Doom inquires about Trillian
 

To be breif, I was considering downloading Trillian, as I use AIM, Yahoo and MSN simultaniously anyways and it would certainly be more conveniant having them all connected as such. Before I got it, though, I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I should know in regards to things I might lose from each inidividual messenger, such as features/capablilities, font styles, away messages, profiles, prefences, buddy lists, etc. If anyone can give me some info on that, I'd appreciate it.

I used to used Trillian and I don't recommend it to anyone. If you're going for a multiple instant messenger, get Miranda, it's much better (in my opinion).

As for your question, I never used the said individual messengers, so I have no idea if you lose anything with the transfer.

Oh come on, Trillian's not that bad. Why's Miranda superior to Trillian anyway?

<I know, you explained that on the IRC channel once, but I don't remember the exact reason>

More simple, lower resource requirements, free, customizable beyond imagination. Enough?

By the way, I never said Trillian was bad, I only said I wouldn't recommend it since there is a better solution ;) If Miranda didn't exist, I'd use Trillian too.

Trillian's free too... At least its basic version. "Customizable beyond imagination" - now that sounds interesting. Maybe I should give it a try... a test drive.

Out of those three, I only used MSN before. Trillian's less eye-candy than MSN but less troublesome too - for some odd reason, I sometimes had major problems with launching MSN a few months ago. Now I can transfer files, toy with my screen name and set a buddy icon, just like in MSN - the problem is, I can have the same icon for all three messengers - but that's not a big deal for me. YIM didn't want to install on my computer and I never tried AIM before - I just created my account there when I installed Trillian.

GAIM is where it's at, dude. Plus, it's pretty fun to say.

Thank you for that terrible inconclusive post.