Comment by maqp

Like someone once said, "Pidgin is a flock of zero-days flying in formation". It had serious issues with leaking messages to other applications via dbus, I know this because I used that feature to stab in the earliest version of my work TFC.

You always forgot to enable OTR even if it was right there in front of you. You couldn't use it cross-device, and its 1536-bit DH got outdated without fixes. There's stuff like lurch that offer OMEMO but still, I really prefer that I don't have to think about key management anymore. With Signal things just work, and it's magical.