Probably outdated, even for a terminal application, but it's very lightweight and allows multiple accounts and protocol. And it behaves just like a GUI app - except that the windows are drawn in the terminal!
Very nice now that I'm hosting my own #XMPP server, and don't need OMEMO to chat locally anymore
@nicoco not really, it's still lacking some things indeed. In particular OMEMO. But it is indeed very nostalgic, and serves to remind us of a past where there were more messengers around, each of them their own universe
@jr well, if anything, #Profanity does not support multiple XMPP accounts, so that's that... but yeah, I agree, it has a much more familiar interface, and it has modern OMEMO support.
I know I probably should use something more modern, but Pidgin/Finch have a special place in my heart. It was the first messenger I used in Linux after I switched, and brings back lots of nostalgia
@debacle I beg to differ here. Even if we can go with the "taco bell paradigm" and use what the OS offers us to "work around" the problem, lots of other TUI chat programs already do multiple accounts, at no cost to performance. Plus, you lose a pane / window in a multiplexer doing so. Not very nice.
Weechat and irssi (the program that inspired #Profanity in first place) already do this. I was surprised to realize Profanity didn't have this!
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