Comment on Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows AppsparentComments−JBReefer10yI remember it as a bunch of applications that supported half of the standards, were buggy, and had clunky fits-none-well UX−anonymoushn10yMy current situation where I need a bunch of different apps to IM different people is a big improvement compared to those dark times.−lj310yI 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.−aaronbrethorst10ySkinning support != user experience.That said, Adium is one of the best designed OSS apps I've used.−dmix10yAdium OTR on the other-hand had a really bad UX. So I'm happy TextSecure/Signal figured that out.−muddi90010yBut the solution was to come up with something better, not something worse.
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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.