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Adium 1.0.1 is a great (and long-awaited) release for the free & open-source multiplatform chat client. The work, however, continues, and the Adium developers are politely asking for your help. First, there are a slew of items that need user feedback, and you can do that, right? Second, additional skilled devs are wanted so that some of the "cool but challenging" features on deck (video and audio chat, anyone?) can be tackled. Let's show the fine folks behind the quacking some TUAW love.

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Adium 1.0.1 is a great (and long-awaited) release for the free & open-source multiplatform chat client. The work, however, continues,...
 

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Tubby Bartles

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...

March 09 2007 at 7:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

@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

March 09 2007 at 5:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Primoz

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?

March 08 2007 at 8:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
zerock

Tubby, adium already has blocking and privacy settings.

March 08 2007 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

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. :)

March 08 2007 at 7:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
uros

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...

March 08 2007 at 6:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TC

If I had a Mac, I would totally help.

March 08 2007 at 1:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Forsythe

@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.

March 08 2007 at 1:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Antonio

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

March 08 2007 at 1:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mascker

hmmmm.

Try amsn.sf.net

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

March 08 2007 at 12:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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