{"id":61,"date":"2008-04-18T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-18T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T03:14:07","slug":"alternatives_part_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/2008\/04\/18\/alternatives_part_ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may already know that I have some complaints about pidgin:<br \/>\n&#8211; its developers use a brain damaged dvcs (yes monotone sucks, yet another application written in C++ that sucks after cmake)<br \/>\n&#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.pidgin.im\/ticket\/4986\">ability<\/a> to listen to the user feedback is severely reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Since we are talking about alternatives looks like somebody tried to make things a little nicer and forked the code so far and made something <a href=\"http:\/\/funpidgin.sourceforge.net\">fun<\/a> out of that.<\/p>\n<p>Seems promising, I hope it works well enough to be put on Gentoo soon if the pidgin devs don&#8217;t come to their senses =P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may already know that I have some complaints about pidgin: &#8211; its developers use a brain damaged dvcs (yes monotone sucks, yet another application written in C++ that sucks after cmake) &#8211; The ability to listen to the user feedback is severely reduced. Since we are talking about alternatives looks like somebody tried to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/2008\/04\/18\/alternatives_part_ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternatives, part II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGWH-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}