[IxDA Discuss] straw poll: best messaging user experience

[Peyush Agarwal]

I have use msn, yahoo, google talk, and pidgin recently.

MSN started out nice and simple, but I REALLY dislike how it's gotten over-rendered - the percentage of pure chat space has reduced against icons, toolbars, junk-bars etc.

Yahoo was too cluttered and also over-rendered.

I like GTalk because it minimizes the real estate coverage while maximizing the chat space. Very clean. Also really like that if you close one chat, others adjust to coalesce together so you don't have to keep organizing the windows.

Pidgin has the singular advantage in aggregating all the various ones in one, but it's UI needs some polish.

-Peyush