<story><title>Chats are not dead yet</title><url>http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>click170</author><text>Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn&apos;t think it did.&lt;p&gt;I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) and Adium didn&apos;t, but I ended up not doing it and I thought the reason was because Pidgin doesn&apos;t do IRC.&lt;p&gt;Am I misinformed?</text></item><item><author>ciupicri</author><text>Pidgin is another multi-protocol popular option.</text></item><item><author>kaylarose</author><text>I can&apos;t tell the difference between IM and IRC in Adium. It&apos;s the best non-IRC, IRC client.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text>Er, no. That&apos;s like saying Linux is only CLI. It&apos;s outdated misinformation. There are loads of web clients, and you wouldn&apos;t believe what kinds of tech illiterate people I&apos;ve seen on some networks.</text></item><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Except that only techies are able to use IRC. You can throw this on a web server and anyone will be able to use it. You could use it for your church chat room or something.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Awesome Features!

    Beautiful default theme
    Join multiple rooms and start private conversations
    Get notified when new messages arrive
    Ignore spammers and people you don&apos;t like
    Moderation: Kick and ban users, change the subject of the room
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Um. So basically, they just reinvented IRC, based it on an XMPP backend and spiced it up with a load of funky buzzwords?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Both Pidgin and Adium are based on libpurple[1], which does support IRC.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.&quot;[2]&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Chats are not dead yet</title><url>http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>click170</author><text>Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn&apos;t think it did.&lt;p&gt;I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) and Adium didn&apos;t, but I ended up not doing it and I thought the reason was because Pidgin doesn&apos;t do IRC.&lt;p&gt;Am I misinformed?</text></item><item><author>ciupicri</author><text>Pidgin is another multi-protocol popular option.</text></item><item><author>kaylarose</author><text>I can&apos;t tell the difference between IM and IRC in Adium. It&apos;s the best non-IRC, IRC client.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text>Er, no. That&apos;s like saying Linux is only CLI. It&apos;s outdated misinformation. There are loads of web clients, and you wouldn&apos;t believe what kinds of tech illiterate people I&apos;ve seen on some networks.</text></item><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Except that only techies are able to use IRC. You can throw this on a web server and anyone will be able to use it. You could use it for your church chat room or something.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Awesome Features!

    Beautiful default theme
    Join multiple rooms and start private conversations
    Get notified when new messages arrive
    Ignore spammers and people you don&apos;t like
    Moderation: Kick and ban users, change the subject of the room
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Um. So basically, they just reinvented IRC, based it on an XMPP backend and spiced it up with a load of funky buzzwords?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krakensden</author><text>The Pidgin developers are also the libpurple developers- if Adium supports it, so does Pidgin.</text></comment>