Pidgin was good; it did what needed to be done and wasn’t that bad at it.

The last service I was using it for was a self-hosted XMPP server for a small group of friends that were all refugees of other defunct services. We ended up finally moving to Slack or Discord (the group bifurcated along game-playing lines).

Now I’ve got to find something new yet again!

I tried pidgin and it didn’t land with me. I always went back to Trillian.