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Fire 1.5.6 (Mac OS X)

It's official. Fire is a dead program  

The lead developer puts it bluntly on the front page at http://www.fireim.org/ We are saddened to announce that there will be no future versions of Fire. There are several reasons for this end, but the most notable is the loss of developers. Fire's development had dwindled to few developers who do not wish to continue the project alone. In addition, another major contributing factor is the fact that all but one of Fire's IM libraries is no longer in active development. [alert admin]

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Friday, February 23 2007 @ 08:58 PM PST

Fire 1.5.6 (Mac OS X)

Another abandoned program..  

If you go to the fire developers blog at http://blog.fireim.org/2006/09/25/images-lost-and-near-release/ you will find this note: I was hoping to make the announcement sooner, but fire is effectively dead, for many reasons I will not go into here. We delayed the announcement for the release of version 1.0 of Adium because it includes a nice transition path from Fire to Adium. By not announcing until this transition path was in place, we could save the users a lot of grief. As such, the formal announcement will still wait. Fire’s future is now mostly a design reference and some code for Adium’s future. BTW, two of the Fire developers (including myself) are officially members of the Adium team.” I most likely would have missed it - except I was hunting down a current beta copy for 2.0_ Is this the case ? Is this effectively what is happening ? If so - it sucks!! I’ve always viewed Adium as a lesser App than Fire_ I’vve had more stability issues with Adium as well_ I suppose I will end up doing something similar as I did when Microsoft ended production of IE for Mac and use Fire until it becomes greatly incompatible anymore before I switch to something else_ [alert admin]

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Sunday, December 31 2006 @ 08:55 PM PST

Conversation 2.14 (Mac OS X)

Used to be worthwhile. Now it's a dead program.  

Avoid. It crashes instantly every single time I open the preferences on my Intel Mac. Doesn't crash on my regular Mac, but the UI is so ..amateurish... I've tried emailing the developer but the address bounces back. This program is abandoned, and can be considered Dead. Avoid. Look at modern alternatives like Ircle, Snak, Colloquy. [alert admin]

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Thursday, December 28 2006 @ 05:12 PM PST

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