Trillian Astra - Slowww...

[kyle_baker]

Are any other Trillian fans getting frustrated with Trillian's developmental news? I know it takes a while to develop a product and there is a load of debugging that goes on, but does anyone else feel like they could keep us updated _A LOT_ more often? I mean the Trillian Astra: Coming Soon 2006 website still says coming 2006. I'm not so sure that that is really feasible. In the blog they suggest that public tests would be out shortly, its been about 2 months by now.

I hate to see such a promising product fail because of poor management. They are not marketing it well and without updates occasionally everyone thinks they have been erased from the planet! I personally don't know if it will really be worth paying for the pro version of Astra, seeing as how they had little or no followups with Trillian 3. They have so much potential, but use so little!

I want to start a support group (or at least start a poll of who agrees/disagrees) that petitions that Trillian blog more about what is going on if they aren't going to release anything!

[MrEggsalad]

I do agree with you, I mean they made it such a big deal and all - heck I was afraid I'd have to redo a private Trillian skin I did for this guy really soon just because of the upcoming Astra, however, it's been months and I see nothing. Maybe they are trying to make sure everyone's Trillian 3 Pro accounts run out of their 1 year free upgrades then they would all have to re-order it to get Pro again. Would be mean, but heh, makes you think with all this delay doesn't it? Their last blog post was even like what August? Very odd and maybe it's just gone, hopefully not..although I see more and more people getting on things like Miranda or GAIM every day now...

[kyle_baker]

You could be right about their waiting game, but its unfortunate to see so many people swithing to other clients. Sad sad

[Stanford_2007]

I switched to Gaim and I will buy Trillian 4 Pro (If there is a Pro)..in fact I'll buy it for anyone who wants it.

Drop me an private message if you want one.

[kyle_baker]

I switched to Gaim and I will buy Trillian 4 Pro (If there is a Pro)..in fact I'll buy it for anyone who wants it.

Drop me an private message if you want one.

If you're gonna buy anyone one then you can add me to the top of the list
I'll pumped about trillian 4

cool

[Stanford_2007]

No problem

[DrBroccoli]

Checked the site lately? They have a whole movie about it, and they show almost all the features now... They even posted in their blog Friday!

http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ap/
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ap/index.php

[Google Guru]

Finally, some updates! Posted on the 11th of December was,

Originally Posted by Trillian's Blog

Our internal testing is moving along smoothly, and current plans are to open the doors to a larger testing base the first week of January. Given the rush around the office during the holiday seasons we felt it best to avoid a larger scale test when we're not 100% staffed. We are continuing to build new features and fix existing ones in the meantime.

That means that it won't be before after January for sure... does that mean they will release a beta somewhere around that time or something?

[ceruleankid]

New Trillian Builds had been pumping up every week these days. And blog updates as well.