Comments on: Miranda vs. Trillian

By: Bala Krishna

Bala Krishna — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:49:57 +0000

I have tried most of the available multi protocol messenger including gaim mirinda and trillian. Ultimately, i am back to trillian because no one is better then trillian. However some of the problem are there but not an issue. I like trillian full support of all available protocol.

Thanks

By: Du

Du — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:06:57 +0000

Its a great messenger over all
But whats the point behind not allowing conference in yahoo !

By: GOLIATH

GOLIATH — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:01:57 +0000

I was once a Trillian user, there was a time when I would have beaten the holy hell out of you for even looking like you was thinking of saying something bad about it…………..but then came miranda……..omfg miranda is like 1,000 times better than trillian the 1 and only thing it dosent do is have a webstatus update png image thingy like trillian did, where I can post a picture of my im client in my sig on a forum and it would show my status online/offline….uf miranda made something like that it would be the best chat client ever made and also a myspace plugin wouldnt be a bad idea also

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:59:24 +0000

GAIM started crashing on me every time it connected to MSN (the team actually fixed this problem in one day!) so I went looking for alternatives. I learned about Miranda from Gtalk’s recommendations page and I haven’t regretted it yet! It’s certainly not for the faint-of-heart but I really enjoy that granularity of control. The UI is beautifully simplistic (skins are for gurls) there are zillions of active plugins. I tried the Skype tie-in but decided to let this IM unifier do what it does best. It’s been stable and highly responsive since the get-go.

My only gripe is that no matter how infrequently I set the XML updater to, it still finds a way to minimize the game I’m playing right at the most inopportune moments. I’d love to see a silent updater, and then Miranda will be the perfect IM client for my needs!

By: Martin Andersen

Martin Andersen — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:43:28 +0000

Re your gripe:

# I canâ€™t access more than one account on any single network

You can too :). Just navigate to the folder you installed Miranda to, locate the ‘plugins’ folder, and find the .dll you wish to add a second account to – i.e. MSN.dll. Copy that to a different name – like msn_work.dll –
restart Miranda, and configure the second dll.’

Clunky, yes. Counter-intuitive, yes. But it works.

By: j. brotherlove

j. brotherlove — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:16:45 +0000

Have you detailed Trillian’s “performance issues”? I’m interested to know what’s so bad about 3.x that you would opt for a solution with as many dislikes you’ve noted.

By: Caesar Whiddick

Caesar Whiddick — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:47:16 +0000

Thanks for this pointer, Chris. I’m currently using Trillian Pro 3.1, but am willing to consider other platforms such as Miranda. Trillian development seems to move at a fairly slow pace, innovation-wise. Anyway, would you be willing to share you Miranda configuration/setup with me/us? I’d be grateful. Thanks for your consideration.

By: Jason J. Thomas

Jason J. Thomas — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:43:46 +0000

I have to admit that you will have to pry Gaim from my cold, dead hands before I move to another "universal" IM client. Trillian was always bloated to me, and Miranda seems busy. I like the clean, utilitarian interface of Gaim.Now, if they can only get 2.0 out of beta, I will be one happy camper.