Comments on: AIM now sucks more.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Or you could use Trillian with SecureIM enabled, no?

By: GreyDuck

GreyDuck — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Or use Direct Connection when possible, yes. Mind you, I can’t stand Trillian. I was thrilled when Gaim became stable enough for every-day use, ’cause then I could drop that clunky, gawdy, crash-prone thing. *shrug* YMMV, as always.

Of course, the other option is just not to use AIM for chat and stick to Yahoo/Jabber/etc.

By: ayagi

ayagi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Create something new and exciting. Then sit back and wait for AOL to sue you for your own new ideas

Trillian’s been good to me. Been a solid user since the 0.6x days. It’s the only software package I’ve paid money to. ^_^

By: Lilith

Lilith — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll stick with Yahoo IM. As long as I turn all the extras off (no, I *don’t* want to be notified of stocks, news, or when I get new Yahoo email!), I like it lots. I really like the fact that I can sign on invisible & then reveal myself only to select people on my list. I’m sneaky that way. *grin*

By: Kylanath

Kylanath — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hee hee… you need to reveal yourself to me dear lady, it squcks me out trying to randomly ping invisible people not knowing if they’re really there or not.

By: GreyDuck

GreyDuck — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a long time since I played with the “invisible” mode… usually, I just set “don’t allow IMs from people not on my list,” and stay visible. If someone IMs me while I’m busy, I say “Sorry, can’t chat, I’m busy.” And if I’m away, well, that’s usually pretty obvious. Maybe I’m just weird, though. *grin*