Trillian 5.0 for Windows final, now ad-supported (pro option avail.)

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Trillian 5: Chat everywhere. For free.

Raise a glass ? today marks the official release of Trillian 5 for Windows! With a beautiful new interface, vastly improved social integration, cloud-based chat history, and our recently unveiled ?continuous client? feature keeping you synchronized between devices, there?s never been a better time to use Trillian. Even cooler?

Trillian is going free for desktop and mobile, starting today with Trillian 5!

Themes, an awesome activity history viewer, and all the rest of Trillian?s great features will now be available to everyone! This is an exciting step forward and means our users will always experience the best products we have to offer. To continue to reward our amazing paying customers, Trillian Pro will carry on as a way to contribute to our development efforts directly, hide ads across all versions, and unlock the ability to store your chat history online. We hope you?re as excited as we are and will continue to support Trillian and spread the word!

The free versions of our mobile products are not live yet but we are working on finishing them up right now. We?ve put a brief Q&A together below with additional details ? happy chatting, and thanks for using Trillian!

What?s going free? All previous Trillian Pro features: the ability to sign in from multiple locations, themes, the activity history viewer, and every other minor feature previously available to Pro subscribers only! We are also hard at work on free versions of all mobile editions of Trillian, which should be making their way to an app store near you shortly.

How will the new Trillian Pro service work? Pro service can be purchased yearly. We?re setting the price at $12 per year, or basically a dollar per month. As long as your account is a valid Pro account, you won?t see advertising on any platform and can store your chats online. However, if you?ve already purchased Trillian 5, you?ve been grandfathered into Pro! See the question below for the details.

What happens to me as a paid Trillian 5 customer? You?ve been automatically grandfathered into the new Trillian Pro. You shouldn?t see any advertisements (ever!) and chat history storage should be unlocked in preferences (for as long as you use Trillian 5). Thanks for your support!

What happens to me as a paid Trillian 4 customer? You can continue to run paid copies of Trillian 4 without seeing advertisements. Thanks for your support!

What happens to me as a paid mobile customer? You will continue to receive free software updates and will not see any advertisements, but synchronized chat history will only be available if you upgrade your account to Pro status. Thanks for your support!

What happens when my Pro membership lapses? Advertisements will return, but you?ll always have read and delete access to the chat history you?ve already generated. In addition, all desktop versions of Trillian store chat logs to disk locally, which will continue to populate. The conversations on any of your desktop computers will be retroactively uploaded as soon as you renew Trillian Pro.

How will advertising work? We?ll be utilizing standard advertisement solutions on the mobile side, and have created beautiful ad units on the desktop side. Desktop ads are organic members of your chat window ? meaning they scroll away naturally ? and do not animate, do not play sounds, and can be hidden on an individual basis.

We hope you enjoy the new Trillian!

Source: Cerulean Studios blog

Download: Trillian 5.0.0.32 for Windows

[TCA]

good to know but i like astra better then 5

[deactivated_]

Prompts to install Ask.com toolbar.

then... prompts to install eBay add-on for Firefox.

I realize it's SOP to try and force unnecessary junk on those that haven't learned to not just click 'Next next next done' without reading, but still...

[BetaAddict]

good to know but i like astra better then 5

They are essentially the same except trillian 5 has quiet a bit of new features (mainly sync) and got rid of the ugly astra design for a more refined and traditional chat window design.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Not bad, quite a lot of customization than what I'm used to. This client seems to have some trouble with retrieving MSN/WLM buddy icons though. :/

[c3ntury]

I tried Astra and the UI was .. ugly. I'll try this one over the summer perhaps.

[Chasethebase Veteran]

good to know but i like astra better then 5

:blink:

How can you like the UI that Astra has over the lightweight, native UI that 5 has.

Also @ C3ntury, here's what the 5 UI is like.

[Boo Berry]

Plus if you want the Astra theme for 5.x, you can use it.

[Denis W. Veteran]

One gripe with the ads: they're persistent toasts. I would've been okay if they hid themselves after a while, but it seems like you have to dismiss them yourself.

[ViperAFK]

They are essentially the same except trillian 5 has quiet a bit of new features (mainly sync) and got rid of the ugly astra design for a more refined and traditional chat window design.

I love trillian 5 :) finally fits in with windows. Astra had one of the most atrocious UI designs I have ever seen. Astra was out of place and gaudy. 5 is sleek and integrated.

[Elessar]

They are essentially the same except trillian 5 has quiet a bit of new features (mainly sync) and got rid of the ugly astra design for a more refined and traditional chat window design.

Not only that, but the code has been optimized a good bit. I test both Astra and 5 and 5 is much, MUCH faster/smoother.

[LiquidSolstice]

One gripe with the ads: they're persistent toasts. I would've been okay if they hid themselves after a while, but it seems like you have to dismiss them yourself.

Can you show me what the ads look like? I have Pro and have been grandfathered into the Pro plan, so I don't know what they look like.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Can you show me what the ads look like? I have Pro and have been grandfathered into the Pro plan, so I don't know what they look like.

Sorry, uninstalled already :p

The ads used the same sign in/out notifications, but they did not go away automatically - you have to hit the 'No Thanks' link inside the toast.

[PT 13]

Haven't seen any ads... but as soon as I see the first going to uninstall.

Trillian has been giving me too many bugs latetly. Can't send images, can't see gtalk avatars, etc etc :\

[Quillz]

I used to use Trillian way back in the day. Seemed to me like v5 was vaporware. It's nice, but I think I'll stick with Pidgin or Adium.

[LiquidSolstice]

I used to use Trillian way back in the day. Seemed to me like v5 was vaporware. It's nice, but I think I'll stick with Pidgin or Adium.

I think you'll want to check out what the meaning of vaporware is, because I don't think it means what you think it means.

[Elessar]

I used to use Trillian way back in the day. Seemed to me like v5 was vaporware. It's nice, but I think I'll stick with Pidgin or Adium.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaporware

[Arkaic]

I think you'll want to check out what the meaning of vaporware is, because I don't think it means what you think it means.

I dont think he misunderstood it.

I used to use Trillian way back in the day. Seemed to me like v5 was vaporware. It's nice, but I think I'll stick with Pidgin or Adium.

[Denis W. Veteran]

They need to be careful about how much they annoy their users. There are great alternatives such as Digsby, which some may say even looks and works better.

i prefer Trillian though.

I was hoping to move from Digsby to Trillian, but I went back to Digsby. However, Digsby's main problem is that they're dragging their feet to support the latest MSN protocol, which then means I get booted out of my contact list if I try using Windows Live Mail or Sync.

[LiquidSolstice]

I dont think he misunderstood it.

How can something seem to be vaporware when it very clearly was released? Duke Nukem Forever was vaporware for the longest time, that's the defintion of vaporware.

What he probably meant was that Trillian 5 seemed to be in permanent beta, and if that's the case, he would have a point.

[Inklin]

I updated to it, but I also have not seen a single ad yet.

I personally preferred it the other way however, I liked having less features and no ads.

[TCA]

I use skins for astra....and i've used ver. 5 before but went back. It's not a big deal for me that's all I may totally end up doing away with messengers since no one is on anyways to chat with

[TCA]

I know. I use Avion Pro for astra nicest one for it imo... But when I was using 5 before it was still new

[Elessar]

I know. I use Avion Pro for astra nicest one for it imo... But when I was using 5 before it was still new

Great skin. It took me like 2 years to get my ass to update GuiStyle for Astra...going through lines of code for old skins just sucks the life and fun out of skinning :(

/shameless self-promotion