Don’t be sorry! I’ll be waiting with bated (not baited) breath. If you need a
tester, I’m your guy!
From: Eion Robb
Sent: Tuesday, July 6, 2021 4:37 PM
To: Phil Smith III
Cc: Pidgin Support List
Subject: Re: Strange behavior since Hangouts went to Chat
Hmm. That's really strange.
Hmm. That's really strange. There's been some issues related to the 429
errors that can make it reconnect and download history again, but it
normally has the right time on it, not the current time.
To completely avoid the question, I'm working on a new plugin for Google
Chat at
I'm using the Hangouts plugin. Since it reverted to Chat, the only change
I've seen is that when I first start a session after firing up Pidgin, the
first IM I sent winds up at the *top* of the history, and all the history
has the current timestamp.
So if the history was:
(11:34:21 AM) Phil
