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PidginChat Shutdown #OpenSource #Community #Chat
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Sep 26, 2026
Status of the Quail project #OpenSource #Chat #Community
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Aug 26, 2026
Logon.chat a new community AIM/ICQ server #RetroComputing #Messaging #OpenSource
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Aug 20, 2026
Retiring the State of the Bird #Messaging #OpenSource #Community
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Aug 2, 2026
Compromised Pidgin plugins in the Arch User Repository #Security #OpenSource #Software
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Jun 13, 2026
State of the Bird April 2026 #Messaging #OpenSource #Community
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Jun 2, 2026
2026-04-22 Outage Postmortem #Tech #Community #Infrastructure
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Apr 24, 2026
State of the Bird March 2026 #Chat #OpenSource #Community
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Apr 23, 2026
Old but New IRC Channel #IRC #Chat #Community
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Apr 20, 2026
Gaim 3 Announcement #Messaging #OpenSource #Software
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Mar 31, 2026
Pidgin 3 Development Phases #OpenSource #Chat #Development
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Mar 5, 2026
State of the Bird February 2026 #News #Community #Software
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Mar 2, 2026
New Zulip Server #Messaging #OpenSource #Community
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Feb 9, 2026
State of the Bird January 2026 #Chat #OpenSource #Community
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Feb 2, 2026
State of the Bird December 2025 #OpenSource #Chat #Community
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Jan 16, 2026
Xmpp.jp connection issues #XMPP #Support #OpenSource
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Jan 10, 2026
State of the Bird November 2025 #Tech #OpenSource #Community
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Dec 30, 2025
State Of the Bird October 2025 #Tech #OpenSource #Community
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Nov 1, 2025
State of the Bird September 2025 #Tech #OpenSource #Community
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Oct 20, 2025
State of the Bird August 2025 #News #Chat #OpenSource
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Sep 17, 2025
New Application Icon for Pidgin 3! #Pidgin #OpenSource #Chat
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Sep 9, 2025
State of the Bird July 2025 #Tech #OpenSource #Community
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Aug 3, 2025
State of the Bird June 2025 #OpenSource #Messaging #Community
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Jul 10, 2025
We're federated now! #Federation #OpenSource #Community
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Jun 25, 2025
State of the Bird May 2025 #News #Tech #OpenSource
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Jun 9, 2025
State of the Bird April 2025 #Chat #OpenSource #Community
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May 3, 2025
Release Checksums #Software #OpenSource #Development
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Apr 30, 2025
Pidgin Chat and other XMPP services having authentication issues #Tech #OpenSource #Chat
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Feb 18, 2025
Pidgin 3 on Flathub Beta #Software #OpenSource #Messaging
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Jan 2, 2025
Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement #Software #OpenSource #Messaging
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Nov 22, 2024