Comments on: Trillian Astra Instant Messaging Alpha Preview

By: ESTASHIA

ESTASHIA — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:05:42 +0000

I THINK THAT AIM SHOULD BE EXCEPTIBLE

By: johnsmithcanadianeh

johnsmithcanadianeh — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:03:33 +0000

the kid sounds fucking annoying

By: bakere19

bakere19 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:30:14 +0000

I use Pidgin

By: bakere19

bakere19 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:30:06 +0000

yea as hes running vista

By: Mikehobo

Mikehobo — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:33:58 +0000

Is that the kid who was on Ventrilo Harassment???

By: chocolaterazr96

chocolaterazr96 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:11:18 +0000

o thanx 4 vista?

By: Vivissin

Vivissin — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:15:14 +0000

It’s an instant messaging program.

By: chocolaterazr96

chocolaterazr96 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:24:03 +0000

what the hell is astra?

By: betelgeuse81

betelgeuse81 — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:58:02 +0000

does anybody have a trillian astra invite that they’d like to send me? please? :)

By: bluefusion123

bluefusion123 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:43:15 +0000

OMG do u have to add ur contacts again after u install it. because ive swapped from msn clent to this?!?!?

By: musicmaker85

musicmaker85 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:19:41 +0000

Yeah, Pidgin is good. It’s certainly improved since the Gaim days.

By: HenryKorol

HenryKorol — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:34:21 +0000

Same here but then I tried pidgin and never looked back :)

By: musicmaker85

musicmaker85 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:19:41 +0000

Yeah, Pidgin is good. It’s certainly improved since the Gaim days.

By: HenryKorol

HenryKorol — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:34:21 +0000

Same here but then I tried pidgin and never looked back :)

By: Washii

Washii — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:14:18 +0000

While I would agree with you most of the time, Trejkaz, the Astra system is actually fairly nice, and the overhead used in rendering its own UI seems to be fairly low. This in comparison to when I tried out Safari not long ago. Then again, I have been a Trillian Pro user for several years now, so this may just be slight fanboyism.

Of course, part of the idea for Astra is to hold against the Vista theming as well. We’ll have to see how the OSX, Web and iPhone clients hold up, of course.

My main complaint is that no ‘performance considerations’ are yet being made. What does that mean? My system locks up for half a minute whenever I shutdown Astra. This is actually an extreme improvement with Build 60, though. Before that, it would take over a minute.

Finally: to anybody that’s used Trillian, Pro or not, I wonder what they would actually think of this blog post. Besides the in-program skin switching, I don’t see anything all that big in difference between 3.1 and Astra. A lot of what I see is actually implementing the stuff that’s been in other clients for a few years, except for the little nag that we can’t individually change MSN account display names.