Best IM Client

[matty13]

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

[illicit]

Another vote for Miranda.

[LunarFalcon]

I love the super-simple google talk, but none of my friends use it :hmmm:

[somethingthatrhymes]

I like Kopete on Linux, or Gaim on Windows.

[iMonkey]

Whatever gets the job done, that said, WLM doesn't like my router, and I dislike OSS [Communism]

[eilegz]

The ICQ protocol is technically superior, but the client is bollocks crappy, and that's what killed it. Slow performance, huge memory footprint, lack of skinning with a default ugly non-native look. 98a was the best ICQ client back then, every version after that simply added bloat. It didn't help that ICQ insisted on using difficult-to-remember strings of digits for its usernames, instead of email addresses/actual usernames as like every other competiting protocol. ICQ's multi-party chat was also remarkably inferior to MSN back when I still used it - inviting others took forever and people would just drop from the chat for no rhyme or reason.

u should see latest version of wlm, no IM its perfect and unbloated it need a aptach or mess patch to have it clean and useful look, the same thing we can say about ICQ, icq changed a lot the lite version its more user friendly and now ICQ its less bloated and less setup size compared to msn, also memory its not an issue anymore (for most neowinians at least).

I feel that icq multichat was slow to connect but it works very well and fast with more people, also ICQ got a best system to search for friends not only by number, also contacts cards in ICQ its better.

Well what can i say sometimes something better doesnt mean that more people will use it, and icq its not perfect but well now that everyone moved to msn i have nothing to do...

And thanks to AOL ICQ its death instead of pushing icq and aim into one integrated platform too bad that aol didnt know a word called convergence.

Oh BTW ICQ works well in vista compared to WLM that crash a lot :sleep:

[EnzoFX]

just switched to Miranda IM and loving it, i love how i can customize almost any aspect of the program, sure it took FOREVER, but......

it looks great, personalized, etc...

[DigitalE]

Oooooh, Astra looks nice. It might be the reason I return to Trillian.

Yes, Astra looks amazing. I might actually purchase it this time around :laugh:

I'm just happy that it finally will support handwriting (tablet PC here :p)

[way2quik]

switched from miranda to gaim.

until miranda stops disconnecting me from msn, its either wlm or gaim.

[WarStorm]

switched from miranda to gaim.

until miranda stops disconnecting me from msn, its either wlm or gaim.

I had the same problem. Went to gaim. Now back to Trillian.

[+.Aaron Subscriber¹]

TRILLIAN ALL THE WAY!! Trillian rules the IM world.

[AaronMT]

Windows Live Messenger.

I have no need for multiprotocol clients. Everyone I know uses the MSN protocol these days.

[JurneyAhed]

Yahoo!M, but most people I know use WLM, which I can't stand.

[tes1234]

I use WLM and Yahoo.. Coz i use advance features Like chat logs, buzz, videochat (sometims), voice chat so i stick to the originals one. and yahoo is more memory hog than WLM..

[Shasoosh]

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)..

its funny how every county uses something else..

in israel kids are using icq, 20+ prefer wlm

[quadz0]

Personally, I like trillian, but it's not very fast logging in.

[JAbad28]

I currently use GAIM, mainly because of it's simplicity and very easy to use interface. Nothing really complicated about it, also it's "very" fast. I know MIRANDA is probably the fastest multi-messenger out there but, I never really got a hook on it. I used many messengers and I like GAIM the best. I am also in the Trillian ASTRA beta and I really like the new interface but, it seems too much for me. Maybe when it's complete i'll try it out.

Vote for GAIM here.