Trillian Astra

[Shane Pitman]

It truly does look incredible and as someone who relies heavily on instant messaging, I can't wait to get a closer look at it.

[Boo Berry]

All they need to do is support the Yahoo/Windows Live interop and add support for winks/audibles, dynamic display pictures/yahoo avatars, ect. And it all will be good. ;)

[Evilpig]

Looks awesome.

[Elessar]

it's a fancy skin on top of plugins and fixes that should have been in years ago. not impressed for the amount of time it took to release an ALPHA.

and for the record, my credentials are in order. i've been a trillian user since 0.6 and as i've said before, developed one of the most popular plugins around for it.

What plugin would that be?

*Edit: My Mail, not bad even though gmail wouldn't work for me.

Edited November 21, 2006 by Elessar

[webeagle12]

wow that looks hot :D

[noroom]

I might check it out. Depends on how good the free version is. Until then, miranda is doing the job.

[scumdogmillionaire]

What plugin would that be?

*Edit: My Mail, not bad even though gmail wouldn't work for me.

is pop3 enabled on your gmail account? do you have the ssl dll's in the trillian dir? after that everything should be cool, unless you have funky characters in your password or something.

[:: Lyon ::]

Bah

I thought they've released a beta version for us to play around with :{

It's about time they release something don't they :pinch:

[Quillz]

I'm glad to see that Trillian Astra is alive and well. If the final product is good enough, I might finally pay the $25 and use the Pro version.

[Nightwind Hawk]

Just looked at the new preview on their website - WOW, looks awesome! :)

When's the scheduled release?

[Rock-Lee]

can't wait for public realease

[ZEROarmy]

Awesome. I can't wait to test this. I wanted to keep using Trillian 3.1 but it kept falling behind in features.

[phantasmorph]

Subscribed once, years went by, ditched it in favor of Miranda. They'd have to come out with something incredibly impressive and innovative for me to dump Miranda. I'm not holding my breath.

[:: Lyon ::]

How about a nice UI? lol

[CrimsonKnight13]

Here's a better summary then the changelog. I hope this helps satiate the curiousity of the hopeful & loyal.

This new version, entitled Astra, is aiming to pack a pig punch. Not only does it add support for even more IM clients, but also a great adds a great number of features that many users requested. Bigblueball put together a nice list of the main changes:

Performance

Loads skins up to 100% faster than Trillian 3.1

Uses 5 MB less memory

Faster redraw times (important if you have lots of contacts)

Interoperability

A dedicated Google Talk plug-in, separating it from the Jabber plug-in for improved Google Talk support

MySpace IM connectivity -- by popular request

Enhanced file transfers, including easier multiple file transfers

More complete status message compatibility

New Astra Features

'Portable' contact list. Your contacts are downloaded from the server, meaning you can run Trillian Astra from any computer and your contact list will always be complete and up-to-date

One account, multiple networks. Hand-out a unified Trillian Astra account and people can contact you on any of the networks you use

Web

Like MeeboMe, Trillian Astra provides a web client for 'no-download' access to IM.

Like Meetro, Trillian Astra allows you to share your geo-location information -- fun for mobile users looking to find friends nearby.

Online status indicator. Share your status with anyone on your blog, at MySpace or in a forum signature, regardless of which IM network(s) you use.

Widgets - share your Flickr photostream, or your current playing song, or get the weather for your contacts.

Message Windows

Improved image sharing

"Buzz" compatibility (for those of you who live that feature on WLM and Yahoo! Messenger).

Handwriting support for Tablet PCs

Local time zone info for your contacts

Contact List

New ways of viewing your contacts

Dynamic list height -- your contact list can be configured to automatically expand to show all visible contacts

Right now the program isn't available publicly, but for the first time ever, I'm actually excited over an new IM release. We'll keep you posted on more news regarding Trillian Astra, as they arrive.

Source: Cerulean Studios Previews Trillian Astra (@Forevergeek.com by Griffith)

[SMELTN]

so why do people use Miranda over Trillian?

[JustGeorge]

Man, how disappointing :( Was hoping it was FINALLY out for public testing. ^%&^&%^&^&^&**((**

[The Regal Wind]

That does look pretty darn good, I say. It's like someone took a glass painting of your face, smashed it, then reassembled it from all the tiny shards in a better way.

When this comes out, I think I'll be downloading it post haste.

[0sit0]

nice, it looks pretty cool :)

[Evilpig]

This looks pretty cool.

[Darrian]

I still use Trillian, I love it, and I've tried other messaging clients, but I just can't tolerate them. Still, I have the same gripes about Trillian that everybody else does, I just can't stand to use anything else. Hopefully Astra will relieve the pain. It's taken way too long to get to this point, hopefully we won't have to wait too much longer.

[#Michael]

I swear this has been alpha testing longer than Longhorn. It's an IM client, when is there going to be a public beta cycle.

[DomZ]

This does look pretty good, look forward (and hope) to it being released

[AdverseDeviant]

so why do people use Miranda over Trillian?

why do people use mac over pc? the world may never know...

[:: Lyon ::]

I use Miranda over Trillian just because:

I hate the message in Trillian: "One or more messages may have been undeliverable"

What the? which one? or which ONES?

in Miranda, it at least said it failed to send the message