One feature that's available right from the message window is an expanded set of emoticons. It's a trade-off between convenience and a clean interface, and while I prefer instant access, the unencumbered look may appeal more to the Mac mindset.
Even the aging AIM 4.7 for Mac client gives you formatting options right in the window, whereas iChat doesn't. Instead, you have to go into the Messaging tab in the Preferences dialog to get at them, which I find counterintuitive in an app where convenience is critical. Though you can format the font, size, and color of your text, the settings aren't as accessible as in most other IM software: They're not right in the message window. The new look partly mimics iChat's speech bubbles for conversation windows, though the bubbles don't size to your message, and they're not quite as pretty and customizable as iChat's. It's a fun but hardly mission-critical ability.
Windows Live Messenger calls it "nudge," and iChat doesn't have it. You can send files and "buzz" your friend, which just shakes your co-chatter's window around for a second or two. But one advantage it does have over the Windows YM app is that it doesn't display advertisements or the Yahoo! Messenger Insider window. Several other lesser goodies are missing as well. The Mac version lacks many of the frills found in the Windows version: It has no voice chat, no skins, no plug-ins, and no IMvironments. The new Mac client still lags quite a bit behind the Windows version of Yahoo! Messenger, which is now in version 8.1. Unfortunately, Yahoo! has four years' worth of ground to make up, which it only begins to cover in this release. Several new enhancements include tabbed conversation windows, the ability to add Windows Live Messenger contacts, a first stab at group chat, and access to Yahoo! chat rooms.
Just released as version 3.0, in a stable late beta 2, the latest software brings an updated look more consistent with the feline versions of OS X-though not quite as slick as the one you'll find in iChat. Yahoo! finally seems to be seeing the importance of the Mac's rise in the consumer PC market.
The last Yahoo! Messenger client for Mac OS was released way back in 2003. I'm not talking months, or even more than a year. This messenger has been a long time coming.
After they started deeply monetizing the product, a lot of folks found Adium for Mac, Pidgin, etc. I remember it looking so futuristic compared to AIM and other clients at the time. I remember those days! A lot of folks started with Trillian, a paid IM client with skins like WinAmp. > I remember using pidgin back in the day and it was really convenient to have every messaging app in one interface. I believe it was a port of pidgin/libpurple to cocoa/aqua (or whatever the macOS gui framework was back then).ĮU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants
> there was also some Duck app for macOS? You are thinking of Adium (). It was fast and memory friendly given that it was a native app and the themes were just small templates offering. It was built with native widgets and also incorporated chat themes that were implemented using WebKit's rendering (). I really miss Adium () which was based on Pidgin's libpurple. (or at least it has been at one point, don't know what the current status is.) XMPP continues to also work with Adium, a multi-protocol chat app that's completely customizable (visuals + sounds). XMPP is a technology, actually used by many other services such as Facebook chat. It's so old, it still has growl (old 3rd party macOS notification system before.
Is written in Objective-C, containing no Swift code whatsoever.
I love classic IM apps, and I want to give the macOS instant messaging app " Adium" a complete rejuvenation for Apple Silicon because it's last update was over 5 years ago and I've needed a good XMPP client for Mac because I've started using it.
Looks to be some custom developer dlls for Pidgin to connect to WhatsApp and Signal? People have been wanting a photo sharing app since Instagram just wants to be a tiktok clone. Or Pidgin - the chat client to manage all the others.