Trillian Astra

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halcyoncmdr

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Youtube video of a new feature they are working on...

Their reasons behind the closed testing are well-founded IMHO... as long as you think about it from a development standpoint and what they are actually doing it all makes sense.

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It's amazing how upset some people are getting over an instant messenger, some of you people need to get a life. Given the amount of stupidity in this thread it's no wonder why Astra alpha testing isn't public. It has been 2 years since 3.1 was released and 7 since the first version of Trillian was made public. Astra is a complete rewrite, if you can do the math that is well over 5 years of work in just over 2.

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Its all cool and all, but cant they release a version now and let the web interface come in later revisions...like utorrent of sorts....why not do that?

That's like half-ass releasing a game and patching it later. It's not good for developers or consumers. Some things are better when you wait.

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That's like half-ass releasing a game and patching it later. It's not good for developers or consumers. Some things are better when you wait.

I disagree, I'd rather have it sooner and they can fix things after. I hate when companies hold off on releasing things forever just because there are some issues that some people may not even care about.

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dagamer34

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That first part sounds like EA.

How'd you know?!?! :p

I disagree, I'd rather have it sooner and they can fix things after. I hate when companies hold off on releasing things forever just because there are some issues that some people may not even care about.

When you start getting that mentality, you'll eventually become prone to releasing products early for the sake of money and having quality ride in the back seat. And what happens if those fixes never come? Do you screw the consumer that needs them?

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When you start getting that mentality, you'll eventually become prone to releasing products early for the sake of money and having quality ride in the back seat. And what happens if those fixes never come? Do you screw the consumer that needs them?

People stop buying your products and you go out of business?

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Astra is a complete rewrite, if you can do the math that is well over 5 years of work in just over 2.

I tried one of the alphas and frankly it just felt like trillian 3 with a new skin, it didn't feel that special, and most of the menus are in the same place like the preferences.

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Tokar

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Duh they want you to think that, but honestly with out a account on Trillian it will not save your passwords for the pluggins unless you cross them with crippled 3.1 plugins, then the point of a new trillian is done. But it's great if you dont restart it alot
The leaked builds that have been going around are completely virus free, I'm not sure what they were referring to in that post.

Hope everyone gets a chance to download this and check it out, it should have been a public alpha from the start, damn CS elitists.

Just another scare tactic trying to discourage people from using the build. The build they referred to was one labeled as Build 31 (which actually turned out to be Build 32) and included an IRC plugin. No viruses were found by my Kaspersky AV.

Just another RIAA/MPAA style scare tactic. They just want to feel all exclusive because they have the alphas and you dont and they want to keep it that way. Just go onto a torrent search engine and search Trillian Astra...it aint exclusive no more.

Thats just how private betas work...you invite the wrong guy and it goes out on Torrent/Usenet. Cry about it.

Trillian Astra should have been public from the onset as Xab said. No point in exclusivity.

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Just another scare tactic trying to discourage people from using the build. The build they referred to was one labeled as Build 31 (which actually turned out to be Build 32) and included an IRC plugin. No viruses were found by my Kaspersky AV.

Just another RIAA/MPAA style scare tactic. They just want to feel all exclusive because they have the alphas and you dont and they want to keep it that way. Just go onto a torrent search engine and search Trillian Astra...it aint exclusive no more.

Thats just how private betas work...you invite the wrong guy and it goes out on Torrent/Usenet. Cry about it.

Trillian Astra should have been public from the onset as Xab said. No point in exclusivity.

There actually was a fake one with a trojan. The one with the IRC plug-in came after and was different.

In any case, just got my invite. I'm assuming they are expanding the testing field a big deal now since I didn't sign-up near when it opened.

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IAIHMB

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I tried one of the alphas and frankly it just felt like trillian 3 with a new skin, it didn't feel that special, and most of the menus are in the same place like the preferences.

That's a good thing, people are already comfortable with the user interface and some even think that Astra is on par with the last major release. :) I'm not sure if you're a developer but one of the biggest reasons for the rewrite was refactoring. Because of the refactoring Trillian is now easier to extend, performs better and uses less resources, and is portable to other operating systems such as Linux. The second of which can be seen in Astra but the other two will be transparent until the remaining features are implemented.

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I f it kind of ironic that the iPhone's Astra web app's GUI looks much nicer than the desktop version's, imo at least. I hope the desktop version will feature such a compact mode as well.

It kind of looks like the Cobalt skin they already included as the minimalistic option.

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