Nice, clean, missing groups and auto-away
Chats are nice, but almost too sparse. Chat bubbles would be a nice way of differentiating speakers, or even left/right separation to easily ascertain who is speaking. Unfortunately, the view is presented as a long, scrolling list of messages. Fine, but could be better.
Huge oversight in leaving out group chats. Not enough for a huge deduction, but the lack of an "auto-away" feature is a deal-breaker. That drops the rating down to 2/5 stars. Lacking auto-away makes it very difficult to prioritize where chats are going. I will miss large sections of a conversation because messages are going to my iPad, which has been in my bag and asleep for my commute. Why? Auto-away would make this far more seamless.
Huge oversight in leaving out group chats. Not enough for a huge deduction, but the lack of an "auto-away" feature is a deal-breaker. That drops the rating down to 2/5 stars. Lacking auto-away makes it very difficult to prioritize where chats are going. I will miss large sections of a conversation because messages are going to my iPad, which has been in my bag and asleep for my commute. Why? Auto-away would make this far more seamless.
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Good app, but a few bugs to work out.
On the whole I like the app, it runs multiple chat networks, even multiple accounts on the same network (two on GTalk, anyway). Being able to group contacts by network or by organized buddy groups is handy. Being able to combine contacts into meta-contacts (one person's AIM, Skype, and GTalk all grouped together) is even handier, and this is the first iPad app I’ve seen that does that consistently.
That said, the meta-contacts have a bug where only the status of the first account in the group is shown, so I have people who are showing up as offline but their second or third meta-contact account is available. There’s no chat tabs when you have multiple conversations going at once, you swipe sideways to get from one to the next. This works until you have more than three conversations going, at which point it becomes tedious and hard to find the right conversation. There’s also no way to reorganize buddies or add groups. If someone in my Skype “Ungrouped Contacts” is supposed to be in another group, this app won’t let me fix that. When I realized today that I really needed two groups instead of one, I wasn’t able to add a group and move the buddies there. These certainly don’t make the app any less functional, they just get irritating after a bit.
That said, the meta-contacts have a bug where only the status of the first account in the group is shown, so I have people who are showing up as offline but their second or third meta-contact account is available. There’s no chat tabs when you have multiple conversations going at once, you swipe sideways to get from one to the next. This works until you have more than three conversations going, at which point it becomes tedious and hard to find the right conversation. There’s also no way to reorganize buddies or add groups. If someone in my Skype “Ungrouped Contacts” is supposed to be in another group, this app won’t let me fix that. When I realized today that I really needed two groups instead of one, I wasn’t able to add a group and move the buddies there. These certainly don’t make the app any less functional, they just get irritating after a bit.
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Gchat isn't working IOS 7.0.1
IM+ won't connect gchat account even after re authenticating and after removing and reading account. Not happy that I paid for an app that isn't working.
Delayed alerts
I'm glad to have found a replacement for eBuddy since they removed the gtalk functionality that I so desperately relied on, however I do miss one feature that they had very sorely: delayed alerts. I frequently have Adium up on my workstation and my iPhone near by and when I reply via Adium, I certainly do not want messages popping in to my Notifications screen on my iPhone and iPad. This is a real hassle and we need some kind of a solution ASAP for this.
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Unreliable, slow
The app frequently takes a long time to connect to skype. Also there is a lack of polish and updates to this app
7.9.1 was better
They killed 7.9.1 as it's crashed every time when I wanted to send a pic, so you have you download 8.1.1 which works so-so :( guess I will return back 7.9.1 where you can change the themes and wallpaper, and the interface is much friendly!
Not as good as it was
Half the time it won't log in and unreliable when it does. Sigh. Not happy
Very good.
Fantastic client for Google Talk - very stable and convenient.
My only issue with it is removal of some options from the new version - I miss the shorter notification times; I don't want to stay 'online' for 12 hours after I closed the app! (in previous version there was an option for 15 minutes and I think also for 30 minutes and 1 hour)
My only issue with it is removal of some options from the new version - I miss the shorter notification times; I don't want to stay 'online' for 12 hours after I closed the app! (in previous version there was an option for 15 minutes and I think also for 30 minutes and 1 hour)
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Useless
It is pulling money from my pocket uselessly :-(
Missing contacts
Not a TERRIBLE app - far better than the skype app - and I would give it 4 or even 5 if skype contacts didn't disappear sometimes. They're never all online like it says they are on the desktop skype app. Fishy!
