Reviews of Miranda IM

1. 
   Blaxima

   Reviewing 0.8.1 (Jul 3, 2009)

   Well I've been using this final enough that I can say the stability issues I was having are back to normal but some of the plug-ins are broken now.
   
   This is the fatal flaw that firefox suffers from too and that is having 3rd party plug-ins. They can give some great functionality but often impact the core negatively with heavy load or crashes and incompatibility with future releases.
   
   With that said I will bump my rating back up one but not back to the 5 I normaly give it.
2. 
   Targaff

   Reviewing 0.8.1 (Jun 27, 2009)

   I know what I'll do, I'll sign up to a site about beta releases and then complain when I get updates on beta and candidate releases because I know nothing about development cycles. Yes, that won't make me look foolish in the slightest.
   
   Miranda still does the job better than its competitors. The steps that have been taken thus far to attempt to improve on its user-friendliness have not been wholly successful, but on the whole it's still Smaller (well, relative to the alternatives) and Faster. There aren't many apps out there that pack so much into a 1.5MB download.
3. 
   Blaxima

   Reviewing 0.8.1 Preview Release 5 (Jun 25, 2009)

   Blaxima
   Reviewing 0.8.0 Preview Release 8 (Jun 11, 2009)
   
   I must say that the way they have been handling version 8 is silly. They seem to be releasing 3 beta's (now RC's) a week for every couple of bug fixes. Why not wait a week or two and get the feed back needed to make fixes for a proper RC!? I mean I appreciate the fixes but updating my miranda twice a day is just silly.
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   That review really, really rings true now. Since then there have been 6 RC's and a (so called) final build. It's beginning to look like amateur hour and with each release I'm getting more problems. I've also never had it crash as many times as I am having with v8 releases. So again, I think they need to do proper testing before releasing every other day (some times twice in a day)
   
   My once 5 rating continues to drop
4. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 0.8.1 Preview Release 5 (Jun 24, 2009)

   Gotta love arrogant people like Neowhatever. I updated when MIM prompted me to... Since it AUTOMATICALLY checked for updates. After updating, POOF! All of my accounts except for ICQ went bye-bye. Nice example of semi-automated breakage.
   
   It didn't take long to find a way to crash MIM 100% of the time by simply right-clicking the status area of the main window.
   
   Obviously quality checked by a small gang of retarded monkeys.
5. 
   NEOhidra

   Reviewing 0.8.1 Preview Release 4 (Jun 23, 2009)

   Miranda IM is Smaller, Faster and Easier to use multi IM (thats what gives you the installer), but it can be turn 180 degrees with various plugins and not using the right versions are the most common cause some users like vincent326 and to think - its a junk - not knowing that 3rd party plugin they use (since 2001 sometimes is actually crashing their program). For the rest - people who actually read the release notes and the forum it works without crashing using 50 or more plugins - why is that :)

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