On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 12:38 PM Amelia Rose Khan <shawn.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the benefit of Adium these days? I like the interface and having > multiple services in one place but people have moved on to individual > software that do 10 times more. Has the user base of Pidgin grown over the > years? > The user base of Pidgin has been waning over the years, but a lot of that can be accounted for by lack of releases/support because contributors have "lifed out". That is, they started careers and/or families and they just don't have time to contribute anymore. Three years ago (January 2016) when I took over Pidgin my focus has been on getting Pidgin3 and libpurple3 released while making the code base more approachable so that we can attract and maintain new contributors which is something we've been struggling to do since the early 2000's. > Are these protocols still growing or used by enough people to warrant them > in one place? AIM Bonjour Gadu-Gadu Google Talk Groupwise ICQ IRC SILC > SIMPLE Sametime XMPP Zephyr. Even people said in this thread they moved to > Slack or some similar software and not using IRC. > Third party plugins have always been the life blood of Pidgin, adding new unique features that wouldn't necessarily be considered into mainline immediately. As such, there is a large list of third party protocol plugins at https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins. You'll notice there's a slack plugin there as well. We're still working on cleaning up the voice and video bits in the 3.0 code base, but that is a priority now as people use it every day. > I feel the issue is the number of developers who work on the project. A > lot of the developers got busy with life and that is great. > Yep! See my earlier comments about "lifing out" :) > Thanks, -- Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com>
