18 Responses

1. Alex

   May 24th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

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   Pidgin used to be GAIM, before it was bought out by AOL. I agree, it’s pretty kick-ass.

2. admin

   May 24th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

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   ya. There are a few other clients like this one out there.
   Namely Trillion.

   But Trillion only supports a few services, and QQ isn’t one of them.

   I believe there are Chinese versions of this kind of software.
   But I’ve yet to track any down.

3. admin

   May 25th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

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   http://im.qq.com/tm/download.shtml

   One of my friends just sent me this, which looks interesting.

4. hellno

   May 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

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   yeah Tecent Messeger is recommended if u find a complete version of QQ too heavy,also u can try Coral QQ which is less resource costing.both of them can be connected to the QQ network.btw,check this out,it may look familiar

   http://www-c2.meebo.com.cn/index.html

5. admin

   May 28th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

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   That looks interesting. I’ll have to give that a try. After speaking with old friends on qq a few days ago when I originally posted, the QQ part of pidgin doesn’t seem to be able to sign in.

   Why is it that all my tips seeming to fail like two days after I post them?

   It’s like I’m cursing them.

6. StXh

   June 8th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

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   Yes, Tencent has banned other client to login their server these days. But I think a new QQ plugin for Pidgin will login again soon.

7. Jonah

   June 29th, 2007 at 11:19 am

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   Hmm, a friend of mine uses Pidgin and can’t log into QQ, perhaps this ban is the reasons. For some reason, I can still log in thru Miranda.

8. Ankit

   July 13th, 2007 at 1:22 am

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   It wasn’t actually bought out. Gaim (not GAIM) was sued by AOL for using the trademarked AIM in their name, so they needed to change it. But AOL never paid for anything.

9. refluxamine

   September 6th, 2007 at 11:57 am

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   I think pidgin is pretty sweet.
   Better than many other IM programs.

10. tom arnall

    September 26th, 2007 at 4:41 am

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    does anyone know if pidgin for etch is still being rejected by the qq server? also, has anyone had sucess running qq.exe under wine/linux?

11. 常安

    October 4th, 2007 at 10:00 am

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    eva is a KDE client that uses qq

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/evaq/

    The qq login error in Pigdin should be patched with the release of version 2.2.2

    http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/783#comment:32

    Looking at the last message from one of the devs it looks like they might never fix it.

12. ryan

    October 20th, 2007 at 4:52 am

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    i followed the instruction at the top of the page, but i am still getting jibberish where there should be chinese on my pidgin messenger. i am using vista. does that change anything? anybody with some ideas?

13. Thijs

    March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

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    If QQ is a bit resource hungry, I suggest you try Tencent Messenger:
    http://im.qq.com/tm/

    It’s lightweight fast and very pleasent to work with.

14. zahadum

    March 25th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

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    this QQ plugin (in pidgin) is just a windows backport of the slick mac osx multi-IM (also based on gaim) called ADIUM.

    do yourself a favour - get a mac - save your time & your money being wsted on the dead end that is windows!

15. Rick

    April 16th, 2008 at 3:12 am

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    @zahadum I already did. Adium is sweet, and so is MacOS!

16. Rosenthal

    April 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm

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    I am getting Null instead of text in qq-Pidgin

17. R.S. BROWN

    October 6th, 2008 at 12:25 am

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    SAME HERE.

    USING PIDGIN 2.5.1 UNDER WINDOWS XP.

    I CAN LOGIN TO QQ JUST FINE.

    BUT EVERYTHING I SEND/RECEIVE SHOWS UP AS (NULL).

18. Bill HK

    October 23rd, 2008 at 1:03 am

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    Pidgin is cool. And light weight. Worked on my AMD dual core 64 bit with 32-bit windows xp