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Does anyone use Trillian as a replacement for AIM?

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MazerRackham

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Just wondering if Trillian is keeping up its right agains AOL to make it compatible with AIM.... I used it for a bit but the AIM blocking was getting to be too much...
 
Yes, and it has worked very nicely lately.
I am sure AOL will break it again - but I don't care right now.

I mostly use encrypted connections over ICQ now, although they are possible over AIM as well
 
Trillian is awesome.

They've done an excellent job of coming up with a patch every time AOL blocks them from their network.
 
btw, this is sort of dealing with a different thing.... i thought i'd hijack the thread instead of creating a new one if you don't mind 😉 (of course i will say that i use aim after i got triallian actually, and it has been doing great so far)

most of the time when i restart my win2k machine, i lost the personal profile i have set on my account... that means if someone look at my profile, it will give the default "my profile" instead of what i have typed or changed it to ... anyone having the same problem?

thank you in advance 🙂

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AIM + keeps a history and gets rid of adds also.

anyway i use trillian cause i hate aol and i like it better. if anything you can skin it which is cool
 
I like Trillian much better than say YAhoo or MSN. I have been using EyeBallChat and it is stellar. It has video messaging and it integrates your buddy lists in. Pretty cool so far.
 
I too love Trillian very much, it is a great project and I very much admire what Cerulean has done. I love many of the features, especially the logging, which I missed when I switched off of ICQ. The AIM blocking was a real pain in the neck, though, as has been mentioned, although it served as an interesting springboard into something that has been really cool. My roommate and I got sick of AOL and decided that depending on their networks, or anybody else's networks, was more than we wanted to put up with. So we tried to envision a new kind of chat client that had such low server dependency that a server wouldn't even be totally necessary all the time.

Our vision has come true in BitWise. We have written a server and a client from the ground up, and we've added almost all of the basic functionality that you need to comfortably message, and even some unique features to boot. Including an option where you can "log in" without the server using cached information, and even talk to your buddies if they're online at their last known IP address. This also works great as a "stealth" mode if you want to go almost undetected.

One last comment--because we're writing this thing from the ground up, with our own protocols (not relying on anyone else's), we have much more flexibility. You want something in your chat client? Ask for it, we may be able to do it. If you've always wanted that certain feature, you can let us know and we can put it in with everything else (assuming it's reasonable).

Note I'm not putting down Trillian--just pointing out that it still has dependency on other systems and is limited by that. I still use Trillian myself religiously.
 
I see through this thread that trillion is good to use, but what is the url to download it. I'd rather click here then have to search for it.
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Last time I tried using Trillian, it didn't support file-transfers or AIM buddy list editing.

nik
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It supports file transfers now.

Buddy list editing is there in a very sparse form. But I hear it will be much more in depth with the next release.
 
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