From: izzy Meyer <izder456@disroot.org>
Subject: Re: New: purple-discord - pidgin/libpurple plugin for Discord IM
To: Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:10:31 -0500

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:34:18 -0400
Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Attached a small port of purple-discord which allows communicating on
> the Discord platform without the (bloated) web UI or (proprietary)
> app. Works fine with a pre-existing Discord account. Note it adds all
> the channels and rooms to the Pidgin buddy list which can be a lot,
> and also auto opens a number of chat rooms. This can be managed in the
> account settings, described in the README on the HOMEPAGE.

It's nice to see a port for this. Thanks!

Tested on amd64 and arm64. Passes make port-lib-depends-check and
portcheck fine. Works OK under pidgin. I'm curious how bitlbee works
for this for those who host that bouncer. I don't use bitlbee, but I'd
expect it to work well w/ that as well.

-- 
iz (she/her)

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> there are too many uninteresting things
> that go unnoticed.

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