Comments on: Why I’m Digging Digsby

By: IM Feeds - A Tool for the RSS Power User | MakeUseOf.com

IM Feeds - A Tool for the RSS Power User | MakeUseOf.com — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:21:45 +0000

[...] every five minutes and reports any updates via the chat window in your IM client (such as Pidgin, Digsby, or [...]

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AIM Express lets you use IM without installing a client | MakeUseOf.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:06:44 +0000

[...] a regular basis I use Digsby for my cross platform IM’ing needs but when I can’t use Digsby I run this flash based [...]

By: satrio

satrio — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:24:32 +0000

i gave up on digsby since my laptop only have 256megs ram and it consume about 30-40% of it… but i’m still waiting for the next release…

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Pimp Your Digsby With Skins And Emoticons | MakeUseOf.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:53:56 +0000

[...] gave a review of Digsby on Make Use Of a couple of weeks ago and concluded that although you can expect it to still be a [...]

By: UFGrayMatter

UFGrayMatter — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:34:19 +0000

New Digsby Log Converter Website:

http://www.logconverter.com

By: Random Thoug………..Hey look a tree! | Digsby and Woopra

Random Thoug………..Hey look a tree! | Digsby and Woopra — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:42:59 +0000

[...] Pidgin and I often reference them so it was a big thing to not have. However this week the site makeuseof.com posted a blog entry on Digsby and I made a comment about the log issue. Within probably an hour I [...]

By: UFGrayMatter

UFGrayMatter — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:53:34 +0000

Hey, that’s me!

By: Laurence John

Laurence John — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:03:09 +0000

Yea it did…. when I downloaded it about a 2 months ago it kept using 40% of my RAM so I stopped using it for a while too… however that has long been fixed… so It’s worth checking out again.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:41:30 +0000

digsby dev chris here.

We don’t have a log converter, it’s true, but one of our active users made one.
see Digsby Log Converter

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:18:12 +0000

I heard about it maybe a month or so ago. Downloaded it but it seemed pretty clunky and used a lot of memory so I went back to Pidgin. I did like some of the features, I will look into in the future probably but I don’t think it was quite ready for prime-time when I tried it out.

By: Digsby - Multimessenger mit einer Prise Social Web - Nerd Supreme

Digsby - Multimessenger mit einer Prise Social Web - Nerd Supreme — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:31:17 +0000

[...] Pidgin. Miranda vor allem deshalb, da sich der Messenger schön erweitern und anpassen lässt. Bei MakeUseOf.com bin ich nun auf Digsby [...]

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:46:01 +0000

The one thing I don’t like about digsby is that you have to connect to their server in order to use it. I know that it is suppose to be a convenience that you can have all the same settings regardless of which computer you use, but I still would rather not have all my account passwords sitting there. Is this an unfounded fear? Otherwise I love the look of it though.

By: Laurence John

Laurence John — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:44:41 +0000

Yes very true… After you look closely at Digsby you will realize that there is a large amount of fairly standard messaging features that are missing… many of these have been compiled by the Digsby team here:

http://digsbies.org/site/view/rfe

Digsby will continue to improve… so if it isn’t right for you now… give a few more months, maybe a year and think you will see a big difference. At this point in time I think the developers are most involved in optimizing the application and ironing out bugs.

By: Laurence John

Laurence John — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:38:20 +0000

Well I actually agree with you somewhat… social networks can be incredibly frustrating.. setting up profiles, finding friends, wasting time with notifications etc etc. It was not until I began using two programs… Digsby and Flock… that I actually felt like I had could control all these networks.

Instead of trying to keep a handle on where everything is, whats going on, who did what you can just have everything aggregated together and just keep an eye out on whats happening. If I want to talk to someone, change my status or whatever then it can be done straight from these applications.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:54:26 +0000

I started with Trillain (became too bloated), then Miranda (stopped working for some unknown reason, despite reinstalling), then Pidgin (worked great). I tried Digsby after reading about it someplace, mostly because I read that it had Pop3/Imap and webmail notification (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL). I’ve been running Digsby ever since. I rarely run Thunderbird now, since I can open my webmail from Digsby. After setting up the messenger and mail accounts, I added my Twitter acct, so now I don’t have to run a separate program for that.

I had problems with the automatic updates because I run Digsby from a user account instead of master/admin. After signing onto master just to update a few times, I turned off “Start with Windows” option, and set up my Digsby shortcut to sign in as a different user so I could run Digsby as admin from my user acct. Now it updates fine.

All those different services having their own icons in taskbar bugged me, so I turned that off in Preferences | Accounts | Where to Show.

Since their last update, Yahoo webmail stopped working for me, although Yahoo Messenger works fine. I haven’t heard back from them after submitting a bug report. I still love Digsby, but wish my Yahoo webmail would come back.