Trillian Astra

[OxideNOS]

thats the only IM client i use. works greatest.. :)

[Copernic Reporter]

New domain for Trillian ! :woot:

http://www.trillianastra.com/

[#Michael]

After a year or so of no work they really seem to be taking off. I might just have to renew my subscription to get an early look at this.

[Sammyinnit]

I never did care for trillian.

[Ethere]

The only reason I didn't care for Trillian is because of what someone else mentioned, about the skinning engine. I really would request that they have the option to let Windows skin everything, and not just the options windows, etc.

[L3thal Veteran]

Is the online time bug on AIM fixed where every buddy is shown to be online for 1 minute? It has been a bug for over 1 1/2 years.

[vip]

Well, when I hear some more news on this I will be renewing my sub! :D

[Copernic Reporter]

Hi everyone,

We have rolled out the first alpha of Trillian 4 and have been knee-deep in bug reports! The alpha is currently in the hands of roughly 40 people, and we will be expanding the tester count in the coming weeks. The next phase of testing will involve sending the build to those of you who signed up via e-mail a while back. We've had quite a few bugs/suggestions reported (59 bugs fixed so far!) since we started, and are continuing to add new features as feedback warrants.

Please remember - as we bring more of you into the testing team, the product will still be considered 'alpha'. This means it's not done yet, and it also means we're listening to your feature suggestions as opposed to just fixing bugs in existing features.

Thanks!

Statistics as of this post...

Current Build: 4.0.0.17

Number of Alpha Testers: 36

Bugs fixed so far: 59

Bugs still open: 48

http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/

:woot:

[Xab]

http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/

:woot:

Would like to see some more screenshots

[Lee]

Maybe it's leaked? :p

[Copernic Reporter]

Maybe it's leaked?:pp

It's not leaked until now, still looking for it... :whistle::

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

Just to let you know to not post link to download

Just in case someone would even try... ;)

[k311]

I just hope the windows skin with the rest of Windows..please, I'm begging for that.

i must have tried trillian 4 or 5 times and every time i uninstall it because of this

[Copernic Reporter]

From http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/

We are currently packaging internal build 20 and are targetting a public sneak preview of the alpha as well as inducting more testers into the team within the next 1-2 builds.

:woot:

[Rappy Veteran]

Its about time....I have been monitoring the project :)

[1WayJonny]

man i bought trillian

im sure alot fo you have

and i been waiting for an update forever and the 1 screen shot i saw made me wanna slit my wrist and lay in a tub of ice

anybody got some screen shots besides the 1 and the dumb login screen

[macmax]

Astra in Hindi means Shield ... Lets see if their shield is strong enough to protect its members from jumping to either WLM, Y! 8 or Gchat

[JAbad28]

Wow look's awesome!! Damn it's been forever since trillian 3 came out and I loved the program too. Don't use it anymore but I hope this releases soon.

How we get to test it?

[Chris Allen Veteran]

Hopefully they fix the annoying bugs that were in V.3. I love trillian.

[stadsport]

I'm not too fond of Trillian because it's such a resource hog, and I've found a lot of its features to either be annoying or buggy, even to the point of being completely nonfunctional, and I expect T4 to be exactly the same, if not just a feature creaping version of 3. Hopefully T4 will prove me wrong.

But in any case, it's not an issue as I'm using Adium >:D.

[ViperAFK]

Its been so long since 3.1, I hope they release a public beta soon

[Xab]

Its been so long since 3.1, I hope they release a public beta soon

According to the blog they should release a public preview within the next 1-2 builds. I hope they do it before too long, they usually take forever on stuff =\

[Adster01]

Well seeing as though this thread was started back in May, they're taking their sweet time...

[JustGeorge]

They never seem to comment on requests for native skinning of the GUI so I doubt we'll see it. I suggest making your voice heard over in their forums if you want it. I know I sure do!

I don't think T3 was a resource hog as mine is using about 7~8 meg with AIM, MSN and Rendevous protocols running. The problem is the GUI is clunky and slow. T3 is also very slow to exit on shutdown too. Anyway, I stopped paying for updates cause they're so damn slow with them. They're like MS where everything is piled up for some big release. The only developers slower than MS and Celurean are the developers of an emulator called "MagicEngine".

[Frank]

Is the online time bug on AIM fixed where every buddy is shown to be online for 1 minute? It has been a bug for over 1 1/2 years.

This is probably why I will not repurchase my subscription to Trillian. There has been so many bugs (most of them small) that go ignored by the developers. I have tried a few other multi protocol chat programs and none of them come close to Trillian.