Fire.app closes shop

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:56 am

Seems like Fire.app has died.

Long live the eight year old app.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/25/fire-app-closes-shop/

Simba Cub · Post by **Simba Cub** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:07 am

Oh well

Two of the devs have jumped ship to Adium though, which is no bad thing

Rich::

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:49 am

Simba Cub wrote: Two of the devs have jumped ship to Adium though, which is no bad thing

Indeed. Many of the recent file transfer and dns lookup improvements are Graham's doing.

Post by **The_Tick** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:04 am

This is something that's been in the works for months now. I'm glad that both Alan and Graham have decided to join up with us.

zerock · Post by **zerock** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:01 am

it will definitely help the community of mac im users.. and the development...
welcome on board guys..

Tipo 61 · Post by **Tipo 61** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:53 am

Fire was the first multi protocol client that I used. Sad to see it go, but I guess it will be remembered with a good memory

Definitely in the nostalgia archives

zerock · Post by **zerock** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:38 am

Tipo 61 wrote:Fire was the first multi protocol client that I used. Sad to see it go, but I guess it will be remembered with a good memory

Definitely in the nostalgia archives

it was the first for me two

namxam · Post by **namxam** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:09 pm

Oh yeah, my first one as well... damn i loved it. but at some point adium came along and i jumped on the train and never looked back. but good to see those two guys supporting adium now.

ozean · Post by **ozean** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:02 pm

I also want to extend my kudos for the Fire developers – their app changed IMing for me and I was saddened when I left Fire to start my affair with the duck.

Great, most excellent & wonderful to hear that some of the devs have joined the Adium team!

MBHockey · Post by **MBHockey** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:35 pm

It's nice to hear about the collaboration. Fire was a nice app, too.

istara · Post by **istara** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:55 am

I am very very sad about Fire, but it's encouraging that two of its developers have now moved to Adium.

I guess I will use Fire until it no longer works, then switch to Adium. I have fiddled around with the Adium settings, but so far can't get the really plain, texty effect that I like with Fire. I guess more skins/settings will come over time.

Congrats to Adium anyway for getting these two Fire people. Let's all hope for a very successful collaboration.

Post by **evands** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:36 am

istara wrote:I am very very sad about Fire, but it's encouraging that two of its developers have now moved to Adium.

I guess I will use Fire until it no longer works, then switch to Adium. I have fiddled around with the Adium settings, but so far can't get the really plain, texty effect that I like with Fire. I guess more skins/settings will come over time.

Congrats to Adium anyway for getting these two Fire people. Let's all hope for a very successful collaboration.

There are contact list and message window configurations that are even more "texty" than the default Fire look... I'd recommend starting a new thread with a screenshot of the look you're going for and seeing if some of the awesome Adium community folk can't help you configure Adium to look similarly.

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:03 am

So I assume you're going for something minimal? A short search at adiumxtras.com gave me these two:

http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=1579
http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=2263

What do you think?

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:04 pm

Welcome aboard guys, hope you have a nice stay..

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