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Build 51 – March Madness

March 31, 2009 @ 11:56 am EST · Filed under Releases

We just pushed a new release (Build 51, r21152 r21307 r21316) to all users. We have gone through several alpha releases since our last major update so there are are quite a few changes. This release includes all the features, bug fixes and enhancements in Builds 46 – 51 on our Change Log.  Notable changes include:

  • Added a “Local Mode” which saves all account info on your machine and uses that if Digsby is unable to connect to our servers to synchronize preferences.  Next time Digsby is able to log in, everything is synchronized.
  • Fixed Hotmail message actions such as Delete and Mark as Read, which broke due to a protocol change
  • Yahoo Protocol now uses their load balancers for more reliable login
  • Added auto-update capability for Windows 2000 users (if you are the admin account) and fixed several bugs that prevented some users from auto-updating
  • Fixed an issue that caused buddy list data (ie: merged contacts, nicknames) to not save and made preference saving more efficient
  • Changed the default port for AIM and ICQ to 443 since it is more likely to succeed in many firewall situations

So, what’s next?  We are currently wrapping up a few projects that will dramatically reduce Digsby’s CPU usage.  We’re also improving the reliability and speed of file transfers.  These changes will be pushed out to Alpha testers over the next week or two.  Once we make sure these updates are stable, we will push them out as the next major release.

While our alpha testers help us hunt down bugs, we’re switching gears into feature mode!  We have done a lot of work to improve stability and performance over the past few months so we’re going to take some time to work on all those features you have been requesting. We will focus on the most commonly requested features but we also have some plans of our own. Let us know what you want most in the comments!

We will keep pushing to make Digsby even better and want to thank all of you for your continued feedback and support.  If you want to tell the world about the Digsby, here are some ways you can help:

  • Post the news to sites like Digg, Facebook, Reddit, or Mixx
  • Invite your friends to try Digsby via Facebook
  • Write a review of Digsby on your blog
  • Use the “ShareThis” and “Buzz” widgets below to share the news

If you experience any bugs in this release, please use “Help > Send Bug Report” in the main menu to submit a diagnostic log or email us.

Update 1 (04/01/2009 11:15am EST): We just pushed out a small patch fixing two issues.  First, a bug that was introduced that caused some users to receive an “Invalid Username” error on login.  Second, there was a small change in the Facebook API that caused the newsfeed functionality to break for some users.  This should now be fixed as well.

Update 2 (04/01/2009 2:20pm EST): One more small patch was pushed bringing the release number to 21316. This patch fixes an issue that caused “contact signed on” popups to show for all your buddies who were online at the time you sign on and affected a small portion of users. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs in this release and helped us hunt them down!

  • excellent site this blog.digsby.com rated to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor :)
  • james
    More features

    - Allow mutiple msn account login at SAME TIME
    - Different Menu/Buddy Tab for Different Accounts of gtalk, msn and stuff
  • james
    Here's one more i just noticed as i use it, There is no clear indication of whether a contact is offline AFTER u started chatting with that person in a chat box. It simply says that person has signed off and as u type more msg in, you have to check manualy in buddy list to see if that person is offline or online as no more msg or indication of that. Hope the team are looking at the comments. lol.
  • james
    One last thing, make it optional for user to UPDATE the software instead of it being automated, for one i feel it is more respectful of user choice whether they want to upgrade to a newer version. So a "Check for update" option would be nice which allow user to auto check for update every time or check every "x" days specificed by user or when user select check for updates.
  • james
    My features wish list are as follows

    - MIRC integration (why not?)
    - Ability to search for a contact if needed by typing in a optional search bar
    - Optional choice to have email address of contact display by default so i can tell who is who even when they change Screen name. Maybe one way is to have the email address display as the middle line between screen name and personal messgae of the contact.
    - Clearer indication of blocked contacts with a blocked logo or symbol. I honestly cannot tell whether i have blocked one on digsby whereas i can easily on msn because of the said logo
    - Ability to add and delete contact to various groups with a right click "send user to new/particular group" and "delete user from new/particular group", right now you have to manually add each contact to a new group which is tiresome if u got 30 of them.
    - Ability to have an contact in more than one user group when specified by user
    - Ability to send individual message to an ENTIRE particular group with them receiving it as a personal message from you useful for school or work contacts.
    - Ability to have mutiple contacts join in on the same chat for group chat, akin to creating ur own chatroom with private and public chat window would be really COOL in my opinion.

    Keep up the good work, i will be introducing digsby to friends for sure, am very happy with it after 1 month. I just hope Digsby continue to be a lightweight and user friendly app as it's already is.. Cheers.
  • nice site this blog.digsby.com nice to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor :)
  • krabe
    Please add studivz support and i will switch to Digsby.
  • Rob
    Reminder on a feature I suggested a ways back: provide a way to conduct a Twitter DM conversations with another Twitter user in a (threaded) chat window just like it was an IM session. Would be really handy and far as I know, nobody has implemented something like it...

    Rob
  • Klau
    ME GUSTA ESTE CLON MSN
  • Ivan Georgiev
    Almost all of my buddies are using Skype. So I would cry with happiness to see Skype support for Digsby! Please add Skype Support!!!
  • Sly
    John,

    Yea... i agree there should be a better option for people who want to use digsby and for whatever reason can't upgrade immediately. I'm sure they'll find a resolution to that at some point.
  • i want blogs service
  • ++Linux
  • John Sullivan
    Sly,

    That was the problem. The Download button on their site did not link to the current version. As soon as I installed, it tried to update again (which does not work in Linux).

    I did eventually find link to the most current version in a forum. This does not help the typical user nor does it help at all those who do not have administrator privileges on their machines. If Digsby is going to disallow older versions from operating, there needs to be a little more notice than *starting right now*....
  • jtsv89
    can't wait for a lower CPU usage tweak! Digsby is awesome :)
  • Chris Wyatt
    http://blog.digsby.com/archive...

    In reply to Yonah, if you're argument is that you can just use WINE then surely your argument would hold for Mac users as well who can also use WINE. So how about not bothering to release Mac and Linux versions at all because they can 'sort of' run it using WINE.
  • In my opinion, developers should add a authorization request in the context menu. Secondly, they should add a posibility to copy chat from the window "View Past Chats"
  • Sly
    hey john,

    can't you just download the correct version from the digsby site itself? Obviously, this isn't ideal... but does that fix the problem...until the next update?
  • When will it be possible to read QIP and Miranda Away Messages...
    And it´s still not possible to read the Away Messages from Digsby with QIP or Miranda...
    Greetz out of Germany...
    Eastfrisia...
  • John Chan
    Really wish offline MSN messages were enabled...

    I hate receiving messages when I'm away from my computer, then finding that person is offline and I can't even reply, and have to wait till they're online again.

    Need MSN offline!!! PLeeeeeeaaaase!
  • merci pour tout :-)
    Thanks for all :-)
  • fefe
  • John Sullivan
    YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHUT OFF AUTOUPDATE!!! THIS BREAKS THE APPLICATION FOR PEOPLE RUNNING ON LINUX UNDER WINE AND PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE PRIVILEGES ON THEIR WINDOWS MACHINE!!!

    Once again, I can't use Digsby on my Linux PC because your download link is apparently not the current version and the application is stuck in autoupdate
  • Qesuni
    mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  • Steven
    Skype support would make me very, very happy!
  • I Love You Digsby.
  • delete emails from accounts like hotmail still does not work yet - goes off the list but when you log in again, there they are - not being removed from server it seems.
  • Mastermind
    Please, can you finally fix icq user adding and authorization requests? I mean buttons authorize and ask for authorization, and also contacts which are not authorized by me or I by them can be highlithed or something like that. Also, when are you planing to add iconized icq xstatuses? And is last.fm and skype support possible? Thanx :).
  • Great site this blog.digsby.com and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor :)
  • Nate
    I, too, would really like to see the AIM side fixed up in regards to being able to bold/italicize/underline/color/highlight just the selected portions of a message, as opposed to the entire message as is currently the case. The inability to do this is frustrating.

    Also, italicized messages do not seem to appear in the actual chat window of sent and received messages, nor the logs, at all. They’re only italicized in the input area where you’re currently typing your message.

    Please fix this! Otherwise, I’m loving Digsby.
  • maxxess
    Digsby is my choice for MSN, ICQ and Yahoo. It is simply great.
    BUT.. There is always a but? Why o why can one not search chat history? Currently history is organized on a day to day basis. It is impossible to find the message you are looking for. Please make history SEARCHABLE.

    I know MSN isn't much better but I come frome Miranda and kind of got used a lot of features -- one of them was searching through history.
  • gcstang
    Really really want a chat feature for MSN and Linux
  • Wow! Thank you so much for listening! So happy I can run from a portable device now!
  • Igor
    A portable version, add-ons, support for Last.fm and vkontakte.ru (well, the last one is the most improbable, but if you enable add-ons...)
  • Paul
    Let's put some things in perspective here guys. I'm sure we'd all like to see these new and extra things such as different IM networks... group chats... little tweaks like changing the systray icon. But come on.

    No seriously. Come on. Digsby staff, let me get the disclaimer out of the way: great job, don't bite the hand that feeds me, it's free... yadda yadda.

    Anyway, since you're "shifting gears" to features... how can you add more stuff that will complicate the program when so much basic functionality is STILL missing?

    1) It's been said a thousand times: inline formatting. This is a no brainer. I would actually go so far as to say as the way it functions now, it is not only missing, it's broken. I highlight a word and press bold, and the whole message goes bold. Nobody can tell me that's "expected" behavior.

    2) No full log search. Why do I even have logs? I can't copy and paste out of them either. What good is this to me? I can browse by past history and relive conversations, one by one. How sentimental. So if I know I sent my buddy a link, I can go day by day, trying to do a "find" for it... and when I do find it, I can... open up that HTML file and get it, or retype the link all over again into my IM window. Lame.

    Direct connect, collapsing the mail section... all these added functions would be great... but if you can't search or format text... I'd say that should be a LITTLE more important.

    P.S. My yahoo avatar still shows up as a black box, to anybody on the standard Yahoo client. Still. Did I say still?
  • Zachary Love
    I would love it if we could have voice chat along with everything else, That would make Digsby THE PERFECT IM application.
  • Bradleycorn
    GROUP CHAT!!!!!!!
  • Yonah
    To hell with Linux! Digsby is great, but still needs some work before it becomes solid gold. Put all your time into the Windows version because we are the largest user group. Period. After the Windows version is mature, then consider Mac but don't bother with Linux. Let them try to run it with WINE. It probably won't work as good, but then maybe.... just maybe they will stop lying to people about how great WINE really is. Linux users are jerks. Let them get what's coming to them after years of lies and trolling.
  • Nate
    I, too, would really like to see the AIM side fixed up in regards to being able to bold/italicize/underline/color/highlight just the selected portions of a message, as opposed to the entire message as is currently the case. The inability to do this is frustrating.

    Also, italicized messages do not seem to appear in the actual chat window of sent and received messages, nor the logs, at all. They're only italicized in the input area where you're currently typing your message.

    Please fix this! Otherwise, I'm loving Digsby.
  • Shahadat Udraji
    It is really a nice software and I like Digsby very much.
  • raveconeja
    no!! i cant msn
  • utomos
    FREE HUGS
  • Rosemary
    Something I would really like to see (if possible) is a version developed for Linux. I'm currently a Windows user, but I will soon be (at least) dual booting with Linux (Ubuntu specifically) for various reasons. After an okay experience with Pidgin, which is the reason why I switched over to Digsby to try something new (and fell in love with it), I am lamenting the fact that there is no Linux equivalent of Digsby. I would be willing to use Pidgin, but I've seen Pidgin in Ubuntu and the features (or lack thereof compared to the Windows version) makes me not entirely happy about it.
  • Richard
    Great work, love Digsby!
  • Corion
    In order of preference:
    1. Group Chat
    2. Multiplatform (Mac, Linux) support
    3. Better Buddy List management (option for tabs/windows based on accounts, Digsby buddy list which doesn't effect AIM/Gtalk/ICQ/etc. account lists but contains contacts from them, etc)
    4. Features included in official clients but not yet in Digsby
    5. RSS Reader (and/or Google Reader integration somehow)
  • Lester Forbes
    If Only you guys could add an RSS feed reader, Then Digsby would be THE perfect package
  • Good news! I like digsby :)
  • Chris Wyatt
    LINUX AND MAC!
  • Features Requests:

    + Support for Skype chat
    + Better chat log history search
    + Working file transfers for AIM (most seem to time out)
    + Ability to make words bold or italic, without making the whole line that way

    I can think of many others but something tells me you've got more than enough feature requests.

    Thanks
  • Haggie
    Sametime support please!
  • Ravi
    I want the groups that I have in various accounts (like I have abt 10 groups in my Yahoo account) to be syncronised and shown as well.
  • AJ
    Awesome news guys, can't wait!
    Biggest wishes I'd like to see (please please please!)

    - Status indicator in system tray
    - Ability to HIDE IM's WHILE AWAY. this is the only thing keeping me from using Digsby on a more permanent basis.
  • I'd also like to join the chorus of voices asking pretty-please for a linux version. Hmm... You know, it's already so feature rich it's downright decadent, but if I had to suggest anything I'd either propose including support for IRC or soup.io. :D
  • Todd
    Great work, folks! I was an alpha tester and it's been working great.

    My wishes:
    Status indicator in system tray.
    Multiple user chat conversations.
  • nice digsby ! i love using digsby and i hope there is a MOBILE VERSION of digsby coming up !! ^^
  • jc7006
    Oh, i think the addition of chatrooms in Digsby would be certain death at this time for your product, to many bots and booters in chatrooms. So if you do add them be sure everyone is protected from them...
  • jc7006
    Digsby needs web cams, then i believe i would use your product. So keep improving looking good so far....
  • Hello

    I love Digsby, but just switched my day time computer from PC to MAC and I cannot use it anymore. PLEASE do not let me forget about you guys...PLEASE MAKE A MAC VERSION.

    I LOVE YOU DIGSBY. I WANT TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO YOU INTEGRATED SOCIAL CLIENT--DO NOT MAKE ME LEAVE YOU!!!
  • Gary Lee
    Really miss the ability to easily search past chats in log files the way Trillian does. Only major feature that causes me to miss Trillian as a Digsby user.

    Also, cutting and pasting blocks of text from present and past chats must be easier.

    I use IM for business - both of these are critical features, with the past-chat search ranked #1 for me.

    Thanks.
  • I want to know why every time Digsby loads now, it downloads the update EVERY TIME. Glitch there folks!
  • Sreenath Nair
    Actually one thing which is lacking in digsby and ignored by every one is the "yahoo chat rooms" of Yahoo messenger.In This Digsby Release we can only chat with friends who had already been added in our friends list.But If We want to find new friends then again we have to rely on yahoo messenger,since chat rooms are available only in It.So It would be nice if digsby integrates this feature Of "Chat Rooms" In Its Future Releases.
  • ANGERMAX
    I would like to see AIM buddy chat rooms integrated, as well as a Twitter add-on.
  • jack
    The whackiest messenger ever! i could kiss all of you brothers and sisters! Keep it up! all thumbs up for the team!
  • rtjnyoface
    I just wanted to say thanks to all the digsby folks. I can't explain how much I appreciate the work being done on this amazing piece of software all at one low price-nothing. Seems to me that this has become one of the examples of how cooperation and the desire to simply just do something for the sake of wanting to do it. I know the latest releases have adware in them (which I was able to circumvent by some means) which is needed a little bit to at least make some money. If I had an abundance of funds (or any extra really) I'd very, very gladly provide the digsby folks with some tangible means of appreciation. So, once again, thanks to all those who work or help the digsby group. :):):):):)
  • hernk
    Hopefully digsby will be rich by more emoticon
  • i have a slow connection and always its really hard to connect to Gmail.
  • hernk
    Yes, the CPU's memory consume is the main issue and hopefully next digsby will be able to make a confrence and many more.
  • George
    Awesome, but We need the linux version, these realese will be the cherry on the great cake
    many thanks and wonderfull job. :-)
  • Windows mobile would be my biggest request! Next would be Skype!
  • Erin
    Wow you guys! Every issue i was having with digsby has been addressed. Keep up the awesome work!
  • pidgezero_one
    I have been trying for months and months to get my contact info to save and have posted about it on the forums many times. Thank you so much for this fix!!! :)
  • Rohit Manglik
    koooooooolllllllll work ... keep it up
  • D.C.
    +1 Mac

    Are file transfers supposed to work? I don't think I've ever had them work properly...

    IRC/MySpace/Steam/Skype would of course be nice. And any Twitter features are quite welcome.

    Mac version I think is the obvious highest priority. :)

    Great job guys!
  • David
    Most wanted feature: chat rooms or group chat for AIM. Been waiting over a year for it. Hopefully we'll see it within the next few weeks?
  • engageent
    1.) IRC IRC IRC
    2.) Auto-away when the computer is locked/screen saver is active.
  • Jay
    it'd be nice to have a spot to enter a custom url/program to launch when clicking "Open Inbox" (or some derivative) for email accounts.
  • FRD
    i have just 2 major requests (and one small) that i really would like (and that keeps me from making digsby my only IM client):

    - Google talk file transfer! now I allways have to open the google talk client when a friend wants to send a file

    - A function to search contacts like google talk/windows live messenger: just a searchbar at the top of the contacts that shows the contact when you type his name/adres

    - and maybe a localisation support for languages (for example dutch ;) )

    I think those are my biggest requests :) but I really like digsby and I hope you keep up the good work, thx guys :)
  • Prashant Kumar, India
    :(, :|, :)
  • Prashant Kumar, India
    !! Its really amazing that yoU HavE DonE A GreaT JoB tO ImProVE this!!****I REALLY liKE It, In FACT USING thiS SOftWAre FROm LOng TIme AND I REALLY appreciate FOR THIS AND HOPE FEW SERVICE LIKE VOIP WILL BE ADDED IN FUTURE////\\\\\

    *********BEST OF LUCK FOR ALL***********
  • shadow
    Linux version please!
    Either that or remove "coming soon" on the download page. I think to most people, soon means within 3 months rather than within 2 years.
  • Stefan 93
    It took 5 minutes for Digsby to start!!! Because he was checking for updates, and for that time he downloaded about 5-6 KB.
  • I love Digsby. My one gripe is not being able to copy/paste from the chat log. Also, have urls linked from there would be awesome.

    A lot of times someone will send me a link that I need to go back to a few days later. With no copy/paste and no clickable links, I have to re-type the url letter-for-letter, which can be a disaster when it's something like http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-A...
  • VerSuS
    Nice Work!! Finally the avatar pictures works fine in the conversation windows!!

    Now, it will be nice too if you work on the File transfer system, cause it´s very poor at this time, and maybe digsby + Lastfm??

    Anyway Congratulations!
  • +1 on the better, persistent Twitter interface. If I get more than 1 Twitter at a time, I have to move my mouse over to click the left and right arrows. The whole goal is to avoid moving my hands from what they're currently working on.

    Keep up the good work.
  • Great news. I persisted using it despite some bugs bedcause I am one of the unfortunates with a Vista 64-bit that nothing works with, it seems, but I have been using Digsby despite some small, occasional and irritating bugs that mostly are ALREADY gone!

    So the fact that you have upgraded Digsby is great. I would even pay for it. That's how much I like it.
  • Schley
    DIGSBY is the BEST.

    To make it even better...

    1. add an "Always Appear Online" to the individual Stealth Settings

    2. disable Pop Up Notifications during full screen apps (games)
  • christina
    I'm rather impressed by Digsby. While there are a lot of features I'm missing (invisible and SMS through Google talk doesn't work) I still prefer Digsby over ANY chat service I've used (and yes, I've used a lot) I hope that Digsby continues to improve and starts implementing some of those features. Until then- I'm glad to say it is my favorite. (and I'm slowly converting my friends)
  • manal
    je veux Digsby en français et merci
  • Tim
    Oh yeah, and +skype support
  • Tim
    How about alternate, AIM-like smileys. I don't like that it turns the heart into a smiley. I think there's another one I don't like too...but being able to choose from like three or four sets of them would be nice.
  • Hey gripers...
    If you have a problem with Digsby, either respectfully request features or -- don't use it! Simple as that. No need for the rude comments I have seen here!

    :)

    Feature Requests:
    +1 for Mac
    and +1 for the Twitter req's like persistent window, customizable icons for multiple accts, RT, etc..

    Thanks for an awesome app!
  • Javier
    Excellent, Thanks for the release, guys!
  • James
    Mac version for sure
  • Nicole
    Please Please Please...Digsby Mobile version!
  • Jahzara
    Not duplicating contacts in different groups and the option to delete a group without deleting contacts. Also, I think there's a bug with blocking people. I've blocked several people and it didn't say it blocked them. I blocked someone on AIM and they still saw me and were able to msg me.
  • Jan
    Linux version pls!
  • Jen
    It would be nice if you could copy and paste picture files directly into chats (like you can with MS Groove).
  • James
    Would really love to have Digsby for MAC \ Linux machines.
  • patrick
    it would be great if you could tether digsby with pandora...just saying.
  • Tony
    I would also like to know when a chat feature will be available.
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