Best IM Client

[matty13]

Whats your favorite IM Client that supports large contacts and can login pretty fast?

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

Miranda imo.

can load icq, jabber and msn

[giga Veteran]

Adium.

Agreed.

Though for all you windows users the closest thing to it is Miranda. :p

[Toology]

Gaim.

I've tried Miranda but it gave me the feel of an unorganized mess when I tried to manage my accounts and even more so when I tried customizing it. At least Gaim can adapt visually to whatever visual style I may be using and the icons in the /pixmaps directory can always be replaced with your own.

[buckaroo]

Miranda

[ninjakarl]

I've never really liked Miranda, it's way too un-organised. Gaim ftw.

[Avatar Viper]

another vote for miranda :)

[Mathachew Veteran]

I use Trillian, the I do wish the Pro version behaved like it was less bloated, ie: ran faster.

I tried GAIM, but I couldn't get used to it as I was missing a few of the niceities of Trillian.

[BigDaddy]

Another one for miranda

[subferno]

I like Trillian for its features but its a resource hog.

Gaim is nice and is what I am using right now. For some reason though, the latest betas keep crashing on me when I try to start it. I get an ntdll.dll file is faulting or something weird.

[AimLXJ]

Gaim, takes only 3 seconds to login AIM, MSN and IRC for my usage and over 100 friends on my list

[way2quik]

i love miranda for its low memory usage, but you have to be really up to date with all the plugins to actually keep miranda from working.

i dont have all the time to customize it the way i want to.

guess illtry gaim or adium..... i rather use all in one than WLM...

but WLM b/c it's just widely used... (except for americans, they use aim)..

[Cosmin]

Trillian .

[seba79]

Miranda (ICQ, MSN, GG) :sleep:

[Tuffgong4]

I have enjoyed miranda, gaim and Trillian all for different reasons, but when I figured out you can stop the A/V plugin from loading in Trillian and make it start so much faster I just went back to simple and easy trillian

if you go into the Trillian directory, go into the user folder and find plugins.ini and change the av plugin setting in notepad from Enabled=1 to Enabled=0 the av plugin never starts and makes Trillian startup a lot quicker.

[tmahmood]

another one for GAIM... :D Its just good

[cork1958]

Gaim!!

[dirka]

Lucky you. I moved to Germany over a year ago, and here nobody has a passport account. They're all ICQers, and ICQ sucks. ICQ SUCKS. DIE ICQ, DIEEEE! :angry:

OMG, I thought I was the only person that noticed this....every damn german is using ICQ and I hate it. I will help you kill ICQ once and for all. go WLM

[Ulmi]

Miranda (MSN, Gtalk, IRC)

If ur a new user try to find a pack that suits your needs to avoid the pain of building your messenger...well i like it but most ppl don?t!!

[Carcharoth]

Miranda. And nothing else. I've been using it for over 3 years now and tried GAIM, Trillian, ICQ, Adium and so on....no messenger is better than Miranda. The only problem is that people are too lazy to set it up :p

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Windows Live Messenger (Y)

[thagame]

Windows Live Messenger (Y)

(Y)

[Brad87]

GOOOOOOGLE TALK!

[ViperAFK]

I like Trillian for its features but its a resource hog.

Gaim is nice and is what I am using right now. For some reason though, the latest betas keep crashing on me when I try to start it. I get an ntdll.dll file is faulting or something weird.

How is it a resource hog? I've never seen it use more than 10 mb of memory on ANY computer.

[DeMo_BR]

I like Miranda, but sometimes it messes up my MSN contacts, it adds a lot of people to the blocked list (I don't know why).

[eilegz]

ICQ, its the most advanced it have many features that other didnt have at that time, offline msg, history, contcatlist cards, different way to search for someone, share folder, Transfer files resume among others, too bad that people liked a more n00b aproach like AIM and MSN.

Anyways ICQ its still very good and full featured, too bad that AOL screw up ICQ by focuing only in lite version intead of PRO