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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by ehsankia on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:30AM (#25873077)
I still have my .purple backup. It even had a Steam plugin I recall which was great since Steam itself didn't have chat logs.
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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by wruza on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:57AM (#25873390)
If anyone is curious why it is called .purple, here you go: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple
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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by thesuitonym on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:13PM (#25876430)
That doesn't really answer why it's called purple. As I recall, there used to be something about it being named for the PRogram PLugins (prpl) that (then) Gaim used.
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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by carlhjerpe on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:27PM (#25878207)
I didn't get that info from there
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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by meow112012 on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:06PM (#25874943)
When they renamed the app, I pruned my chat logs by some mistake renaming the logging folders. I lost my most important logs then :(
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