Anyone else upgraded to Messenger Live and able to use GAIM to login? Ever since I changed to live I can't use GAIM any more for my MSN needs :(

actually just noticed I'm not running the latest beta which apparently fixes some msn problems

edit: nope, still no love :(

Any other recommendations for minimalist open source msn clients?

last edited by trog at 13:32:28 30/Aug/06

some what

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=253&release_id=387865

I don't know what messenger live is but I just updated to the latest GAIM last night to fix a bug where logging into MSN through GAIM would crash, works perfecly now

i used to have all sorts of problems with gaim and then i uninstalled it. problems fixed.

www.miranda-im.com

I tried all the others and always end up going back, I like the no double spacing between usernames etc.

Just install the plug-ins you need and away you go.

trog,

i know several people experiencing msn problems at the moment, and they've all used MSN Live at some stage, so maybe it's an MSN thing rather than a Your PC thing.

edit: i should add, i used Live Beta when it first came out for about 3 minutes, then reverted to gain, which i've used for several months since then without issue until the problems started a few days ago and now i can't use gaim.

last edited by natslovR at 18:57:25 30/Aug/06

i use msn live with some cheaty hacks that turn all the crap off that i dont like, the adds nudges tabs ect.. works great now.

Oh I see... thats why my GAIM decided to not work anymore.

I loaded up trillian basic instead, might go grab the latest GAIM beta and try again.

Or you could just ust MSN.

So many MSN h8ters.

using msn live here with no probs

Not using MSN is all about e-peen and wank factor right?
Cause I can't fathom any other reason apart from adds and "nudges/winks" which can all be disabled.

It's performance hit issues are non existant and only exist in your head.

Loki,

No it's about reducing the number of pieces of software i have to run. Gaim lets me do MSN (for work-wankers that won't change), google chat, yahoo and something else.

All through the same wank-free interface, without having to install any special hacks or addons, to make it just like it should be, no "nudges", no ability for 3rd parties to change the nick i give them, no logs kept and many other things that i can't remember that are on by default for MSN and other clients frill-packed bloated clients aimed at the teenage girl/homosexual pretty boy market.

Gaim allows MSN and google chat? please tell me its so!

Cause I can't fathom any other reason apart from adds and "nudges/winks" which can all be disabled.

It's performance hit issues are non existant and only exist in your head. Really? Task manager says otherwise.

I installed Miranda and like it so far. Nice minimalist default interface which I dig. It uses around 1/5th the RAM of MSN which is exactly what I wanted it for.

Gaim supports MSN by default and here's the instructions for setting up googletalk: http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24073

Miranda also supports the Jabber protocol so I assume you can get it working with Google Talk as well.

Yeah that's why I use GAIM, so I can get rid of running a client each for ICQ, Google Talk and MSN, and just use one client. It does a heap of others like yahoo and s*** but I don't use yahoo so meh

thanks natslovR!

Hmm, for some reason I don't get sounds in Miranda, even though they're all switched on. My windows profile is set to not use sounds, but I wouldn't have thought that'd override an application settings?