Adium devs need YOU

First, let me specify that Adium is my client of choice; I realize there are others, but none is as good. I even gave money. I certainly didn't mean to imply otherwise, as some of the emails are trying to convince me to switch.

My only point was that Adium is best because of the basic blocking & tackling. It's best at the little things I do every day. I certainly would like fancy features like video chat, but I would much prefer if the engineers would take a week or two and just each tackle 5 of the little feature requests/improvements than have been hanging around forever. Wouldn't it be cool to put features to a vote, actually? Just list the feature tickets and let people come say what they want as they download? Or let people vote only if they donate...

@primoz

All of our message window styles are xhtml/css/javascript/$web language. Download one from the xtras site, then ctrl+click/show package contents and dig around. http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/CreatingMessageStyles has information about the format specifically

AdiumX alredy is the best chat client on OS X... With video/audio features, who needs anything else?

No knowledge of coding OS X apps, but I could help with CSS/XHTML. what're the requirements?

Tubby, adium already has blocking and privacy settings.

Oh we also need css/xhtml folks and applescripts and people helping with user requests uros, don't let not knowing how to code stop you, it doesn't stop me. :)

I tell you: adding A/V capabilities to Adium will surely make you the No.1 multi-protocol IM client on the Mac... And the reason I (as an MSN user) use Adium instead of aMSN, is because it feels to me (maybe to other people too) like aMSN wasn't designed to be used on Mac OS X like any regular Mac app. It's a thing I've noticed with some non-Mac-native cross-platform OSS apps [wow, could that sentence have been longer?]. Anyhow, (with all due respect to the aMSN team) I think such a Mac-like app as Adium plus video-conferencing would certainly trump its competitors. Well, as an excuse for this not-too productive comment, I would help Adium if only i knew ANYTHING about coding applications...

If I had a Mac, I would totally help.

@antonio: Only 5-6 people work on Adium. A single person can do a lot.


@Tubby: Like I mentioned in the post, we just need more hands. Gaim has more devs than we do, so they can do more than we can.

@testar: We care about what users say and do hard things. aMSN is focused on just MSN, so they can tackle all of the MSN stuff without having to worry about the other protocols. If we didn't care about what users thought, we wouldn't have forums or trac.

But I'm just one man. What can I do?

hmmmm.

Try amsn.sf.net

At least they care about users opinion, and do things that are hard to do.