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Hobot wrote:I love Miranda! It runs very smoothly on my unstable hunk of junk and it imported all my ICQ history which was one of my biggest concerns about switching IM programs.

It's thanks to Vertigo and this forum that I discovered it.

http://miranda-im.org/

I've been using Miranda for nearly two years now and I haven't looked back. It also supports nearly every IM protocol out there. The only two it doesn't support is Napster, and that one thats only popular in Poland. It comes with support for AIM, MSN, and Yahoo by default, but there are plugins for the rest. Including IRC and secure IM.

Trillian is adequate for all my needs. For one, it's not bloatware (unlike ICQ) and it's got the essentials down in a slimmed package. For another, the sounds aren't as fuck-off annoying as ICQ's.

Oh yeah, the bloatware part and the sound part, those are probably the reasons I use it... forgot how bloated ICQ had become.

Eleas wrote:Trillian is adequate for all my needs. For one, it's not bloatware (unlike ICQ) and it's got the essentials down in a slimmed package. For another, the sounds aren't as fuck-off annoying as ICQ's.

Same for Miranda-ICQ.....and it doesn't pester you to upgrade to a pro version. Plus, it has an insanely small memory footprint.

I use Trillian so I don't have to keep switching back & forth between all the different messaging programs that my friends use. It's also nice & simple once I got past the setup stage and it works pretty good. I like it.

Fortunately I saved the skin before I upgraded, because 1) they removed the messenger icons and replaced with colored balls that say nothing (probably because of copyrights, because the Pro version is not free) and 2) they replaced the Cordillera skin with some lame-ass Whistler one in the Pro version.

Anyway, thanks for the input, and I think I'm staying with Trillian I hope they update it before MSN switches over.