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Miranda IM
Does anyone here use Miranda IM?
I've been looking into it and I really like a lot of what I see. I'm also really frustrated by a lot of what I see. On one hand, it is remarkably customizable - down to how many pixels contacts are indented by - but on the other hand, it is missing some very basic features, such as automatically connecting on startup. There are a TON of plugins and it's pretty much impossible, as far as I can tell, to figure out which ones are good. Miranda's support for AIM - which is the protocol I use most - seems to have some annoying issues, such as displaying URLs twice when someone sends them.
Nonetheless, I can't help but look at Miranda and see something really promising. I've liked Gaim for quite awhile, but it doesn't really "fit" in Windows. Miranda does. It is also incredibly lightweight when compared to Gaim.
I'm hoping there are some people here who use Miranda and can guide me toward some of the best plugins for it so that I can get reasonable functionality. I don't understand why Miranda doesn't seem to support rich text formatting automatically, but that's something that I'd really like to be able to add. I'd also like to add the OLD AIM smileys. I've found how to add the new ones, but not the old ones. Or, what other plugins do you think are good for Miranda? I want to like this application, but I'm running out of patience!
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