On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eric Richie wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:44 PM, George Lambrou wrote:
> 
>> -1. We shouldn't advocate things Adium's not good at.
>> 
>> Twitter support is fairly basic at the moment, and we don't want users to 
>> expect fantastic Twitter support, not get it, and then hate Adium because of 
>> it.
> 
> Devil's Advocate: Facebook is in the top grouping, and that has become 
> (arguably) one of our most problematic services based on user complaints. 
> (Even though many of them have nothing to do with Adium itself.)

I think that's different, because we are a quite good Facebook chat client.  
We're not bad at Twitter, but I'd rather keep the Twitter app open separately, 
which probably says something.

Chris wrote:
> That list is getting pretty long, maybe there's a better way to group them up 
> front other than just a straight up list? "Social Networking" for instance 
> for twitter and facebook.

In all seriousness, I do like this suggestion, at least on first blush. Here's 
a suggested reorganization:

Instant Messaging
AOL Instant Messeger
Google Talk
ICQ
Jabber (XMPP)
MSN Messenger
MobileMe
Yahoo! Messenger

Social Networking
Facebook
LiveJournal
MyspaceIM
StatusNet
Twitter

Corporate
Lotus Sametime
Novell GroupWise

Regional
Gadu-Gadu
Yahoo! Japan

Other
Bonjour
SIP / SIMPLE

-Evan



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