[Hamara-devel] Hamara Mate Meta

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting abhijith (2016-09-09 17:20:02)
> Which chat client should we use on hamara mate - Pidgin, Empathy or 
> Gajim?
> 
> 
> Praveen had once recommended Gajim. So I have put it for now.

Gajim supports only Jabber, I believe, whereas both of the other 
contenders are multi-protocol.

Also, when I stress tested all three a few¹ years ago, Neither Gajim nor 
Empathy - only Pidgin - could handle my Jabber roster of 1000+ friends.

So unless for some specific² needs, I recommend Pidgin.


 - Jonas


¹ As I recon it must've been 2-3 years ago: It was before Facebook 
blocked public access to their ejabberd servers but after my first 
journey to India and Indonesia in 2011 where I got ~1000 "friends".

² One reason might be security concerns - Pidgin is famous for being 
sloppily coded, and even though it does have an off-the-record plugin 
some security folks recommend against using that - but they then 
recommend none the other Jabber clients but instead some less federated 
chat system than both Jabber and irc.  So it all depends on the aim.

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