Thank you!!! I was so frustrated at having multiple chat apps I spent hours and hours around the time you were writing Miranda just trying to find one I liked. Miranda was like early Linux: ludicrously flexible configuration (and extensible!), but once you got it tweaked just right, it was hard to go back to anything different... including Trillian, which was the OSX foil to what Miranda was designed to be.

I don't know when I stopped using Miranda, but it was probably approximately when I started using Gtalk and encouraged the majority of my ICQ and AIM contacts to get Google accounts, too.