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by rw_grim 36 days ago
For the full reasoning see this page https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords which is now back online. It was accidentally broken in a recent server migration.

That said, purple3/pidgin3 (still in development) only supports for keyrings and doesn't try to do any password management on its own even though password managers fall into the "Store a password(s) behind a password" as detailed on the above page.