Comments on: AOL Testing Triton, Replacement For AIM

By: manic

manic — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:13:26 +0000

dead aim is fire… just go to oldversion.com get the old aim 5.1 and the old deadaim 3 something and it works like charms.. -manic

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:13:53 +0000

Don’t bother buying DeadAim. They’ve completely stopped any further development on it. DeadAim is totally dead.

By: Austin

Austin — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:53:32 +0000

Gaim, without a doubt. Always works well for me.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:18:20 +0000

Triton is working nice now that I have figured out how to make a few adjustments to the settings…The #1 reason I like it better than aim is because it allows you to set a custom away message for each linked account. But in AIM no matter what you set your away status to the linked accounts would just have the default away message from aim.

By: Miranda real estate

Miranda real estate — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:09:03 +0000

You are absolutely right

By: plumbers

plumbers — Mon, 09 May 2005 18:25:29 +0000

plumbers

By: cameron (desk003)

cameron (desk003) — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:20:22 +0000

I tried triton last night. Ads are there. It looks nice, but if theres ads its not gonna be used by me.

I use Trillian 3.1 Pro. Love it.

By: Just Me

Just Me — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:48:18 +0000

I’ve tried Triton, i like it alot. I’ve used many of the alternatives, but none of them can get the file transfers right. Triton is pretty good. Took a little getting used to, though, the buddy list is VERY busy. The only problem i see is that when you click the X, it logs you off instead of putting it in the system tray at the bottom, and alot of the features don’t work yet, so until the rest of it works, i’ll have to wait and see.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:46:10 +0000

On my laptop I use Fire.

On my PC, I use AOL Communicator (basically thunderbird with an AIM client built into it) and YIM. Tried GAIM and Trillian and had issues with both of them that weren’t worth the effort of figuring out how to fix.

I do use GAIM at work sometimes, because we have a jabber server set up that our websphere server can be set to throw error messages to… so I can get instant debug output in a chat window instead of having to dig through log files.

By: Brendan Avery

Brendan Avery — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:42:39 +0000

I use Miranda IM:
http://www.miranda-im.com

Low footprint, multi protocol (like trillian) and I could install it without needs admin privileges at work. w00t. And because I am a developer and IM about code — I dont have to deal with those crap emoticons rendering in my code cut+pastes. Damn those things.

By: cyberDrake

cyberDrake — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:19:34 +0000

gaim rocks all the way…

By: minghong

minghong — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:03:10 +0000

A fan of Gaim. Gaim has tabbed message dialog long long time ago.

By: Chris McElligott

Chris McElligott — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:50:59 +0000

iChat and I’m not allowed on the Internet at work so nothing on the PC

By: Joshua Lane

Joshua Lane — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:41:01 +0000

PC: Trillian
MAC: iChat

By: brokenshard

brokenshard — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:24:56 +0000

Miranda!

one reason for that is that it skins with windows…. unlike trillian which doesnt.

By: Jonathan Horak

Jonathan Horak — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:19:37 +0000

Adium.

By: Scott C

Scott C — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:17:38 +0000

Adium forever

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:35:29 +0000

I’ve been using Gaim for a long time. I picked it over Trillian because I like the simplicity.

By: proph3t

proph3t — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:27:27 +0000

Messenger:Mate

Wonderful new and often updated AIM mod. Like DeadAIM but 10x better.

By: joebob

joebob — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:01:33 +0000

still trying to find a good linux client until then i use kopete

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:40:58 +0000

Adium. Nothing sucks less.

By: sryo

sryo — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:37:21 +0000

I use Miranda, smaller that the rest, more extensible due to the amount of plugins currently availible for it, very customizable, and windows native (so it’s faster and more responsive than gaim on win32).
Used to use Trillian some years ago, then switched to Gaim, which is excelent too, but stayed with Miranda.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:29:39 +0000

I use Fire. It works. I like it. Even if it doesn’t support all the file-transfer and what-not.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:29:25 +0000

I’m using gaim because I didn’t want to pay for Trillian Pro, but both are awesome.

By: Michael Greene

Michael Greene — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:27:05 +0000

I use Gaim 99% of the time, with AIM+DeadAIM for the other 1%.

By: Ryan Latham

Ryan Latham — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:54:22 +0000

I tired this Triton thing, it lasted me 3 minutes…so far it in three minutes it crashed twice and doesn’t close (minimize) to the tray. So for now I will continue using AIM with Aim-Ad Hack.

By: Noah Bradley

Noah Bradley — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:46:04 +0000

I use GAIM, because it’s so simple to use. Not to mention, stacking 5 buddy pounces every time they say something is just pure fun (although, I imagine other clients have that… but AIM doesn’t), :)

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:37:42 +0000

I use Trillian 3.0 Pro and it is awesome. I used to use Gaim which was cool too but the user interface is fairly dull. I would recommend both over AIM.

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:33:59 +0000

I guess I could post what I use.

On my Windows machine at work, I use Trillian 3.0. I also used to use DeadAIM. Even paid for the upgrade to make it work with the newest version of AIM, but it did some wierd things when I tried to get rid of toolbars and stuff. It would leave buttons floating on the edge of the screen and things like that. Might also have been an issue with UtlraMon, which I also use.

On my Powerbook, I am using iChat. I tried a few of the alternatives, but have been happy with iChat so I stuck with it.

By: drktyrael

drktyrael — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:33:15 +0000

use both trillian and aim

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:19:41 +0000

Trillian…

I used to use Dead AIM (when it was free), then when I saw trillian 2.0 (a loonng time ago) I was hooked. I loved the tabbed chat boxes and the skins. The only annoying part about trillian is getting the “micro browser” plugin so you can click links and such when you are viewing people’s info.