I feel that way about every windows and linux app, though. Adium on OS X was brilliantly designed. And if you didn't like the design, there were tons of skins for it.
Pidgin's facebook plugin doesn't seem to parse thumbs up or images, but works well enough other than that. Google hangouts/chat plugin works well, too.
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Remember when all the major IM platforms supported xmpp and you could just use pidgin/adium/trillian/your client of choice for everything at once?
That was a fantastic time...
I remember it as a bunch of applications that supported half of the standards, were buggy, and had clunky fits-none-well UX
My current situation where I need a bunch of different apps to IM different people is a big improvement compared to those dark times.
I feel that way about every windows and linux app, though. Adium on OS X was brilliantly designed. And if you didn't like the design, there were tons of skins for it.
Skinning support != user experience.
That said, Adium is one of the best designed OSS apps I've used.
Adium OTR on the other-hand had a really bad UX. So I'm happy TextSecure/Signal figured that out.
But the solution was to come up with something better, not something worse.
Pidgin's facebook plugin doesn't seem to parse thumbs up or images, but works well enough other than that. Google hangouts/chat plugin works well, too.