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patrick6
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 Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: Anybody here use Pidgin? |
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Anybody here use Pidgin? I decided to switch back to using Pidgin from using Windows Live Messenger because there are some really sweet features built into Pidgin which I like a lot. There are only two complaints that I have though:
1. There are slow file-transfers over the MSN protocol.
2. Pidgin seems to randomly crash at least 3 or 4 times everyday when I use it.
Other than these two problems, I like it a lot. Anyways, does anybody know when the file-transfers will be of normal speed? Also, I heard that they recoded Pidgin entirely (from gaim), does this explain all of the crashing? When Pidgin was Gaim did it crash often?
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sinsboldly
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, I lived in Hawai'i for three years and learned and used 'da Kine' pidgin but that is probably not the topic you wished to discuss.
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pakled
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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never heard of it; but you can spend 24/7 learning about new packages...I just use Mozilla, and hope for the best... |
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kip
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Location: Las Vegas NV USA
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Gaim crashed on me a million times a day back when I first got it... I swear you couldnt get more than 4 or 5 sentences out.
And its slow on MSN cause microshaft wont share their source code. Its why nothing windows base works on a open-source platform. |
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ShizzleMacDaddy
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Joined: Apr 05, 2008
Age: 16
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Location: California
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to use pidgin for aim, yahoo, msn, and icq but for me the file transfers never worked and it would disconnect and not tell me so I would be talking to myself for 5 or so minutes until I realized that it was dead... |
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Kamex
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Age: 21
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I used to use Pidgin, but I grew very sick of all the problems with it. I then tried to switch to Windows Live Messenger, but I had several friends who refused to use anything but the AIM network, even though they all used a server-neutral product like Pidgin, so I had no choice but to keep Pidgin around for the majority of my contacts. Eventually, I became so sick of having to use it and so offended that people wouldn't add a Windows Live ID to their Pidgin IMs that I stopped talking to them and just used WLM. Since then, I've found Trillian, which is much nicer-looking than Pidgin and much better at what it does. It's more stable, and its feature set completely encloses Pidgin's as far as I can tell.
Right now, I'm using Kopete, which is Linux-only, but I have a Linux virtual machine I use for it and some other apps. It has a feature no other messenger has in that it displays buddy icons next to each group of messages by that person, instead of throwing it off in the corner or not using it at all. I very much like this because just like on forums, I have an easier time with icons than with names. Pidgin doesn't offer that. In fact, Pidgin doesn't seem to have any unique features, and even the core basics of IMing other people seems to be broken. Even having vowed to never touch the piece of garbage again, I still have friends that use it, and they keep missing my messages...
My recommendation is Kopete if you have Linux or are willing to use a VM, and Trillian otherwise. Pidgin is a piece of crap. I honestly think the only reason why it continues to exist is because it's open source and a lot of people are using it for only that reason. I briefly tried MirandaIM, but it only took about 20 minutes of being unable to get it to function at all until I realized it was useless. |
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fabshelly
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