# Profanity
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Profanity is a console based XMPP client inspired by [Irssi](http://www.irssi.org/).

![alt tag](https://profanity-im.github.io/images/prof-2.png)

See the [User Guide](https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html) for information on installing and using Profanity.

## Project
This project is about freedom, privacy and choice. We want to enable people to chat with one another in a safe way. Thus supporting encryption (OTR, PGP, OMEMO, OX) and being decentralized, meaning everyone can run their own server. We believe [XMPP](https://xmpp.org/) is a great proven protocol with an excellent community serving this purpose well.


## Installation
Our [user guide](https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html) contains an [install](https://profanity-im.github.io/guide/latest/install.html) section and a section for [building](https://profanity-im.github.io/guide/latest/build.html) from source yourself.

## How to contribute
We tried to sum things up on our [helpout](https://profanity-im.github.io/helpout.html) page.
Additionally you can check out our [blog](https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/) where we have articles like:
[How to get a backtrace](https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/how-to-get-a-backtrace/) and [Contributing a Patch via GitHub](https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/contributing-a-patch-via-github/).
For more technical details check out our [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.

## Getting help
To get help, first read our [User Guide](https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html) then check out the [FAQ](https://profanity-im.github.io/faq.html).
If you are having a problem then first search the [issue tracker](https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues).
If you don't find anything there either come to our [MUC](xmpp:profanity@rooms.dismail.de?join) or create a new issue depending on what your problem is.

## Links

### Website
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Repo: https://git.jabber.space/devs/profanity

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### Plugins
Plugins repository: https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity-plugins