Yes, it appears to still occasionally crash. Worse, if it crashes, Empathy will not display any messages. I had a conversation where the other party was responding to me, but I wasn't receiving their messages at all. This is with Pidgin 2.4.3. If the work-around for AIM is to use libpurple, perhaps the integration needs to be more robust and gracefully recover from such issues.
Yes, it appears to still occasionally crash. Worse, if it crashes, Empathy will not display any messages. I had a conversation where the other party was responding to me, but I wasn't receiving their messages at all. This is with Pidgin 2.4.3. If the work-around for AIM is to use libpurple, perhaps the integration needs to be more robust and gracefully recover from such issues.