pidgin/nest

Add the "Other Protocols" questions.

2019-08-08, John Bailey
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Parents 75139a02b1a7
Children 0dd51b827c53af66e1549e51
Add the "Other Protocols" questions.
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    +---
    +title: "Other Protocols"
    +date: 2019-08-07T22:06:02-04:00
    +replaces: []
    +---
    +
    +### Pidgin used to support MXit, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, and ICQ. What gives?
    +MXit and AIM no longer exist. MXit as a company no longer exists and their website is gone. AOL terminated AIM in December 2017.
    +
    +Yahoo! Messenger and ICQ changed protocols and Pidgin doesn't have the developer resources to support these protocols ourselves. See the [Plugins](/plugins/) page for community-maintained plugins for these and other services.
    +
    +### What happened to Facebook Chat support?
    +Facebook terminated their XMPP support in April 2014. Pidgin doesn't have the developer resources to support an alternative implenetation ourselves. See the [Plugins](/plugins/) page for community-maintained plugins for this and other services.
    +
    +### Why doesn't Pidgin support CyanChat, Microsoft LCS/Skype for Business, Skype, NateOn, NetSoul, etc.?
    +It is an incredible amount of work to implement and maintain support for a protocol. Pidgin's developers are volunteers who work on Pidgin in their spare time. As spare time is a limited resource, Pidgin's developers can maintain only a limited number of protocols.
    +
    +If you are willing and able to implement and maintain a plugin for a protocol that you use, we welcome and encourage you to do so! The beauty of Pidgin and libpurple is its plugin system, allowing anyone to enhance and extend Pidgin.
    +
    +You can find community-supported (third-party) plugins on our [Plugins page](/plugins/).