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I primarily use MSN Messenger, but have a few die-hard Yahoo and AIM users that throw a spanner in the works. It’d be great to simplify matters by having just one IM client, but those on offer all seem to be lacking features present in the individual properietary IM clients.
A big thumbs up for the Interoperability Matrix (https://bigblueball.com/im/interoperability.asp), but has bigblueball got any plans to incorporate a similar comparison dealing with IM client features?
There must be a finite list of mainstream features desired by the majority of IM users (e.g. Multi-user conversations, File-transfer, Voice & Webcam chat, Offline messages) and a matrix of these for the latest non-Beta versions of each of the clients would be most useful indeed.
I’m guessing it’s going to be a while before any (relatively) bug free clients with all of the features listed is available across multiple IM platforms, so I guess I’m stuck for now… or am I wrong?
Thank you for the great suggestion. A matrix of all features of IM clients is certainly something that would be nice to have on BigBlueBall.
Until then, have another look at Trillian. Especially the pro version (with all the plugins you can get for it) has a lot of extra features.
Thanks for the swift reply DJHyperbyte,
Just had a dig around the Trillian site (http://www.trillian.cc) and frankly can see little that lives up to its ‘Limitless Communication’ tagline.
There are as you say some Plugins (see http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/downloads.php?d_type=Plugins&SortBy=All) but few if any address the features I mentioned.
Granted, some such as POP3/IMAP/mobile support are ‘nice-to-haves’ but most are simply small utilities that frankly you’d expect to be built in to the full release by default.
For instance, if you require Weather Updates, an RSS newsfeed, or a spell-checker then there’s plenty to keep you going… but for $25 where’s the facility for (e.g.) Multi-user conversations, Voice/Webcam chat & Offline messages?
Of course I may be missing something obvious, in which case please feel free to correct me. Sometimes it’s difficult to trawl through the individual IM client websites and distinguish what they can do from what they can’t! Which is where a feature comparison matrix, administered by those who eat’n’drink IM, would really come in handy.
So I guess I’m still stuck with the menage a trois of MSN/Yahoo/AIM – urrghhh, what an unhappy union…
OK, upon further digging it would appear that Trillian Pro does at least have some manner of Webcam capabilities – http://www.trillian.cc/support/manual.php?hchap=3&hsub=5
This implies it’s only available for Yahoo accounts however – does anybody know if it also works for MSN? And if sound is implicit, or just images?
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