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Back in the day I had to use a few different chat programs (AIM/ICQ/MSN), then came along Trillian, and I could just run the one program. I've since switched to
by ChoGGi 9y ago
Back in the day I had to use a few different chat programs (AIM/ICQ/MSN), then came along Trillian, and I could just run the one program. I've since switched to Pidgin (or whatever they called themselves before the rename), it was quite nice not having to bother with all those separate programs.
Now we have Discord/Slack/Whatsapp/A myriad of voice chat programs and I'm back where I started.
Edit: For those curious, AIM for Counter-Strike, ICQ for random internets, and MSN was pretty big here in Canada.
- KGIII 9y agoGaim, I believe it was AOL that made them change their name to Pidgin. Pidgin lives on and AIM is fading into history.
- Macha 9y agoThe networks that pidgin supports are slowly dying off though.
- chipx86 9y agoThey tried for many years to get us to change the name, but it never came down to any real legal battles of any sort. The name change occurred after I left the project, but I think it was a conscious choice on the project's end to finally change the name, give it a new identity. (Someone from Pidgin correct me if I'm wrong -- I was pretty out of the loop during that time period.)
- manveru 9y agoYou can kinda use http://meetfranz.com/ http://meetfranz.com/ for that... unfortunately it's mostly wrappers around web clients, not a real client that unifies your contacts and such.
- amedvednikov 9y agoThere's a native client for all of the above: https://eul.im https://eul.im
- rconti 9y agoEven just hearing the name Trillian makes me angry all over again. It had the worst UX on the planet. Its refusal to abide by any coherent set of OS/Window management standards made it miserable to use.