Adium 1.5.11hgr5894, MSN, and OS X 10.10 Aren’t Happy
A while back, just after switching to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, I saw that Yahoo! wasn't at all happy with Adium. It simply wasn't connecting. Thankfully, there was a known fix in the works, and it didn't take long for someone to build a version and post it online. Soon after that, the Adium developers posted a similar update to their Nightly Builds, and I picked that up to be a little safer.
I have to admit that I'm a little surprised that it took so long, but I was willing to let it go - Adium has been a really great Open Source tool for me over the years, and it's certainly possible that they just got caught up in other things, and didn't have time to make the release.
Now we're in a slightly different situation, and there's a problem with MSN Live:
The story is that MSN has changed the accpetable API ids and the one that Adium and libpurple is using is not on the "approved" list. There is another in libpurple now, but the Adium team hasn't picked it up, or hasn't integrated it, or hasn't released it. In any case, it's stalled. Badly.
Now I'm not a big MSN IM user, but it's there, and it's simple to fix, and it's ready to go, so let's get to it, guys. Or let's make it clear that there are no developers to support this, in which case, I'll pick up the mantle, and just do the things that I think need to be done to keep it moving forward.
My fear about this is that the codebase is in horrible shape, and it's hours and hours to figure out anything, and then it's horrible to build, etc. There's also the Colloquy concern - it stopped updating, and then Textual picked up the banner, and I bought that app off the App Store. If someone looks at the sad state of Adium, I see them coming to the same conclusion and making a paid multi-protocol IM client.