Trillian Astra

[xxdesmus]

Wow, ok this one pic does look pretty good, but that is perfectly possible using the current Trillian (except for the dynamically expanding height).

There is no chance of them getting my money considering they flat out ignored paying customer's requests/comments/cries of despiration for a Native UI option. Oh, and take note: that is not glass or anything fancy like that, that is just making the entire application 70% transparent ... big F-ing deal. We can do that with any number of applications in Windows XP already.

Talk about a lack of innovation.

Here is the pic for those curious.

[Xab]

They need to release something already, they take so ridiculously long it isnt funny.

[MaJoR]

Awesome! I used to use trillian, but the glitches got on my nerves enough for me to give up on it to try gaim and miranda. Miranda is ok, but I do still prefer Trillian.

I like the look of it, but it is bloated. I hope they sleeken it out a bit.

[SMELTN]

looks awesome.. but looks like a 8 month old pregnant woman......

Looks more like a cellphone on my desktop than a IM client

all I am worried about is how does it perform. Is it fast? Does it take forever to load? thats all I care about

[nshahzad]

the tiled contacts is the stupidest idea ever.

isnt there a skin for native UI? i remember seeing one. well, the whole point of nUI is not to have a skin

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i hope they give this for free to everyone who already paid, since it was assumed when they first launched it and they hyped up another release soon

[Brian M. Veteran]

Agreed. It looks great (and im a long time Trillian Pro user), but they really need to hurry things up! Even Microsoft dont take this long

[xxdesmus]

the tiled contacts is the stupidest idea ever.

isnt there a skin for native UI? i remember seeing one. well, the whole point of nUI is not to have a skin

As far as I know they basically said, "no, we have no plans of including a native UI option. stop asking us." ...

Now, I could be wrong, and maybe they finally saw the freaking light, but when I they asked for feature requests and I posted that one (along with about 10 other people) they basically ignored them (and deleted my request for it in fact). Cute huh? What a great way to communicate with your customers....ignore the requests you just asked for. :|

[:: Lyon ::]

Well they can't simply accept/follow everyone's requests

But I agree with they are really "taking" their time lol

[Jase]

this looks pretty well done, cant wait to give Trillian another go.

[JustGeorge]

Not sure why they're so against the native UI requests. Its not like there isn't enough demand for it.

[DiEMOS]

sex....

i love it, been using Trillian 3.1 since i can remember.

fellas check this out http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ap/index.php?area=performance

LOTS OF GOOD STUFF AND INFO.

can't wait.

[AdverseDeviant]

changelog?

Changes from 3.11 -> 4.0

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ap/index.php?area=changelog

[:: Lyon ::]

But honestly, if they don't support msn custom emoticon, it'll be tough - as most of my friends love WLM cause of its custom emoticons

[JustGeorge]

Bah! enough change logs. Give us the damn goods :)

[depl0y]

****ty business practice if you ask me. I'd be one thing if they offered a few updates in the meantime and maybe at a major release like this charge $5 to upgrade, but I'm not going to keep paying for software that isn't regularly supported just to be able to use it.

Dude, they ARE charging you $5 for this upgrade if you already had a subscription that is expired. I had a Trillian subscription for a long time, but after a couple of MSN bugs with Trillian 3.1 I cancelled it.

Now if Astra comes out, all I need to do is take a new subscription and fill in my old subscription details. Then they won't charge ya $25 but $5. It has been like this forever!

BTW, I really do like the interface. Sure it is bloated, but tiling seems funny.

[MichaelEaton]

it does look rather cool... lets hope its out soon, what are the chances of seeing a public beta before christmas?

[AdverseDeviant]

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[noroom]

Wow, ok this one pic does look pretty good, but that is perfectly possible using the current Trillian (except for the dynamically expanding height).

Here is the pic for those curious.

Haha, but it still has a scrollbar! :rofl:

[xxdesmus]

Haha, but it still has a scrollbar! :rofl:

hah, you're right. I didn't even notice that.

That bugs the crap out of me with Trillian 3.1 right now. I have my bud list stretched the whole height of my desktop, my bud list is not nearly long enough to require a scrollbar, and yet the damn thing is displayed. :angry:

Simple things like this that make me wonder why I would pay for buggy software when GAIM/Miranda are plenty powerful with the same or fewer bugs. :blink:

[Copernic Reporter]

http://www.trillianastra.com/

[Xab]

http://www.trillianastra.com/

*hopes someone leaks it*

[giga Veteran]

Mac support? Interesting. Let's see what it will have over Adium..

Certainly hope it won't use that GUI though..

[#Michael]

So who is going to be nice and let the rest of the world play with this? Damn I have been a supporter of Trillian since the .7 days and never liked the fact that I didn't get a response to test this yet.

Anyone...............

I swear, this has got to be the longest testing cycle for any piece of software out there. This had better be one hell of an improvement from 3.1

[Creamy]

Guys, i can tell you: It rocks! :) This is hopefully getting some people from MSN back to Trillian! :)

[#Michael]

Guys, i can tell you: It rocks! :) This is hopefully getting some people from MSN back to Trillian! :)

It's great that it rocks....I'd wish that they'd open it up to more testing. They have been previewing it/alpha testing it for almost a year now.

Its time to let the child grow up.