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I've been using Snak for years, and I'm glad to see it's still getting better and better! I used to have a license and I was thinking to get a new one, so I went to the website and found out about the pledge to kiva.org. What to say... Great! I felt even more motivated to send the money, since it would be used to help those people. I totally appreciate their support to Kiva and I wish more developers would do such things!
The only thing I really would like to see is the possibility to have a DCC transfer window open "in the background", like a private message (basically, without making it the active window). Apart from this, I'm completely satisfied with the program.
By the way, the support is also very good. I remember sending info on a bug to the developer: he replied and said he'd work on it, and in the following Snak version I found the bugs had been fixed.
I did try other IRC clients, but Snak is still the best by far!
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5.2 was a bit buggy imo, but 5.2.1 is much better. The whois mesages went to the console instead of the active window, and that's now fixed. Option-return to send a message as a /me didn't work in 5.2, and that bothered me, but that's also taken care of.
I've got no other complaints, except that I'd like the channel buttons in the windows to be sorted alphabetically _and_ by network. Now the buttons appear to be in the order the channels were added to the window
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I've got a strong liking for "plain looking" programs that favor usability over garish eye candy, but that's just me. Snak isn't "sexy" but it _works_ really, really well. It's stable, efficient, well thought out and it's extremely configurable. If you don't care for the way the UI looks, there's bound to be a preference for it.
I've used Snak for _years_ and while I do try out its competitors from time to time I find it unequalled and always return.
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I started using IRC on my Mac via Homer, then Ircle
I was never happy with my Mac IRC experience until Snak came out in 96/97
I have been using it since. Best IRC app for the Mac hands down.
Well worth the cost if you IRC frequently.
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Really both the most comprehensive and the most straightforward IRC program for either Mac or Windows. It's also more expensive than any of the others ($29 vs $20), but it's been around a long time and it's updated recently.
There are just too many great freeware/cheap programs that have disappeared from the Mac world because the developers had no incentive to carry on development so I'm happy to pay for Snak. The developer seems to respond politely and promptly to mails.
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Well the application is ok. Kent responses fast on email. I feel how ever a bit fooled. When i bought this shareware application, i was impressed on the "Since the registration fee for Snak is a one-time payment" policy.
Now on universal version im supposed to buy this thing again.
Perhaps i would, If there was no implication originally that this would not cover future versions, but as far as i see the license emails and the original buy text, i was supposing a lifetime of upgrades, with was the reason on the original buy.
The 2 year upgrade period was not in standing when i bought this, instead there was "one-time payment" policy.
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Keeps geting better and better with age. Been using Snak for a long time and it has matured into adulthood with grace and style. I hope Kent keeps improving the program for many more years. It is used every day and I don't expect to replace it.
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The selection bug has annoyed me ever since version 5.0. About time it got fixed. The way the buttons glide around to make room when you drag panels is cool, cool, cool. No complaints at this point.
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Hard to find anything bad to say. It's stable and works fine. I disagree with the last poster about version 5 being difficult for longtime Snak users. The only thing was the large, old channel settings dialog that got split into the ordinary settings dialog and the management dialog. You may have gotten used to clicking in the channel topic bar as a shortcut to get to the topic and ban list. You can actually still do that but to get the management dialog, hold down option when you click the topic bar. Otherwise you'll get the ordinary settings dialog. It might be somewhere in the manual, but who reads the manual after having used the program for years.
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I have used Snak since I can't remember when. In an artful way it combines the best features of many IRC clients, most of which have come and quickly disappeared. It also adds many that are all its own making. I have no doubt that Snaks popularity will make it stay in development forever, getting better every time it's upgraded. Snak made Mac worth buying on more than one occation.
Now it seems the world is divided into those who like its efficient and unobtrusive UI and functionality and those who do not. When I first tried version 5 I didn't like the new interface but a few weeks later it has become second nature, it's now indispenible and simply feels "right". I think Snak remains absolutely sterling, unrivaled indispensible software as it always was. Needs just a little getting used to, especially if you've use older versions for a long time.
A novice might actually find Snak 5 easier to use than a longtime Snak user would.
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