[kwlug-disc] Cross Platform Messaging Clients

Nick Guenther nguenthe at uwaterloo.ca
Mon May 16 18:24:40 EDT 2016


On May 13, 2016 12:19:06 PM EDT, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
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>Jason wrote:
>> True, but [Pidgin]'s never been terribly good at IRC.
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>Hm.. I use Pidgin only for XMPP and IRC. I've never been able to
>figure out Hexchat, for example, and if dedicated IRC clients offer
>features that Pidgin doesn't then those are features I haven't needed.
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>My worry is that Pidgin development is stagnant, and what development
>does occur isn't addressing well-documented vulnerabilities.
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>Perhaps we need a KWLUG Night of the Chat Client Shootout?
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This is a great idea. I have so many opinions on this.
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Nick Guenther
Joint Stats/CS
University of Waterloo





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