Did Pidgin go belly up?

[DoYouKubuntu]

I used to use Pidgin a lot, and really liked it. I haven't wanted/needed an IM client lately, but did today, so I fired up Pidgin. I was met with a notice to delete my OldTwitterIM account and replace it with TwitterIM. I did. Then it fired up Chrome--don't know why/how it does this, since SeaMonkey is defined as my default browser--and asked me to log in to my Twitter account to grant it access, which I did. It provided me with a PIN to enter back in the client. I entered it. From that point on there's nothing but an endless loop of "authentication error" and trying to re-enable the account. I went to Pidgin's web site, pidgin.im, but that just results in errors.

Does anyone know if Pidgin is dead? I hope not, as I liked it a lot. FWIW, I have version 2.10.9.

[Snowhog]

FWIW, I have version 2.10.9.

And what version of Kubuntu are you running?

[DoYouKubuntu]

And what version of Kubuntu are you running?

On this laptop, 14.04.

[Feathers McGraw]

Well, you might want to move to another IM app before Pidgin hits version 3.14, that really will be the end!

[DoYouKubuntu]

Well, you might want to move to another IM app before Pidgin hits version 3.14, that really will be the end!

Okay, I even slept on it, and still have no idea why pi is involved here. What am I missing?!

ETA: Their site is accessible today. That's good! But their help section isn't of any help at all regarding my 'authentication error' endless loop.

[Feathers McGraw]

Well, if they make it to version 3.14 it will be "Pidgin pi"

[DoYouKubuntu]

Well, if they make it to version 3.14 it will be "Pidgin pi"

[Feathers McGraw]

Worth the wait?

[DoYouKubuntu]

Indeed!

[Feathers McGraw]

I was in a very silly mood yesterday...

[DoYouKubuntu]

I was in a very silly mood yesterday...

Silly is good.

My cousin and I were recently reminiscing over something that happened some 25-ish years ago, when I was living out-of-state. My daughter and I were here visiting, and my cousin had come over to see us. My cousin and I have always been LIKE THIS--much closer than I am to my actual sister. And we've had a lifelong thing about giggling whenever we're together. So we were in the bedroom I was using and we were giggling about something--I mean laughing up a storm, tears rolling down our faces, the whole works--and my mom comes in and says, incredulously, "STOP GIGGLING! What do you want your daughter to think?!!" Which made us giggle even more.

[sithlord48]

have you tried kde's integrated telepathy ?

[DoYouKubuntu]

have you tried kde's integrated telepathy ?

No...but I'd like to!

[sithlord48]

since you already have it ... go to system settings -> Instant messaging and VIOP . there you can add accounts. in your system tray you will see a (on mine) grey circle this is the icon for the presence widget you can right click on that to change your status to online (it will turn green ) and also access your contact list.