I have been using Adium for ages to to all my online chit-chat with folks who use AOL Instant Messenger, Jabber, and Yahoo Messenger (Adium supports MSN Messenger too, but I refuse to use that). Adium’s interface is vastly better than the one you get from AOL, and miles better than most of the others I have used on all platforms. Tabbed conversations, clean text only when you want that (or flashy colors if you prefer that), user programmable IM sounds (I use modified Babylon 5 and Tokyo Subway sets).
The one thing that has been very annoying about Adium is that it was really weak at initiating chat rooms. Two way conversations have always worked very well, and joining other people’s chat rooms has always worked, but initiating your own was a problem… until v1.2.5 (released April 28th, 2008). Now chats can be initiated reliably and even bookmarked, so you have semi-permanent chats available to re-start with the same invitees all the time (like your team of co-workers to coordinate server builds).
Anyway, today is a great day because of a little thing like chat rooms in Adium. Yippea!
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