After almost 8 years in production, the open-source instant messaging application
Fire has come to an end. Pre-dating even iChat, Fire was the first multi-protocol client on the platform, and has long had a dedicated user base. The loss of multiple key members of the development team and a reliance on legacy frameworks which were no longer being updated caused key members of the development team to reconsider their future plans and cease active development. Fortunately for fans of the software, two of Fire's developers have joined the
Adium team, and the two applications are already integrating features. Users switching from Fire to Adium can choose to have all of their contacts, logs, away messages, and groups transferred to the new software.
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Sun Chiu said 6:33PM on 2-25-2007
Wow...about time.
Check out Proteus! http://www.proteusx.org/
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Konstantino said 3:47PM on 2-25-2007
Well, at least Adium is going to get even better than it already is. ;)
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Jonathan said 4:21PM on 2-25-2007
Adium is okay- it can't do video chat which makes it eons behind iChat.
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Billy said 4:54PM on 2-25-2007
Adium would be even better if it would support IRC like Fire did.
I know it's against the philosophy of Adium to include IRC support since it's not a "IM" protocol but a "Chat Room" protocol, but at the end of the day, it all comes down to: "I want to chat on MSN, and I want to chat on IRC. And I want the chat program to do it all."
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Thargok said 5:59PM on 2-25-2007
My first OS X application in 2000. I was a regular member until 2005, when it's development and stability were called into question.
I'm glad to hear that the adium team is getting seasoned developers.
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Mark said 6:53PM on 2-25-2007
Here's hoping those dev's have video support at the top of their priority list! I love Adium, but the lack of video support is a major downpoint.
I'd consider iChat, but it's just too clunky to setup for all the IM transports that I use.
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henrrrik said 7:00PM on 2-25-2007
My wishlist for Adium:
a) H.323 and SIP support for audio/video
b) Libjingle for Google Talk voice chat.
XMeeting provides a), but it would be nice to have an all-in-one solution. Gizmo supports SIP and Jabber, but no video and there's no app with libjingle for the mac yet as far as I know (maybe som CVS build of Psi).
Using closed proprietary communication protocols is just ridiculous.
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creanium said 7:43PM on 2-25-2007
Regarding Adium and Video/Voice chat:
http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/VoiceAndVideo
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Daniel Burns said 12:03AM on 2-26-2007
Too bad. Adium is great for kids with all its quacky features, but Fire just handled business.
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Tom Boucher said 12:48AM on 2-26-2007
I started out with Fire when I first went mac but I can't remember what caused me to switch. Something I wanted/needed wasn't working right at the time and Adium fixed it. I'd forgotten all about the app.
Loved their Icon.
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Joe said 2:48AM on 2-26-2007
Adium listen up! One word: " V I D E O "
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Gabriel Radic said 4:36AM on 2-26-2007
Wait! When you say "Users switching from Fire to Adium can choose to have all of their contacts, logs, away messages, and groups transferred to the new software." do you mean... what do you mean? There is no such feature in Adium right now.
I have a few years worth of chat logs in Fre format, waiting for a way to be imported into Adium's DB, and this migration feature would be great.
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jam said 7:36AM on 2-26-2007
d*mn - I really like Fire....
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Graham Booker said 10:08AM on 2-26-2007
Gabriel,
The import is part of Adium's first run setup. Currently there is no way to initiate the import using the UI, but Evan mentioned in the forums a method to trick the importer into running:
http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?t=12163
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PiDibi said 2:50AM on 2-28-2007
Hi, Protheus is really great, but only one who could repair my crippled server contact list (because sh*t Miranda) was ICQ for MAC :) I had no success with adium, fire, protheus, icq for windows. Some added contacts was lose after each restart/quit.
I'm using Protheus now.
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