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Fire.app Closes Shop

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 The loss of multiple key members of the development team and a reliance on legacy frameworks which were no longer being updated caused key members of the development team to reconsider their future plans and cease active development.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.

After almost 8 years in production, the open-source instant messaging application Fire has come to an end. Pre-dating even iChat, Fire was...
 

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PiDibi

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.

February 28 2007 at 2:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Graham Booker

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

February 26 2007 at 9:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jam

d*mn - I really like Fire....

February 26 2007 at 7:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gabriel Radic

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.

February 26 2007 at 4:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe

Adium listen up! One word: " V I D E O "

February 26 2007 at 2:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Boucher

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.

February 26 2007 at 12:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Burns

Too bad. Adium is great for kids with all its quacky features, but Fire just handled business.

February 26 2007 at 12:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
creanium

Regarding Adium and Video/Voice chat:

http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/VoiceAndVideo

February 25 2007 at 7:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
henrrrik

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.

February 25 2007 at 6:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

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.

February 25 2007 at 6:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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