QUOTE(alexchan76 @ Apr 22 2009, 11:53 AM)
hehehehehe, actually i am using slick & fring (which just installed yesterday) . yes .... i am aware Fring is like a middle man as mentioned by you .... but are you sure slick work different way as fring? from my understanding, slick is acting like fring only.
I'm not 100% sure, but i know to host a server that supports something what Fring does.. you need quite a large hardware investment and hosting bandwidth.. Fring does it cause they're advertising it.. and eventually when it becomes popular they WILL turn to something you need to pay for the S&S (software and service)...
Slick maybe collecting information from us too unless i get to check the TCP/IP connection if it's connecting to any server besides the Messengers server..
If you check Yahoo server setting you can actually configure the Yahoo server URL.. which make sense cause Yahoo changes thier server from time to time (lately YM dont' work i suspect the server url change again).. so having that option user can update the URL themselves.
From that i can see that Slick wants to leave all the hassle of connection to multiple msgers server to the user and the Slick software it self instead of maintining them in thier server..
So from few points i prefer to trust Slick as a safer vendor.. (also not to forget thier reputation on the Ybrowser).. ofcousre i prefer the app too .. the contact management.. the fact i can choose to connect which msgers i want (Fring connects everything you registered)... and Slick keeps History.. i like history..