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Johnno at 01:20, 30 April 2019

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 * [https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16801 XEP-0384: OMEMO encryption] - Whisper Systems Axolotl over XEP-0163: Personal Eventing Protocol.
-Here are instructions on how to fix them.
+This is compounded by the XMPP Standards Foundation, which has dwindled of late to about two people who actually bother to turn up to six monthly meetings, who seem to talk about anything other than progressing any fucking standards beyond "experimental". Meanwhile, here are instructions on how to fix them.
-=== XEP-0280: Message Carbons ===
+==== XEP-0280: Message Carbons ====
 There's now a Pidgin 2.x [https://github.com/gkdr/carbons/ plugin].
-=== XEP-0313: Message Archive Management ===
+==== XEP-0313: Message Archive Management ====
 This is the bit that lets the server stash messages sent to you while you're offline, and the client to sync the history when next online, also like Hangouts. Especially useful for multiuser chatrooms. A [https://github.com/CkNoSFeRaTU/pidgin/commits/master patch] potentially exists in the meantime. Pidgin 2.x is limited in its ability to store information on disk (unencrypted plain text, pretty much) which precludes implementing MAM without also implementing SQLite databases and so on.
-=== XEP-384: OMEMO Encryption ===
+==== XEP-384: OMEMO Encryption ====
 OMEMO is now an [https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html XEP] marked experimental, and there's now a Pidgin 2.x [https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/ plugin].

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	sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-c1 libjson-glib-1.0-0		sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-c1 libjson-glib-1.0-0
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		+	== Discord, Mattermost, RocketChat... ==
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		+	Eion Robb has been churning out libpurples for all sorts of other protocols too - have a look at the list of [https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins#Third-PartyPlugins third party plugins] on the Pidgin wiki.

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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-'''Pidgin''' is a multi-protocol IM client for Windows and *nix desktops (see Adium for Mac). Pidgin 2.x series is woefully crap in many technical ways, but mostly does what it says on the tin. Development on 2.x has been in maintenance mode since about 2011, and most dev effort is focused on the 3.0 branch, which is pretty much a ground-up rewrite.
+'''Pidgin''' is a multi-protocol IM client for Windows and *nix desktops (see Adium for Mac). Pidgin 2.x series is woefully crap in many technical ways, but mostly does what it says on the tin. Development on 2.x has been in maintenance mode since about 2011, and most dev effort (if any) is focused on the 3.0 branch, which is pretty much a ground-up rewrite, and still hasn't been released.
 == Missing XMPP XEPs ==
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 * [https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15508 XEP-0280: Message Carbons]
 * [https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15653 XEP-0313: Message Archive Management]
-* [https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16801 OMEMO chat encryption] - Whisper Systems Axolotl over XEP-0163: Personal Eventing Protocol, see [http://conversations.im/xeps/multi-end.html proposed XEP]
+* [https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16801 XEP-0384: OMEMO encryption] - Whisper Systems Axolotl over XEP-0163: Personal Eventing Protocol.
 Here are instructions on how to fix them.

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	* Use [[Prosody]] to run your own XMPP (jabber) server, it's easy.		* Use [[Prosody]] to run your own XMPP (jabber) server, it's easy.
−	* Use Conversations on your [[Android]] gadget.	+	* Use Conversations on your [[Android]] gadget, or [https://chatsecure.org/ ChatSecure] on your Apple gadget.

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 === XEP-384: OMEMO Encryption ===
-There's now a Pidgin 2.x [https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/ plugin].
+OMEMO is now an [https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html XEP] marked experimental, and there's now a Pidgin 2.x [https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/ plugin].
 == Facebook, Hangouts, and Steam ==

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−	'''Pidgin''' is a multi-protocol IM client for Windows and *nix desktops (see Adium for Mac). Pidgin 2.x series is woefully crap in many technical ways, but mostly does what it says on the tin. Development on 2.x has been in maintenance mode since about 2011, and most dev effort is focused on the 3.0 which is pretty much a ground-up rewrite.	+	'''Pidgin''' is a multi-protocol IM client for Windows and *nix desktops (see Adium for Mac). Pidgin 2.x series is woefully crap in many technical ways, but mostly does what it says on the tin. Development on 2.x has been in maintenance mode since about 2011, and most dev effort is focused on the 3.0 branch, which is pretty much a ground-up rewrite.

	== Missing XMPP XEPs ==		== Missing XMPP XEPs ==

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 * [https://github.com/EionRobb/pidgin-opensteamworks Steam], based on Valve's Open Steamworks API.
-These just involve running <tt>make</tt> and lobbing the .so into your <tt>~/.purple/plugins</tt> directory; see their respective README files for installation instructions.
+These just involve running <tt>make</tt> and lobbing the .so into your <tt>~/.purple/plugins</tt> directory; see their respective README files for installation instructions. You will need Google protobuffers and GLib JSON libraries too:
 == See also ==