ICQ-client, not suffering from obesity and advertising

0xC0CAC01A2012-08-07 01:32:33

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0xC0CAC01A, 2012-08-07 01:32:33

In the old days, everyone used the native ICQ client, until it became obscenely cumbersome and advertising. Alternatives appeared, but the greedy ICQ developers periodically changed the protocol, causing QIP and even older versions of the original clients to stop working. And then I spat and did not use either one or the other. Now there is a need. Which options are worth looking into? There is an idea to use the old, not yet fattened, but still working version of the native client. Which version is the most suitable?
Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Thanks to everyone who suggested jabber and pigeon, but do they support ICQ? It's hard to get off ICQ because a lot of people sit there and don't switch to something else.

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22 answer(s)

edogs, 2012-08-07
@edogs

miranda, in the basic version it is portable and there are not even emoticons.
For convenience, you will have to manure a couple of plug-ins (they download them offline without any problems) for themselves, but this is not a problem again.

Elkaz, 2012-08-07
@Elkaz

www.pidgin.im

Genome_X, 2012-08-07
@Genome_X

rnq.ru/ Come
here, a small, very smart client, you do not need to install anything, everything is in a small archive, there is no advertising. I have been using it for a long time, as QIP began to grumble and behave inappropriately. There are no complaints.

S1ashka, 2012-08-07
@S1ashka

still sitting on the old QIP - happy (look for qip8097.exe)
at one time sat on rnq and r&q

limitium, 2012-08-07
@limitium

miranda me

Nicholas, 2012-08-07
@pnick

quitim ? Seems like a pretty good client.

amureki, 2012-08-07
@amureki

qip 8095 for windows, adium for poppy.

SerDIDG, 2012-08-07
@SerDIDG

www.trillian.im/
Convenient, reliable and beautiful messenger. Everything works out of the box and does not require configuration. There is a synchronization of accounts. Advertising, a rare visitor.

Sergey Savostin, 2012-08-07
@savostin

imo.im
There is also Skype with calls, and much more.

MyIQNegative, 2012-08-07
@MyIQNegative

go.icq.com

HEm, 2012-08-07
@HEm

QIP Infium 9044.2 I've been sitting for a long time, there are no problems

Vlad Zhivotnev, 2012-08-07
@inkvizitor68sl

Pidgin, qutim.

Megas, 2012-08-07
@Megas

It's strange that no one advised R&Q .
It seems to be the most compact and not resource-demanding client. At the same time, it is functionally not inferior to any other ICQ client.

WiZ_Ed, 2012-08-07
@WiZ_Ed

Pidgin handles ICQ quite well.
Jabber is our everything!
But IM is still not needed.

vapware, 2012-08-08
@vapware

Chrome browser + imo.im/

Dmitry Kalinin, 2012-08-07
@kal1sha

IM Client

Roman Kutenko, 2012-08-07
@Sky4eg

You can look towards Jabber clients, for example, I use code.google.com/p/vacuum-im/downloads/list under Linux, everything is super. No ads, no brakes.

Puma Thailand, 2012-08-07
@opium

Native icq client is now ad-free, doesn't crash, supports multi-connection, started to look more like miranda.
I always download on icq.com

Vsevolod, 2012-08-07
@sevka_fedoroff

Somewhere in the bowels of icq.com there is an icq lite client. Quite an adequate program, easy, nothing more. In my opinion, there is a small place for advertising below, but for some reason I have never seen advertising itself. I used it a few years ago, when the protocol was constantly stormy. Now I'm using Pidgin.

WebSpider, 2012-08-07
@WebSpider

And I like rat

Lordick, 2012-08-08
@Lordick

instant bird