How'd this get started?: Co-Developer Sam Kothari: "Richard Hughes (cyreve) wrote Miranda *ICQ* but he changed things to allow other networks, a testament to the modularity (but this left problems too) Richard left without reason and no one knows
why or what he went onto do."
Why has the current team picked it up?
Robert Rainwater: "Miranda IM was small, yet powerful. I am a minimalistic person, so
idea of Miranda was perfect for me. How could I not help with development?
2) The most impressive features are the features it doesn't have. Miranda
IM doesn't try to be AIM or MSN. It tries to be small and powerful.
The most powerful feature it does have is its plugin system. Plugins
can do almost anything. In fact Miranda without plugins is just an
engine that does very little. Most of the functionality is provided by
plugins these days."
George Hazan: "Miranda is critical for my everyday business, so when I understood
that Miranda is the only
option for me on the Win32 IM market, I took a part in its
development, to make it more
functional and less buggy."
Alex Sanda: "I wasn't around during initial development, so I don't really know
- ICQ being bloatware with security risks
and no support for external plugins"
Aloya Beti: "Of course its all about huge bloated and non stability of original
icq client, I ran icq2000b under
cel333 at that time., it was very slowly, buggy. Especially when my
profile grew up to 30 MB"
Adam Strzelecki: "I love obscurity of C coding and making ppl happy with small useful software."
Sam Kothari: "I joined the project because I wanted to
write some delphi plugins and the
headers were too old to work against the latest Miranda, then there
were so many crashes and problems
I decided I needed to stay on a bit more."
What are its most impressive features?
Robert Rainwater: "The most impressive features are the features it doesn't have. Miranda
IM doesn't try to be AIM or MSN. It tries to be small and powerful.
The most powerful feature it does have is its plugin system. Plugins
can do almost anything. In fact Miranda without plugins is just an
engine that does very little. Most of the functionality is provided by
plugins these days."
Aloya Beti: "When I first ran Miranda ICQ, I thought oh my god, it's so small
and fast! and when I found the community
forums, where people can freely discuss any topics about Miranda, and
the developer at the time, cyreve
in most cases was tolerant of all our questions and requests."
Sam Kothari: "Fast to load, I've got 230+ contacts and it takes two seconds and
online within five seconds. I can use
AIM, ICQ, MSN and Jabber and only use 3.8mb and have tabbed messaging,
its plugin extendability is great."
