{"id":410,"date":"2007-12-09T22:41:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T02:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/archives\/410"},"modified":"2011-02-20T21:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:55:56","slug":"abandoning-pidgin-for-back-to-trillian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/12\/09\/abandoning-pidgin-for-back-to-trillian\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoning Pidgin for (Back to) Trillian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in mid August I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=272\">switched<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\">Pidgin<\/a> as my IM client. I even found plugins like <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.guifications.org\/\">Guifications<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pidgin-encrypt.sf.net\/\">Encryption<\/a> to add back functionality. Starting now, I am going back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceruleanstudios.com\/\">Trillian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The painful behavior I cannot stand is Pidgin removing my accounts without any visual notice. What is the use of an IM client that doesnt&#8217; connect to the IM service? In every instance, accounts were disabled. Normally I see a visual indicator like I normally do when an account is having issues connecting. For some reason I didn&#8217;t get anything.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I am back to Trillian. I&#8217;ll give Gaim\/Pidgin\/NextName another try the next time I start having major problems with Trillian. Web-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meebo.com\/\">Meebo<\/a> requires remembering to login to a web site consistently. Maybe I should try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miranda-im.org\/\">Miranda<\/a> again?<\/p>\n<p><strong>tag:<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/instant%20messaging\" rel=\"tag\">instant messaging<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Pidgin\" rel=\"tag\">Pidgin<\/a>,  Trillian,  Miranda IM,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Meebo\" rel=\"tag\">Meebo<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/open%20source\" rel=\"tag\">open source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in mid August I switched to Pidgin as my IM client. I even found plugins like Guifications and Encryption to add back functionality. Starting now, I am going back to Trillian. The painful behavior I cannot stand is Pidgin removing my accounts without any visual notice. What is the use of an IM client [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[289,3053,655,97,64,277,171,170,283,217],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-behavior","tag-wordpress","tag-iran","tag-issues","tag-member","tag-name","tag-open-source","tag-software","tag-user-interface","tag-web-site"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-6C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}