outage today / pidgin

[Geoffrey Lane]

I realize there was a maintenance / outage today, but for the last 4
hrs or so pidgin will not connect but the official client does... So
if I'm mistaken or resolves before this is viewed I'm sorry.. Is there
any new settings/server/etc.. during this or any other way to connect
via pidgin instead?
I saw pager server, so is this the same everywhere or are there diff ones?

Thanks
Geo

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