Should I get Trillian?

[Kev1n]

I have MSN Messenger with Plus and Discovery add-ons, and it works fine for me. Previously I had ICQ, but due to its slow messanging I ditched it. And now, as some of my friends have only Yahoo Messenger, I'm thinking of switching to Trillian Pro...but is it worth it? Does it have those extensions like Plus or Discovery?

[vip]

I love trilly 3 pro, I bought Trilly 2 pro, and didnt like it too much, so i started using miranda IM ... great client, just lacking in some features .... and you need 1200 plugins to simple things, tried GAIM, loved it for a while, then started using the trillian 3 alpha, and re-newed my license... trillian 3 is much faster! I love it!

[shihchiun]

i hate that you can't close the contacts window to have it in taskbar

Yeah you can, enable the WinGaim plugin.

i hate the tabbed browsing of convos.

Pretty sure you can turn it off.

[DAvenger of RadLight]

I used to use Trillian but not anymore (I don't need access to anything but MSN network). But Trillian truly is a nice software.

[forster]

It clearly stated when you payed that you were paying for only version 2 and it's updates.

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If you say so sailor, it's funny because every other piece of software, yes excluding windows, Ive gained access to newer versions. I see the decision made by the Trillian creators to charge for every version a really bad move. I could understand it if they'd cornered the market, found their own niche in the world, but they havent, there are lots of other multi-protocol chat clients out there, they should be treasuring their members and not charging them twice for using an updated piece of software.

You must not buy a lot of... um, anything. Cars, video-game consoles, operating systems, graphics software, ... computers. I mean probably you can buy food and clothing, but other than that you must not own many things at all.

That's just plain retarded. Those are items which have significant updates, as I said in my previous post, if there is enough reason to re-buy the same software, I will, but as-is, I think that anyone with a current pro membership should have been allowed to use the pro version of 3. Cars break down, operating systems can be no longer supported, but a chat client is basically the same from one version to the next. I dont see the point of paying twice.

[Wommers]

finally took the plunge when 3 came out. bought pro and aint goin back. very happy. hope to see better skin support in the future though.

[SerialStorm]

I use trillian Free Version for a number of reasons, recently updated to V3.

1: Chat and IM logging

2: Multiple IM programs all in one program

3: Reliitively easy to use and configure

4: NO AD's

[OPaul]

If you say so sailor, it's funny because every other piece of software, yes excluding windows, Ive gained access to newer versions.  I see the decision made by the Trillian creators to charge for every version a really bad move.  I could understand it if they'd cornered the market, found their own niche in the world, but they havent, there are lots of other multi-protocol chat clients out there, they should be treasuring their members and not charging them twice for using an updated piece of software.

That's just plain retarded.  Those are items which have significant updates, as I said in my previous post, if there is enough reason to re-buy the same software, I will, but as-is, I think that anyone with a current pro membership should have been allowed to use the pro version of 3.  Cars break down, operating systems can be no longer supported, but a chat client is basically the same from one version to the next.  I dont see the point of paying twice.

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Windows 98 wasn't exactly a huge improvement over 98 but you still had to pay for it. XP didn't have much more functionality then 2000, it was still just another OS, but you still had to pay for it. Why should Trillian be any different? Besides, it only costs $5.00.