I need a replacement for AIM

I want to point out that Trillian, as great as it could be, doesn't do everything I wish it did by default.

For example: viewing people's buddy info as it was coded, rather than just text which Trillian puts it into. So, by default, you can't click links people like to put up in their info.

Also, when Direct Connected for some reason I can't just drag a pic into my chat box and send it, trillian translates this to Send File... so of course it can get annoying.

And finally, managing your buddy list can be extrodinarily difficult. I still have not found an easy way to do this within Trillian. I end up going to AIM, Yahoo Messanger, and MSN messanger to arrange and organize my buddy list.

I'm guessing a few plug-ins can fix these issues, but why do I need to go through all that nonsense?

After reading through this topic I think I'm going to try out gAIM, as I too can't use AIM without crying my eyes out as it can't keep a connection if it's life depended on it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.