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WD-42yesterday at 3:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

It wasn’t popular? I remember using pidgin to talk to friends on google chat, facebook and my work contacts. It was glorious.

I haven’t had a reason to use an xmpp client in over a decade.


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jjrhyesterday at 6:07 PM

Likely you do or have without knowing it. The protocol is used in telecom quite a bit for all sorts of things. Jitsi is built on XMPP. Lots of games use it for chat - league of legends and unreal engine I believe. Xmpp shows up in all sorts of places if you look.

kombineyesterday at 5:17 PM

Same! Pidgin was such a great piece of software

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