SAMSOFTWARE  My oh my. Seeing that this is the only way I can get a comment to the developer to let him know how bad this program actually is. I have tried the support forums on their website, and my posts get screened before they appear. I have tried looking for an email address to contact him, no luck there either. When is Flagship going to realize that the interface that Ventrilo is currently toting around is absolutely god-awful. You have duplicated functionality everywhere, lacking basic features such as:

Window Resizing

Window Management on-screen

Window Placement on launch and exit

As well as any sort of a hint of compliance with the apple interface guidelines. By far this is definitely the worst interface I have ever had to use. Also from what I have seen, it has never changed.

I would normally apologize for being rude and brash about this, because no developer likes to have his/her work talked down about. But frankly, your inability to actually accept that the interface design is pretty poor, or any sort of feedback on your site without having to screen it to prevent someone's opinion being heard of a designer's feelings getting hurt is unacceptable from the stance of a developer. But what am I saying. Ofcourse you must be right. I am so silly to think that someone that has been using Mac OSs for the past 16 years might have a bit of insight as to how an interface should be designed...oh no...Definitely not. No. The windows OS programmer definitely knows heaps more about the mac interface guidelines and functions than an actual OS X programmer and long-time user.

Silly Silly me.  
(Version 3.0.4)

JON55  This app would be awesome if they actually developed it to be like its Windows counterpart.  
(Version 3.0.2)

MEMPHISGEEK  No GSM? Way to screw us Mac users over.  
(Version 3.0.2)

SECTION8  oh good job, way to take forever to release a new version, with a few more relevant features and no backwards compatibility with v.2 servers. AND STILL NO GSM SUPPORT. *golfclap*  
(Version 3.0)

FOR NEXTSOFT  No GSM = Useless application. On my wow server there are actually guild which will not recruit mac users because they cannot access the vent server. (This is absolutely true.) Thanks vent. This is typical of the insult Mac users see all to often. A company releases a half hearted version of the app for mac and then site around wondering why no one uses it.  
(Version 3.0)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  New version, yet it doesn't work at all with Leopard. It wont recognize a connection to the server. The previous version did, but didn't show channels. At least it worked that well. This one is unusable.  
(Version 3.0)

WOZARDOFIZ  Just noticed that version 3.0 for the Mac is available on the Ventrilo site. Also noticed that after 2 years of waiting, the GSM codec is STILL not available for Mac. Unbelievable.  
(Version 2.3.2pr15)

SECTION8  The lack of inclusion of the GSM codec is extremely short-sighted of the developer and alienates mac users from a large number of vent servers. To release a client that has an off-chance of being completely incompatible with a server is just bad practice. If you visit their forums, the thread regarding this issue is locked, and what more, the last pertinent post was posted in 2005. Its now 2007. GET A CLUE VENTRILO.

Also, your audio settings do occasionally get erased.  
(Version 2.3.2pr15)

JAMESG  It's my duty to tell you all about the downright insulting practices used by this developer.

First and foremost, this app has problems. It will occasionally lose your audio input and output settings so you need to be constantly going back in to reset them.

Secondly and most important, the default codec for the PC version is GSM. This codec is NOT supported in the Mac version! Most PC operators will NOT switch to the Speex codec and as a result Mac users are locked out from using Ventrilo.

I made a very polite, respectful, and rational post in the Ventrilo forums about the situation, and rather than a reasonable response my post was DELETED. This has been happening to many other people as well.

Do yourself a favor and switch to Teamspeex. Maybe if you are lucky, your guild will too and you won't be locked out from communicating.

It's free but it's not worth it.  
(Version 2.3.2pr15)

DREMWKR  I use Ventrilo for WoW gaming, so my perspective is based on that experience:

It has all the features I need.

It is easy to use, esp with the interface changes.

For a prototype (Alpha?) version the price is a little high.

It just works, I have not had any problems running it.  
(Version 2.3.2pr15)