what's your FAVORITE instant messenger ? [Archive]

Hanzo

02-12-2004, 06:35 AM

MSN messenger all the way. That's what my friends use, so there's no point in using ICQ, AIM, Trillian (what a crap) or Yahoo (i just hate it because is from Yahoo) I've tried all of those and MSN is better IMO.

IRC is a different story... i use it to download local music that I would never be able to get from filesharing networks.

Heigar

02-12-2004, 06:41 AM

Msn messenger (now without the plus).the rest i've tried and never really cared for.

Zayoos

02-12-2004, 07:59 AM

Hahaha :) Todd, You placed Gadu-Gadu here? Thanks man :) but I will be only person in this forum who voted on it :) G-G is used only by people from Poland.
I must try msn messenger some day....

Tokelil

02-12-2004, 09:13 AM

Im using Miranda IM. Its an open source project that run all the above protocols. Favorite protocol is ICQ though, since thats what most of my friends use, and have been using for 5+ years.

Todd The Kiwi

02-12-2004, 09:26 AM

you should've voted for icq then.
i left miranda and trillian off the list because they're multi protocol.

Tokelil

02-12-2004, 09:33 AM

I never use ICQ. (Not even installed) Only Miranda IM. (With ICQ, MSN and Jabber protocols)

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

02-12-2004, 11:35 AM

I selected msn messenger and other, because i use trillian now but with the msn messenger protocol. Messenger has been causing too many problems on my system. Im cool with trillian, with the msn messenger skin of course :) ;)

(this way i support microsoft a little less too :D)

I-mage

02-12-2004, 01:18 PM

Miranda for me.

acozz

02-12-2004, 01:37 PM

I use AIM because so does everyone else in the country.

drewkeller

02-12-2004, 01:58 PM

Miranda
you didn't say you only wanted votes for protocols althought that's all that's listed
there are a lot of IMs that you didn't list
seems like these polls are often missing a lot of options

ace2701

02-12-2004, 02:03 PM

The only reason I use AOL is that all my relatives and friends have it, and it makes it easier to IM them.

Todd The Kiwi

02-12-2004, 06:15 PM

Miranda
you didn't say you only wanted votes for protocols althought that's all that's listed
there are a lot of IMs that you didn't list
seems like these polls are often missing a lot of options

i included the important ones that get used the most as far as i'm aware ,
for some reason i opted not to put miranda or trillian in there
(incidentially i use both of these too)
i reckon most of the bases are covered...
the "other" option would be for IM's that i don't know about that someone else uses.

Tokelil

02-12-2004, 06:42 PM

Maybe the poll should have been: "what IM protocol is your FAVORITE ? " to avoid confusion.

DeltaGuy

02-12-2004, 07:55 PM

I use GAIM (http://gaim.sf.net). It's a very popular Open Source Mulit-Protocol Instant Messenger that was originally designed for Linux, but was later ported to Windows. I find it quite nice, it runs on GTK2+, and has themes. The protocols I use on it include MSN, ICQ, and IRC...

rorythedog

02-13-2004, 09:33 AM

Hi folks. I've never used an IM before, but I'm intrigued so I've DL'ed & Installed Miranda. We'll see how it goes.

Stand by for shitloads of questions. :rolleyes:

Todd The Kiwi

02-13-2004, 09:43 AM

Maybe the poll should have been: "what IM protocol is your FAVORITE ? " to avoid confusion.
maybe it should've. oh well...

duckie

02-13-2004, 10:08 AM

Eh, well I voted for "other" before reading the rest of the thread, but I use Miranda IM, and I'm only on ICQ, and sometimes IRC.

Cabinessence

02-13-2004, 11:49 AM

Miranda IM owns.

Young Twig

02-14-2004, 03:03 AM

I use AIM because so does everyone else in the country.
yup.

I have MSN, but I don't use it much at all.

Young Twig

02-14-2004, 03:04 AM

Jencatd

02-14-2004, 10:17 AM

I have Trillian, but I use MSN more, since most of the people I talk to are on MSN.

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

02-14-2004, 11:13 AM

I use amsn in linux (hey, a penguin emoticon would be nice ;))

ahac

02-17-2004, 09:33 AM

I use Miranda od XP and Kopete on Linux.

The best protocol IMHO is Jabber (http://www.jabber.org). On MSN you can't even leave messages when the user is offline. How lame is that?
Jabber is opensource. Any kilent can support it because the specification is freely availible. And you can even connect to it from more than 1 computer. If you are connected to MSN or ICQ on one computer and try to connect on another you will just get disconnected on the first one. Not with Jabber.

Sure.. there are a lot of users on MSN and also on ICQ. I have noticed that most of the people I work with on different webpages use ICQ while MSN is used mostly by kids that have never heard of anything else.

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

09-01-2007, 09:42 AM

I'm currently diggin aMSN again. Heaps of improvements and the GUI looks great. My favourite plugin is the music plugin. It not only shows what you are listening to but also grabs album art for your avatar, matching with what you are currently listening to. I presume it looks for images in the music folder.

idefiXX

09-01-2007, 12:50 PM

My favourite protocol would be ICQ, because most of my friends use it. I have some contacts on MSN, too, thats why I use (and strongly advise anybody else to use) Trillian.
I tried Gaim and Miranda didn't like them.

carbonize

09-01-2007, 08:38 PM

I use five protocols. Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AIM and Gtalk. Yahoo is because I used to chat on Yahoo a lot so have a lot of friends there. ICQ was the first thing I got back when I started on PC's back in 99. AIM is from when I used AOL as my ISP years ago. MSN because my family uses it and Gtalk just because I have Gmail.

I used to use Trillian because of its small footprint but now I use Pidgin as it seems to handle the protocols better. I do miss my anti spam plugin though :|

Solon

09-02-2007, 02:00 PM

i use the msn protocol on the pidgin im client. It's pretty decent, minimalistic which I like, but I wish it had better file transfer support and also webcam capabilities.

idefiXX

09-02-2007, 03:52 PM

I must say, Pidgin has very much improved, when I tried the program the last time it was still Gaim and I didn't like it. Now I consider using it instead of Trillian...

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

09-02-2007, 11:27 PM

I must say, Pidgin has very much improved, when I tried the program the last time it was still Gaim and I didn't like it. Now I consider using it instead of Trillian...

...Pidgin still uses the old MSNP9. However, work is done to update (http://developer.pidgin.im/roadmap) it with the latest MSNP14 connection. 9 active tickets left to solve.

Tokelil

09-02-2007, 11:40 PM

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

09-03-2007, 01:43 AM

On a related note. Miranda is very close to a 0.7 release. A huge improvement on the MSN and Jabber side of the program as well as making most of the program unicode aware.

It's still option hell though.

It is very customisable so you need to spend some time with it. It would be my #1 choice in windows.

Solon

09-03-2007, 12:54 PM

It is very customisable so you need to spend some time with it. It would be my #1 choice in windows.

Yeah I used Miranda when I ran windows exclusively, it was part of the reason I chose gaim (now pidgin) for Linux because I wanted something that was almost as customisable and fairly minimal like Miranda could be... if Miranda ran on linux (or better through wine) I'd probably go back to that.

Tokelil

09-03-2007, 01:08 PM

if Miranda ran on linux (or better through wine) I'd probably go back to that.It already does:
http://forums.miranda-im.org/showthread.php?t=4624&highlight=wine

The user TioDuke is the most active linux user, but I think he has been busy the last few months. You need to compile from source your self though AFAIK.

Solon

09-03-2007, 02:59 PM

It already does:
http://forums.miranda-im.org/showthread.php?t=4624&highlight=wine

Awesome! I'll give it a try later, thanks.

Roj

09-18-2007, 02:56 PM

Pidgin.

No Micro$oft blooat and adware (or anyone else's for that matter).

Small, fast, open source, very functional doing what IM is supposed to do: Instant Messaging.

Willow of Oz

09-18-2007, 04:33 PM

Pidgin.

No Micro$oft blooat and adware (or anyone else's for that matter).

Small, fast, open source, very functional doing what IM is supposed to do: Instant Messaging.

Roj, could you elaborate on what happened in recent times with Pidgin / Gaim?
Last I heard you went from Gaim is Good, to the pre 2.0 sux ... what happened in the 2.0 to 2.1 era that brought you back to the fold?

For reference, I dribbled off gaim for no real reason to google talk to miranda, which is growing on me.
edit: oh, hey, nice, the latest RC of miranda fixed the multimonitor stickiness bug.

Roj

09-18-2007, 04:58 PM

Roj, could you elaborate on what happened in recent times with Pidgin / Gaim?
Last I heard you went from Gaim is Good, to the pre 2.0 sux ... what happened in the 2.0 to 2.1 era that brought you back to the fold?

The teram finally got off its collective ass and turned out a final 2.0 release. it was pretty decent and I switched to it. They followed it up with subsequent releases that got better and better. i've never looked back.

They are currently having some problems with Pidgin using HTTP connectivity through firewalls because Microsoft Change Something, I have no doubt that this will be resolved.

For reference, I dribbled off gaim for no real reason to google talk to miranda, which is growing on me.
edit: oh, hey, nice, the latest RC of miranda fixed the multimonitor stickiness bug.

Trid Miranda, hated the interfacd and configurability weirdness. Pidgin as more intuitive for me.

Willow of Oz

09-19-2007, 04:26 AM

Trid Miranda, hated the interfacd and configurability weirdness. Pidgin as more intuitive for me.

Yeah, I kinda know what you mean.
The last time I tried gaim/pidgin myself was with the RCs, so I'll have to give the new Pidgin a shakedown myself someday.

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

09-19-2007, 08:17 AM

Yeah, I kinda know what you mean.
The last time I tried gaim/pidgin myself was with the RCs, so I'll have to give the new Pidgin a shakedown myself someday.

Pidgin is cool but is doesnt support the new msn protocol language MSNP14 something something yet. That includes no status message. But im speaking of the linux version. Let me know if the windows version is any different. Once they get this fixed I'll go back from amsn since 1 appl. to do multiple things is kinda my fancy.

Willow of Oz

09-23-2007, 10:25 AM

Yeah, I kinda know what you mean.
The last time I tried gaim/pidgin myself was with the RCs, so I'll have to give the new Pidgin a shakedown myself someday.

2.2.0 testing in progress...
So far, seems easy enough to start up, get accounts going.
Looks fine. No one else online though, so nothing to report on its general messaging facilities.
And I've only set up one protocol so far...

Roj

09-29-2007, 08:25 PM

2.2.0 testing in progress...
So far, seems easy enough to start up, get accounts going.
Looks fine. No one else online though, so nothing to report on its general messaging facilities.
And I've only set up one protocol so far...
Running Pidgin 2.2.0 Final. Kicks ass against all comers especially that adware-infested retroactive abortion from M$.

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

09-30-2007, 02:07 AM

Running Pidgin 2.2.0 Final. Kicks ass against all comers especially that adware-infested retroactive abortion from M$.

Update to 2.2.1 (http://pidgin.im/download/)

Roj

09-30-2007, 02:48 AM

Update to 2.2.1 (http://pidgin.im/download/)
10-Q!

Now comes the fight tow download...

Todd The Kiwi

09-30-2007, 07:49 AM

hey i just found out last night that old contacts can be deleted form hotmail/msn sweet

Tokelil

10-02-2007, 08:28 AM

Ferahgo

10-02-2007, 11:36 AM

Miranda 0.7 has finally been released. Lots of improvements compared to 6.8. (Though I don't think there is a release note yet, since there hasn't been a release announcement yet)
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=94142&package_id=100076&release_id=543580

There is: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=543580&group_id=94142
It's normally shown when you click on the icon between the release name and the date.

Willow of Oz

10-02-2007, 12:49 PM

Running Pidgin 2.2.0 Final. Kicks ass against all comers especially that adware-infested retroactive abortion from M$.

Roj, you might know this - I looked everywhere and didn't see an option to turn off autofocus on new conversation.
Without this I'm dumping it ...

Tokelil

10-02-2007, 01:07 PM

There is: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=543580&group_id=94142
It's normally shown when you click on the icon between the release name and the date.Thanks didn't notice.

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

10-02-2007, 02:27 PM

Roj, you might know this - I looked everywhere and didn't see an option to turn off autofocus on new conversation.
Without this I'm dumping it ...

I minimize the conversation window instead of closing it as a work around.

RaiseHell

10-02-2007, 02:49 PM

Client: Trillian Pro 3
Protocols: ICQ & MSN

When Trillian Astra is being released I'll compare it with Miranda and Pidgin and see which one I like the most.

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

11-27-2007, 01:02 AM

A sneak preview of MSN live messenger 9 was released but quickly removed. Ars Technica managed to grab the info (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071126-microsoft-aiming-to-give-windows-live-messenger-a-leg-up-with-new-features.html) from the google cache. Not many surprises really as it's got even more features than life itself.

Protocol

11-27-2007, 01:36 AM

Not many surprises really as it's got even more features than life itself.
I couldn't agree more with the final statement of the article. :rolleyes:

Tech blogger and business owner Joel Spolsky has stated that "nothing we have ever done at Fog Creek has increased our revenue more than releasing a new version with more features" and his experiences can probably be mirrored at hundreds of other software companies. The people truly responsible for bloatware, it turns out, are us.

Willow of Oz

11-27-2007, 08:57 AM

Hey, good old Spolsky!
Note to self - get back to reading his book.

Has anyone tried that Spark IM?

Tokelil

11-27-2007, 09:05 AM

"Multiple Points of Presence Support" (which Jabber already support btw.) is a nice feature IMO. (Esp. now that quite a few are running MSN on their mobile phones etc.)

The rest I don't care for. Besides it will probably take a long time before Miranda supports the new features anyway. (With the current MSN protocol developer it will probably be never, besides the above feature :) )

Willow of Oz

11-27-2007, 09:42 AM

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit

11-27-2007, 09:55 AM

"Multiple Points of Presence Support"

It therefore works with gmail too. I often wonder where the hell Willow's next ;)

Tokelil

11-27-2007, 10:34 AM

Miranda 0.8 test seems to be getting some MSN attention.Yes a "complete" rewrite for MSN 8 protocol. :) But I guess it isn't a day too soon to start that work, since MS has clear intentions of cutting support for the old one. I'm don't think they will wait for Miranda to finish their support either... (Apparently offline messages doesn't work for all people any more, but it still works for me at least.)

I'm still on the old MIM 7.3 though. I'll wait a bit before trying out the new MSN protocol. It still has quite a few problems it seems.

Tokelil

11-27-2007, 10:36 AM

It therefore works with gmail too. I often wonder where the hell Willow's next ;)Yes I know. MSN is a bit more interesting though IMO, since I don't know a single person using GTalk. :)

acushla

11-27-2007, 07:05 PM

The telephone.

lillitnn92

11-27-2007, 07:48 PM

Trillian at home, Miranda on USB at work. i like the mulit protocol messengers because i have friends all over the IM protocol world. it's just better to have access in one program than having seperate installs for all the different messengers.