Messaging Application of the Year
 

Which app do you prefer to keep in touch?

--jeremy

Irssi

I picked weechat.

I opened this thread knowing I was going to pick pidgin, but thought... hey I do like weechat. It's a real refreshing spin on the cli based IRC clients and it's on par with irssi.

But I really consider IC clients in a category all their own.

Pidgin is the best dudes

sad to say, but pidgin is still king here.

i agree that irc clients could really do with their own category... then i could be torn between erc, ii, and irssi.

i am a newer for linux
 

i am newer for linux and i kown little about linux,but i think i must take part in the activity! i think may be the Irssi is the best one i used.

Pidgin in X, irssi in terminal

To me, none of these really stand out as being the best "of the Year" so I just picked my all-time favourite, Irssi.

Telepathy / KDE telepathy need to be up there.

KDE-Telepathy has been added.

--jeremy

Since I started using Jabber/XMPP more than IRC this year, I voted for Pidgin, but for IRC weechat is a great choice.

where qutim? it works even on Nokia N9.

Messages app for Nokia N9 has replaced any of those in the list for me =)

Empathy for good integration with Gnome-Shell :)

use pidgin for IM purposes and irssi for irc ! :)

Pidgin works for me but hardly any of my friends use IM any more.

What do they use instead?

Skype, twitter, identi.ca ...

Switched to Kopete from pidgin about six months ago. Haven't looked back since!

Jitsi. Why its missing from the list? It has both voip and messaging capabilities like empathy/pidgin/etc...

Jitsi has been added.

--jeremy

I have used only pidgin, have anyone used any good alternative ??

Kopete

I switched from Pidgin to Kopete as well. No brainer if you run KDE; however, since Kopete requires many of KDE's libraries, if you are using a different DE you may want to look elsewhere.

Well it's Pidgin for me, running a close second is Kopete for it's video capability.

I know it listed in another category, but Skype also plays a role in my keeping in touch tool kit, I use it for messaging is addition to it's other features.

I use Pidgin the most.

no options such as Unix talk & write, etc., email? This list is skewed.

what about thunderbird ? or should there be a catagory for email client separately?