The Funpidgin team welcomes you!
Funpidgin is a fork of the popular open source client Pidgin which allows instant messaging with over twenty different protocols.
What makes us different from the official client, is that we work for you. Unlike the Pidgin developers, we believe the user should have the final say in what goes into the program.
So far five new features have been added to Funpidgin upon requests from users, and all of them are optional. It is these options that make the use of Funpidgin enjoyable to a diverse range of people.
Feel free to try out the software and get involved! Tell us what you like and what you'd improve - we're happy to hear from you! If you can think of a feature you would like us to add, tell us what it is! You don't need to give a detailed reason - fulfilling our goal of improving the user experience is the only reason we need.
Funpidgin Interview on Fresh Ubuntu
Submitted by Justin on May 8, 2008 - 9:52pmToday I was interviewed on the Fresh Ubuntu podcast to sort of clear things up as to where development is heading, and why we forked to begin with. Anyway, first 11 or so minutes contain the interview. Please excuse my crappy phone voice, Skype wasn't working.
#funpidgin on FreeNode
Submitted by Justin on May 2, 2008 - 3:32pmCome join us in the #funpidgin channel on the FreeNode IRC network, we're happy to chat about development, ideas and bugs.
Wow... Hi, Slashdot!
Submitted by Justin on May 1, 2008 - 3:20amJust came across a story on Slashdot mentioning our little fork here and I for one would just like to welcome our new server-crashing overlords. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.
On to more serious business, I just want to address a couple questions I saw in the comments as I quickly browsed through them. (read further...)
Forums
Submitted by Justin on April 28, 2008 - 6:40pmWe're pleased to announce the opening of our very own forum here on the website. Here, you'll find forums for application support, suggestions and development, as well as how-to's and general discussion about Funpidgin. Forums are open to anonymous posters, so there's no need to register on the site (although we encourage you to do so if you wish!)
Should the Funpidgin preferences page include a reminder about the "Entry area manual sizing" plugin?
Submitted by Connor on April 26, 2008 - 10:58pm
