Feeling chatty?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1575371]

MSN used to be my main one. Nowadays I think more people are talking to me over FB chat or Google Chat/Jabber (which hooks up to andrew@ducker.org.uk).

Comments

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

The majority of my contacts are still MSN, but that majority is decreasing, mostly to google talk, it seems.

I use Pidgin or Adium, depending on the platform I'm using at the time, so like many people here, I don't usually think about what system people are on, except that I don't have skype integrated properly yet, so I have to run that separately, which irks me :P

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I signed up for a Skype account, discovered that I couldn't use the chat functionality from inside Pidgin and dropped it. I don't actually need cheap voice calls, as my mobile comes with hundreds of minutes and my landline has free calls to other landlines.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Ah, I do need the voice calls (wife in the US and many business colleagues use it for conference calling).

And it's good at what it does, but I loathe its lack of integration. The only ways to get it into pidgin I saw were very hacky and unreliable, plus, then (of course), it doesn't actually take voice calls. Guh. Bloody proprietary protocols.

[andrewducker]

Well, with its godawful interface the only thing it has going for it is the proprietary protocols. If they were open protocols it would have about 10% of the marketshare it currently does...

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I use Trillian on PC and Meebo on Android fone so like Scott I dont care what one of the chats I'm using as long as its on one unified app.