP’s in-band registration you could do things like give each contact a unique XMPP address, only to be used with them. You could have unlimited (well, I never hit a limit) accounts, across a load of servers, proxies per account, unique OTR keys per account, etc. I don’t think the UI has really been surpassed either, tbh. I really wish someone would do a modern rewrite of Pidgin in some memory safe language.
- rw_grim 2y agoResponsibly disclosing security issues is paramount to software security. See https://pidgin.im/about/security/advisories/ https://pidgin.im/about/security/advisories/ for a full break down. That said, the vulnerabilities in "libpurple" were way over hyped by someone who rightfully got kicked out of the security community. Most of those vulnerabilities were in fact in protocol implementations that are plug-ins to libpurple and not libpurple itself. I know it's a technicality, but hearing this blatant lie get repeated for over a decade is exhausting.