06-29-2009, 12:10 PM
Just questions and suggestions for Viral that I'm sure some people besides myself would like to know.
First of all, I'd like you to state exactly what will set the messenger and browser apart from the other multiple clients. Each browser and each messenger all have some kind of downfall, and it's one that can piss you off to the max. All the core messengers like AIM, Yahoo and MSN (or Windows Live as it's called now)..they piss me off. Why? First off, MSN..it's a pretty good messenger and all WHEN IT WORKS. Seriously. For the longest time, it would have this phase where it would say it's open but never bring my buddy list up at all. And then when it is working it would randomly crash. And it will go days without working again. Yahoo's problem is pretty obvious. Lots of creepers, stupid interface, not many people use it anyway, just alot of useless crap that isn't needed and makes the messenger bigger than what it needs to be. Not only that but both voice chat and webcam on Yahoo are very horrible. AIM's deal is ..well it's AIM. There's random problems that come and go. AIM 6+ being that it screws up font formats (as in you can't see it half the time), will not direct connect, or do voice chat, and I'm not sure if this happens with 6 and up but on 5.9, the webcam "feature" will cause AIM to freeze and/or crash. My point being, I don't want the same bullshit coming from these messengers.
The 3rd party multiple client things such as Trillian, Pidgin, Digsby, and Miranda have these same problems, sometimes not as much but in different forms. With Trillian, most of its features are either useless or just do not work, such as direct connecting and that sort of thing. And it also screws up your font format and your profile. Pidgin will crash spontaneously, Digsby and Miranda both have a slight message delay and the interface on Miranda is just ridiculous and the 350+ plugins that are available for it, nobody would ever use.
But yeah, as far as suggestions for the messenger, just make shit work. That's all I ask. I'm tired of all these other messengers having the STUPIDEST problems that they won't fix. If you're going to implement a certain feature like voice chat, fucking make it work. Oh and I'd make it skinnable.
That'd be cool. But yeah, anyone else have any suggestions on this?
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And about the browser..well I already made all my points. Same thing about the browser with the messengers. Make it convenient, make it stable, don't make it a resource hog please, make it look nice with the interface, don't let it kill our bandwidth, that sort of thing. All browsers out there right now (INCLUDING FIREFOX) have problems that are a real pain to deal with. I use Flock which is basically a modified Firefox and it's got the same problems as Firefox. It's a great browser but will spontaneously freeze/crash or turn into a resource hog. I don't know why but it happens. If you think it's a deal with my computer, it's not. I've seen it happen to others too.
First of all, I'd like you to state exactly what will set the messenger and browser apart from the other multiple clients. Each browser and each messenger all have some kind of downfall, and it's one that can piss you off to the max. All the core messengers like AIM, Yahoo and MSN (or Windows Live as it's called now)..they piss me off. Why? First off, MSN..it's a pretty good messenger and all WHEN IT WORKS. Seriously. For the longest time, it would have this phase where it would say it's open but never bring my buddy list up at all. And then when it is working it would randomly crash. And it will go days without working again. Yahoo's problem is pretty obvious. Lots of creepers, stupid interface, not many people use it anyway, just alot of useless crap that isn't needed and makes the messenger bigger than what it needs to be. Not only that but both voice chat and webcam on Yahoo are very horrible. AIM's deal is ..well it's AIM. There's random problems that come and go. AIM 6+ being that it screws up font formats (as in you can't see it half the time), will not direct connect, or do voice chat, and I'm not sure if this happens with 6 and up but on 5.9, the webcam "feature" will cause AIM to freeze and/or crash. My point being, I don't want the same bullshit coming from these messengers.
The 3rd party multiple client things such as Trillian, Pidgin, Digsby, and Miranda have these same problems, sometimes not as much but in different forms. With Trillian, most of its features are either useless or just do not work, such as direct connecting and that sort of thing. And it also screws up your font format and your profile. Pidgin will crash spontaneously, Digsby and Miranda both have a slight message delay and the interface on Miranda is just ridiculous and the 350+ plugins that are available for it, nobody would ever use.
But yeah, as far as suggestions for the messenger, just make shit work. That's all I ask. I'm tired of all these other messengers having the STUPIDEST problems that they won't fix. If you're going to implement a certain feature like voice chat, fucking make it work. Oh and I'd make it skinnable.
That'd be cool. But yeah, anyone else have any suggestions on this?----------
And about the browser..well I already made all my points. Same thing about the browser with the messengers. Make it convenient, make it stable, don't make it a resource hog please, make it look nice with the interface, don't let it kill our bandwidth, that sort of thing. All browsers out there right now (INCLUDING FIREFOX) have problems that are a real pain to deal with. I use Flock which is basically a modified Firefox and it's got the same problems as Firefox. It's a great browser but will spontaneously freeze/crash or turn into a resource hog. I don't know why but it happens. If you think it's a deal with my computer, it's not. I've seen it happen to others too.
