Trillian
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 15, 2025first mention
Apr 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“We need a modern Trillian or Pidgin that just connects to and talks to everything”
“you could use 3rd party apps like Trillian and Pidgin instead of the official clients”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 4
“configuring trillian reading irc out loud”
In the 90s and early 2000s, my MSN (personal chats with people I knew IRL), Yahoo Chat (chats with people I met in Yahoo Games), ICQ (strangers all over the world) all were different personas and server different purposes. And yet using those different chat services would have been unimaginable if it wasn’t for Trillian and then later Adium when I moved to a Mac. Combining them into a single app with a singular UI, t
“We need a modern Trillian or Pidgin that just connects to and talks to everything”
“you could use 3rd party apps like Trillian and Pidgin instead of the official clients”