Liam
Active member
So as most of you know, Windows Live Messenger could cease to exist in around 24 hours :'S *takes a moment to cry*
It will start with English-speaking countries on April 8th, and will do it country by country until April 30th...
Anyways, since MSN NSC, results convos and group chats in general are such a big part of the NSC Community, I have been searching for similar programs after realising that Skype is crap, by sending missed group chat messages for about 20 minutes, constantly, after signing on... kinda annoying xD So that's Skype's biggest drawback for me, and I won't even start mentioning Hall. Since no one is actually online right now, with it being 4:30am CET (not even Strajker wuuut? jk), I'll post one of my findings here for those who reallllly detest Skype.
Digsby:
"One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts.
Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
Rename contacts with an alias so you don't have to remember buddy names like 'giantsfan123'.
If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
The InfoBox lets you check everyone's status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
Changing your status has never been easier. just one click right on the buddy list!
Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM's. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
Log conversation history and find the information you need with our search-enabled log viewer."
Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks
Anyway, right now, I am going to do the inevitable... upgrade to Skype! woowoo!
It will start with English-speaking countries on April 8th, and will do it country by country until April 30th...
Anyways, since MSN NSC, results convos and group chats in general are such a big part of the NSC Community, I have been searching for similar programs after realising that Skype is crap, by sending missed group chat messages for about 20 minutes, constantly, after signing on... kinda annoying xD So that's Skype's biggest drawback for me, and I won't even start mentioning Hall. Since no one is actually online right now, with it being 4:30am CET (not even Strajker wuuut? jk), I'll post one of my findings here for those who reallllly detest Skype.
Digsby:
"One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts.
Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
Rename contacts with an alias so you don't have to remember buddy names like 'giantsfan123'.
If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
The InfoBox lets you check everyone's status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
Changing your status has never been easier. just one click right on the buddy list!
Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM's. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
Log conversation history and find the information you need with our search-enabled log viewer."
Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks
Anyway, right now, I am going to do the inevitable... upgrade to Skype! woowoo!
The only annoying thing is seeing duplicate contacts, e.g. someone who is online on MSN and online on Skype, using two separate accounts, but this should disappear when they merge the accounts. Another thing is that the contacts list just looks very cluttered, but if that's the only thing, then so be it 
