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2026-08-14 01:52:56 UTC

I (@nprofile…ggyn) am going to state this as clearly as possible here in the hopes it'll propagate quickly.
#Pidgin, and the other projects we maintain alongside it, have never and will never knowingly accept AI-assisted anything.
We proudly respect all licenses, #OpenSource and proprietary, and will not taint our license with whatever you think AI-generated code is licensed under.
A more formal document is now in the works in the hopes that our precious volunteer time will be spared.
#FuckAI

2026-06-13 22:24:45 UTC

Greetings everyone, in case you missed it, there has been a malware outbreak on the #Arch Linux User Repository. Fortunately, Pidgin itself has not affected, but the following third party plugins were:
* pidgin-cmds
* pidgin-im-gnome-shell-extension
* pidgin-kwallet
* pidgin-nudge-svn
If you have updated any of those in the past 48 hours or so, please update immediately.
We have a more through write up at https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/compromised-pidgin-plugins-in-the-arch-user-repository/390.
#Pidgin #AUR #Malware

2025-12-17 19:48:41 UTC

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@nprofile…083c Though I said "we're good"...

2025-12-15 18:44:20 UTC

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@nprofile…083c yeah we're good ..

2025-12-15 18:23:45 UTC

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@nprofile…083c 🤣

2025-10-09 21:20:49 UTC

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@nprofile…y8en If you are interested, there are many non-code ways to contribute. https://pidgin.im/development/contributing/

2025-06-09 18:47:24 UTC

Heya everyone! The State of the Bird for May 2025 has been posted! Check it out!!
https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/state-of-the-bird-may-2025/
#StateOfTheBird #sotb #OpenSource #Retrospective

2025-01-02 23:38:02 UTC

And the Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 release (and it's update) are up on Flathub Beta now! Don't know how to use Flathub Beta? Well we put together some instructions for you! https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-on-flathub-beta/230
#OpenSource #Pidgin #Messaging #Pidgin #Flatpak #FlatpakBeta

2025-01-01 04:41:23 UTC

After way too many years the very first release of Pidgin 3.0, Experimental 1 has been released! You can read all about it over on our official Discourse post!! https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-1-has-been-released/227
#OpenSource #Pidgin #Chat #Messaging #Release

2024-11-22 18:32:20 UTC

Whelp, we finally committed to releasing an experimental release of Pidgin 3.0 by the end of the year! To be clear, this is a **pre-alpha** release, but you can read more here https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-0-experimental-1-announcement/216
#OpenSource #Pidgin #UniversalChat #IRCv3

2024-08-23 20:53:50 UTC

Heya everyone, I thought I posted this here last night, but apparently I didn't..
I regret to inform you that the Screen Shot Off The Record plugin that we linked to briefly was found to have a key logger and was sending screen shots to unwanted parties.
So if you have this plugin installed, you will want to remove it immediately.
You can see our official post about this at https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/
We are planning a more indepth post in the near future.