Proteus is now free

I am disappointed that Proteus is now free - one or two years ago, I purchased a license and shortly after that (also with the change in ownerchip), Proteus got buggy and unusable, so I switched to Adium, because I wanted reliability more than features.

Now they are making it free, and I once more feel like an idiot: first to have spent 30 bucks or something for crappy stuff and now... again! Darn! =)

Meh. At least it has tabs. I checked out Proteus, but decided against it. It's got some good polish elements to it, and in some ways feels more integrated than Adium, but I'll be sticking with Adium because:

Tabbed chat window is necessary. A drawer just doesn't cut it.
Very customizable, but not as customizable as Adium.
I like OSS.

It was a close call though, and maybe some day I'll end up using it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Heh, that should read "I HATE variable width tabs"...I can't type today. :/

When the UB comes out, I'm dropping Adium and switching back to Proteus. The reason I hate Adium is because:

1) A connection error has occured: Could not send.
2) I have variable width tabs.

Since I have a license for Proteus from when I had my iBook, I'll gladly go back to it. There's not one issue I have with it. Adium has too many quirks for me.

. I also was a hardcore Proteus user for quite a long time, I think even purchased a license at one point. But similar to Lee, there was some feature or lack there of that I can't remember that was an annoyance, but I switched to Adium and haven't looked back since.


Now you see why they've made it free. :)

I also was a hardcore Proteus user for quite a long time, I think even purchased a license at one point. But similar to Lee, there was some feature or lack there of that I can't remember that was an annoyance, but I switched to Adium and haven't looked back since.

That's good news, but Adium is free, was free and is awesome. Maybe I'll check it out though. :)

Proteus sucks for the fact that you can't rearrange the groups in the buddy list.

I was a full-blown Proteus user until recently. Crazy thing is, I can't remember why I switched to Adium. Something was bugging me and I don't know what it was.

In any case, I'm pretty near solid on Adium now. I do miss Proteus' feature of acting as an intermediary to combine people from multiple protocols into a single chat, but I don't miss it so badly to go back to Proteus.

Any Proteus users want to extoll the virtues of Proteus relative to AdiumX?