Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
I really miss Adium (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adium.im" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adium.im</a>) which was based on Pidgin&#x27;s libpurple. Adium had such a great user experience. It was built with native widgets and also incorporated chat themes that were implemented using WebKit&#x27;s rendering (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adiumxtras.com&#x2F;index.php?a=search&amp;cat_id=5&amp;sort=downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adiumxtras.com&#x2F;index.php?a=search&amp;cat_id=5&amp;sort=...</a>). It was fast and memory friendly given that it was a native app and the themes were just small templates offering a different rendering style (rather than the entire app being a huge JS&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;CSS React app).<p>There were add-ons for message styles, contact list styles, dock icons, sounds, and more.<p>It&#x27;s really sad that we&#x27;ve lost the ability to connect to so many of the services we use with third party clients. Instead, I now have FB Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, and Signal all running and taking up space in my dock.