Trillian 3 gets beta'ish
Fri Dec 10 18:22:43 GMT 2004 Permalink
Trillian 3.0 has just updated itself to build #956. According to what I read in the CC forums
it's also moving into beta so we're probably only a month or two from a
release. Certainly the last couple of builds don't seem to have
crashed one me and 3.0 is head and shoulders better than v2 so this is
all good news.
Except, well there is one piece of bad news and that is the clunky IRC support. They've done a ground-up rewrite of the IRC plug-in (woo!) which they haven't finished (boo!) and the scuttlebut is that it won't be until a putative 3.1 release or even later (hiss!) It works, but you're back to using command line /msg's as most of the contextual options have vanished. As someone who uses IRC a lot this is sucky but I guess I'm going to have to live with it. The silver lining is that the new plugin, when finished, should put IRC support on a par with the other connection types and be a much sounder base for developing new IRC features.
Except, well there is one piece of bad news and that is the clunky IRC support. They've done a ground-up rewrite of the IRC plug-in (woo!) which they haven't finished (boo!) and the scuttlebut is that it won't be until a putative 3.1 release or even later (hiss!) It works, but you're back to using command line /msg's as most of the contextual options have vanished. As someone who uses IRC a lot this is sucky but I guess I'm going to have to live with it. The silver lining is that the new plugin, when finished, should put IRC support on a par with the other connection types and be a much sounder base for developing new IRC features.