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Vote for Digsby!

ReadWriteWeb is holding a poll to see what the best IM clients are. This is a follow-up to an article they wrote about IM interoperability, in which they boldly stated:

Digsby is poised to take a serious amount from the market share of the standard clients because of its interoperability not only with IM clients, but also because of the integrated social networks and even email. It makes me wonder if maybe Digsby is poised to be the “Firefox” of instant messaging if the dominating players aren’t careful.

Please show your support by voting for us: ReadWriteWeb Poll

On another note, it has been 2.5 weeks since our last release, which is uncharacteristic of us. As the bug reports began to die off, we have bunkered down to fully optimize our codebase. The next release will bring a few significant improvements including:

  • Major reduction in RAM (memory) usage
  • Fixes for most of the memory leaks
  • A much more responsive user interface
  • Ability to connect to IM networks even if your firewall/proxy restricts that port
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  • Ducky
    For AIM why isn't there Neopets?
  • Snake- there's a test release available that's being updated regularly. You can read about it on the forums here: http://forum.digsby.com/viewto...
  • Snake
    OK, is there ANY ideas on when this program is going to likely be ready.

    I last asked for an update a month ago, & we all last heard from you 2 months ago, any chance of an update please?
  • John
    Really great app! I miss skype! When is it planned?
  • Snake
    STEVE, how's it going? When I asked you previously about the date of release, you said a week was pretty realistic, this was dated June 26th (http://blog.digsby.com/archive....

    As some1 who's done some programming in the past, I can understand that it takes time, and when bugs are found, it can extend the date of completion each time a bug gets detected. This was over 5 weeks ago, & with knowing it's a pretty big re-write being done, is there any ideas to when the release date may be?

    Thanks in advance, for an awesome app.
  • Awesome app! Definitely the best there is on the net.

    It would be nice though to see the display names (as opposed to usernames) of my YM contacts without having to rename each one of them... And please add Multiply.com functionality!
  • a.k.a.pinoy
    Good job Digsby staff!
    I hope you will add also friendster as one of your social network. thanks
  • Kamillo
    When will be a Gadu-Gadu protocol ?! we wait so long time... and nothing :(
  • Benoît
    I used to use several IM at once, since nothing existed to group them in a decent way. Then I discovered Pidgin (as it is called now) but that didn't feel like I expected. ... and now I know Digsby and my search has ended. It's just sooooo good :-)

    If I had to request a few extra things it might be to :
    * add the possible use of irc (which seems to be already in the works) :)
    * site mail check functionality, you can add any site (url, login, pass) and make it check if you got pm's or alike
    * using Digsby to create lists of items you encounter while surfing by for example adding them to a Google Notebook by using the data from the entered account + the entered list name (user+digsbylistname@gmail.com) or just to send it straight to for instance Gmail
    * a Linux (Ubuntu) version or an install through Wine guide/script

    Oh and votes + 1 :-D
  • chris jackson
    almost ready?

    cooool, hope its this week.
  • Sam
    Any plans to integrate Orkut?
  • @Chris Jackson: It's almost ready. It was a major re-architecting so new bugs were introduced as a result. We are knocking them out and as soon as it is stable we will push it out.
  • SillyHalfMexican
    Not to bug or anything, but it's been almost 3 weeks since they announced this. Not saying that they should push it out and still be buggy.
    However, they should keep us up to date; so we at least know the status of it.

    I still love Digsby and promote it everywhere I go... But the lack of status updates is making me impatient.

    Oh well.
    Long live Digsby! :)
  • chris jackson
    ok, so where is it?

    waiting........ and sick of it. :)
  • Operator
    @ Patrick: Calm down! Digsby is still Beta and Localization is planned for the future. You can use another messenger until Digsby gets a German localization or continue using the English one. It's not too hard to understand, don't you think so ;)? And yes, I'm German, too.
  • Patrick
    Why there is still no localisation? Why no German languagepack?

    You should have a look on the Firefox 3 Download Counter. Germany is on the second place after the USA.

    Many millions of Germany using original ICQ or qip, Trillian, Miranda and other Multimessengers, because they speak GERMAN. Why Digsby only speak ENGLISH? Not the whole wide world speaks english?

    Do you want several millions of new Digsby-Users, than make Digsby speak GERMAN!
  • Hi Guys - I'll vote, but I'd really love a Digsby for Linux (Ubuntu)... we use it at work and I have Windows at home, so I really only have the opportunity to used Digsby @ home and I miss it!!!!

    Any idea when a Linux version is coming out?
  • Snake
    SillyHalfMexican, Steve said within a week is quite reasonable, so unless they have any more bug issues, or coding is taking a lil bit longer than expected, hopefully sometime this week, or very early next week.

    I know we all can't wait for this, it's going to be an awesome app to use when it's finally ready.
  • SillyHalfMexican
    Sooo... When are we getting this update?
    Can't wait for it! :)
  • siyang
    Digsby is great! Good luck with the memory optomization.

    My three requests:
    1. QQ is added. Popular chinese client.
    2. Video chat natively in Digsby instead of the tokbox thing
    3. Conference chat is added.
  • Snake
    Cool, thanks Steve.

    I'll still hold off till the full release though, before installing. I've got my wireless network here, while running Digsby on my main computer, so I'm not losing out quite yet, but thanks on the potential completion timeline.

    You guys rock!!!
  • @Snake - Yup I think within a week is pretty realistic. However, you can install now and it will auto-upgrade as soon as it is pushed.
  • Ah, I see, well keep it up Digsby team, me and probably alot of other Digsby users are rooting for all of you. :)
  • Snake
    Hi Steve, I know you're all working hard on getting the Windows version finished, so you can all work on getting the MAC & Linux versions up & running. I've just got myself a new laptop, & I'm holding out from installing Digsby on the Laptop, until the full version is out. Is it going to possibly be in the next week or 3 when it's released, or are we looking at a longer deadline?

    Thanks
  • @Kid Arez - I know :) We are working hard to wrap everything up. This is a pretty large update with a lot packed in so it's takin a bit longer.
  • It's been a week and a half, from Steve's comment, shouldn't it be here about now?
  • paark.s
    This is the best IM I ever use. (I have used ICQ, MSN, Gaim, Pidgin, Trillian and few more I can't remember) The only thing the keep me from switching 100% to Digsby is Thai text will not be displayed in conversation windows.
  • Bill
    I really love what you guys have been doing with Digsby. I was wondering when/if you were going to add the option to hide windows while away. Thank you and keep up the great work!
  • @Joseph: We designed Digsby to be cross-platform from the group up but launched only the windows version so we can react to bug reports more quickly. We would rather have one solid product than three half-finished ones so instead of spreading ourselves thin with three beta launches we decided to hold back the other two. We have already started working on prepping the mac version for release and will try to get out to users as quickly as possible. Linux will follow shortly after.
  • Joseph
    With all due respect, you really oughtn't announce a Mac or Linux version "coming soon" if it isn't actually "coming soon." Digsby looks like the cat's pajamas, but at this point both Mac and Linux versions are vaporware.
  • Anthony
    Will you ever add icq extra statuses? That will be great and finaly will force people to move from miranda to digsby.
  • Oddahc
    both my FF3 page search AND your blog search missed the "portable" in the above article! Sorry all!
  • Snake
    Is there any date penned yet, as to when the new version is possibly gonna be ready to be released?
  • Chris Jackson
    hello, im also a big digsby fan.

    hiding the tray icon completely does not work for me,

    but anyway,

    'when' is this much less-ram-eater available, i hope its very soon, im ready to create a new image of my system. :)
  • I like Digsby
    And to 'star', attach files, see images etc from Gmail messages via Digsby too.
  • I like Digsby
    I like Digsby.

    I am looking forward to check my emails within Digsby, without having to launch the browser. Thank you.
  • @Gil Collins - Not a pipe dream at all. We will launch a Linux build shortly after we launch the Mac build. We are working on both right now but wanted to get the Windows build stable first so we didn't spread ourselves thin as we reacted to bugs in this initial beta release.
  • Gil Collins
    Will the Linux version ever be started or is it a pipe dream I keep having?

    I love this application but I moved to Linux months ago and haven't looked back, however I miss Digsby a lot.
  • Tried to vote in their poll but I just get a javascript error in IE 7 and Fx 3. Feckin lovely.
  • raj
    Great to know about next release. Memory usage (goes upto 90MB) is very big issue, fix will make this programme rocking.
    What do u think about adding Orkut to social network list. I have all frineds on orkut. You can think about it.
  • Abubakar Hassan Muhammad
    Hmm infact i have no comment, but believe me digsby is just the perfect IM in the whole world. Really i have no option than to vote for digsby the greatest IM, keep up the good work and peace out to all digsby crew members...
  • @TheDenverFan: Clicking the "X" on the top right corner of the buddy list will minimize it to tray. You can double click the tray icon to bring it back. You can also permanently hide it from the taskbar in Preferences > Buddy List > Show in taskbar.

    @digsbyuser: The performance issues are being tackled right now and that is what the next build will focus on. We will also release a portable version soon. There have been many requests for this.

    @Wanderer: In Preferences > Skins you can choose from many conversion themes and some show the buddy icon in the IM window
  • TheDenverFan
    I love Digsby! One improvement suggestion: Have an option to mimimize Digsby to the notification area (removing it from the taskbar area) like Yahoo provides. I tend to have so many things open at once, I would love to get it off the taskbar while leaving it active.

    Thanks!
  • digsbyuser
    I too agree that Digsby is a good all-around IM client. There are things that are on the to-do list but I'd like to see a more firmed up time line on those things rather than adding the new social-networking-site of the week support. Address the sluggishness of the app itself, the CPU hogging, the memory bloat are pretty critical core issues. Protocol issues such as MSN has been out there for a while now, as is group chat, as well as supporting specific client features like video etc. While not a requirement for most users today portability is moving up the request list as usb thumbdrives are increasing in size, and decreasing in cost...
  • Wanderer
    I just wish you'd add the features from the IM programs that we can access through you...like Yahoo! Radio, or the ability to show your pic on the IM like you can with both Y! and MSN...just to mention a couple.
  • therpham
    Here's another voice crying out for at least some news on the Linux version! I can be patient, though. All good things take time.
  • Snake
    Thanks Steve, I tried that, but there was an error with setting the status, don't know what it was, however after 3 attempts, it now works a treat.

    Thanks to all the Digsby staff for a wicked app, there aint anything around at the moment that even comes close to this app.

    Keep up the good work.
  • electr0mix
    GaduGadu support please!
  • Cereal
    LINUX! Please I need a better IM Client! Unfortunately I don't bother booting into another OS for one IM client, but I would LOVE to use it in Linux 24/7!
  • Ionikka
    i'm not speak english.! i'm from romania....! I like digsbi!
  • @Snake - mouse over the social network at the bottom of your buddy list or click the small icon in the icon tray.
  • Snake
    Hi Steve, in "My Accounts" I've added all my usual IM accounts from the various services.

    I've also added Facebook & MySpace to the Social Networks as well, where is the Newsfeed, & how do I set it?
  • Dan
    Damn, i just downloaded Digsby for the first time and running it using the AIM, Google, and Facebook plugins its consuming 142mb of RAM!!!???? Photoshop uses less RAM than this client what the hell?

    That's insane. I'll check back when RAM and memory leak issues are fixed. I'll stick with pidgin for now... :(
  • random
    I can't embed links. I can't make one word italicized. I can't use normal IRC style commands like /me. I need this sort of functionality.

    I need to be able to do these things.
  • Digsby is kickin butt! i was the 2756th vote. woo hoo! =0]
  • @Snake - changing your IM status does not set it on the Facebook website. However, if you add Facebook as a social network you will get a newsfeed and can set your Facebook status from there.
  • Snake
    I've only just posted the previous message, & now I've found another issue.

    I gather that if you set your Status Message using Digsby, it is supposed to show on the website, is that right?

    I have Digsby logged into Facebook, & Facebook Chat, ICQ, MSN & Yahoo, I can set my status message manually by the dropdown box just below the menu tabs in the main interface, or by the "Digsby/My Status/New Status Message" menu options. As far as I can tell, it is changing my Status, on all the IM Service Accounts I got logged into it, but it's not changing the status on my Facebook Profile. 3 times I've changed my status message in Digsby since last night, but no change to Facebook Profile Status Message...
  • Snake
    Steve, thanks for the info about the forthcoming API for theme design. Cool, on the mouseover thingy, makes a lil easier for the moment, to read what notifications I'm getting.

    Ummm, with regard the skins, until the API is ready, & released, is the anyway someone on the programing team would be able to tweak 1 or 2 of the skins for the next release date, or a future release date, prior to the API? If not, don't worry, just wishful thinking.

    Thanks again Steve, and the rest of the team, for a truly awesome Multi-IM / Social Network Interface, it rocks.
  • cskat
    I love the email notificating of Digsby.
    And the Skype support will make Digsby (more) one of a kind.
    (As the gtalk support and msn private and status message showing in one application made it too.)
    The clickable links in status messages, the advanced buddylist sorting, are great too. And the planned less memory using is really good news.
    You know that the users will use Digsby instead of multiple applications, or other multiaccount applications if they will get the ability to use all of their contact's application and all the ability to use their preferred features.
    My requests:

    - more skins, at least some shiny elegant darks

    - ability to see the pm of the offline msn users like in the msn
    (maybe some of them just invisible and writing out their moods or a "secret message" which means they're online for those who know that :) I hope the other services will use that too some day.

    - with that (group offline users by service, others could be hidden...there are too much contacts with the gmail service)

    -optionable buddy and self picture in the chatting window (in some sizes)

    - bigger buddy picture on mouse hoover on the buddylist pictures (pop up)
    and profile and data just on mouse hoover on the buddy's name

    - on digsby trayicon mouse hoover pop up window with logged on services and our status message(s)

    thanks for your work!
  • victor
    u guys are realy good imagin i can now open as many chat side and it shows all my buddys in other site.am so glad u guys came in my vote is all urs nice job keep the big dream going choa..................
  • jun jun
    yes i voted you of course.,.,. thanks and keep up the good work
  • @Ruben: It should run in vista x64 just fine

    @Snake: We will release an API that will let users make their own themes and upload them to a website for all to download. As for popups, we will add advanced preferences in the future to let you tweak this. If you mouse over the popup it will not disappear.
  • jun jun
    digsby rock here in my place,,,, but not very popular here in Philippines.,.,hope you can add all IM here.. like skype, hope you do it.,.,bye the way, thanks for your digsby IM.,.,
  • is vista x64 on the horizon? or is that out of question?
    R
  • Mathiepe
    The first IM I ever used was ICQ way back when I started using the internet. (Long time) Afterwards I used Windows Live Messenger because everyone in my country uses it, but I did prefer Google Talk because of it's very nice, fast and clean interface: one major problem: lacked some important features and didn't get updated (on time).

    Now with Digsby I can chat with everybody in a very cool and interface! Long live Digsby! :)

    *voted*
  • Snake
    Hi Steve, I was wondering about the updates, something that's been bugging me since I first installed it.

    The Notifications Bubble that pops up from Facebook when first logging in, it doesn't stay long enough to read, no sooner than I see the blue rectangular bubbles on the bottom left of my screen, I start to read what it says, & the bubble dissapears.

    Is there any way to edit the time length these stay, or will you be adding that function in a future update?

    Also, with regard to the Skins for Conversation Themes/Variants, I quiet like Satin & Metal Chat 2, but I'm not able to change the variants to how I'd like them to be, in either Skin.

    In Satin for example, I would like to have the Icon, the name of the friend, and the service they are on, all on the left hand side, from the pre-existing variants available for Satin, I can get 1 or 2 of the 3 where I want them, but not all 3. I'm also used to having the time-stamp beside the message as well, but that isn't so important at the moment, it's ok for now to see it at the top right of each message bubble.
  • All these updates are great, but I'm waiting for the Mac OS X version so I can toss iChat and Adium. Hurry up! :)
  • I agree with the others, if you can incorporate MySpace IM, Digsby will officially be the greatest IM app on the planet. btw I voted Digsby over at RWW yesterday, of course.
  • Andy
    Love Digsby! But it needs Skype!
  • jolli
    please... studiVZ support... thats the biggest network here in germany... please ad support...

    and whats about a digsby iPhone App ;-)

    bye bye
    JoLLi
  • Dave L
    ... Love Digsby. But still *patiently* waiting for Mac support. Starting to get a little impatient. Show the love!
  • Shawn
    I've seen the rest, but voted for the best. Digsby has all the others beat hands down. I like that someone out there created a version for the U3 drives, but an official version that didn't have to be reinstalled each time there was an update would be killer. Thanks for making connectivity so easy.
  • @all If you experience any bugs, email bugs@digsby.com and we will figure out what is going wrong and fix it right away.
  • Matthias
    Support for QQ would be really great and I guess after implementation your user numbers would skyrocket! ;-)

    And for the blog, a feature like "subscribe to comments" would be nice to keep track of your answers.
  • Yay! I blogged about digsby a while ago! I use a PC at work and a mac at home, so yay for working on a mac version. Love this software!@!!
  • Hiam
    I like Digsby but please we need emoticons like msn
  • iSRS
    @Steve - Thanks for all the updates. I know your working on it, so let me just cast my vote for a Mac version.

    With that, will it by Intel only or a Universal Binary (for those of us still on PPC)?

    Any future plans for a mobile version (iPhone/iPod touch)? And if so, via the soon to be app store or as a web app?

    Thanks for everything. Gave you a vote and have been spreading the Digsby love. (but have so much more to spread once there is a Mac version!)

    Thanks.

    ~ S
  • Agodi Okechukwu
    i want to be seeing who am chatting with
  • Chuck
    I switched to Digsby two days ago and can't keep off it! One feature I would like to see is to be able to rename contacts and groups by a select-click-hover method, similar to in windows.

    Also, bug: When renaming a group with contacts in it, a new, empty group is created instead.

    That aside, I love it!
  • Jimmy Ilenloa
    Congratulations to you all!!! You have really done a great job combining several chat clients into one. I love it especially with the facebook chat. I prefer using a desktop chat application to facebook website. Another thing that interests me about Digsby is notification. The notification system is cute.

    But there is one thing am not too pleased with. You do you use your own way of file transfer. Why not be adaptive to the chat server? What I mean is, I cannot send a file from a Digsby chat to someone using Gtalk program on same Google Chat. Perhaps you understand what I mean.

    Thank you.
  • Foday Turay
    I think you have broadened the way people can interact that I have never thought before.
    You gave me a chance to understand the world better and get to know other people better.
  • filipina_fan
    hi!kinda like your service.keep it up and looking forward for your new features.
  • Guillaumebip
    Je trouve Digsby intéressant mais il a un problème des communications vocales, sans téléphonies comme skype et oovoo.
  • Tamara
    it would be great if you could add Skype!!
  • I really love digsby. I was searching for a good messenger for a long long time, but finally I found digsby.

    Go on making this the best messenger!
  • Michael
    Linux client, I like digsby more than pidgin and want it on my ubuntu book
  • Manda
    For some reason my friend can't see me typing even though I have it set to let others know I am typing. Do you know why, could you guys fix it?
    I love Digsby 8D
  • Mohammad Ateeq
    i really love that i find Digsby, and i really enjoy it, its really easy to use, thanks any way for the Dissby creaters,
  • I like Digsby. Looking for new features. Thanks.
  • I like digsby. Looking for more features. Thanks.
  • Sean
    Support Microsoft Live Communication Server (SIP)
  • My Yahoo contacts appear only as user names. Is there any hope to see aliases for my Yahoo contacts?
  • Ranhiru
    Waiting for the next release!! I love Digsby!!! Well less memory hungry is awesome!! I hope there will be at least 1 wish granted from the wish list! From the top 3 <:-)
  • Jeremy
    Hey you guys are winning in that poll by three to one over the next highest :)

    Also can I get the ability to send multiple files or folders through file transfers? then i could finally drop aim
  • attractivo
    need support for skype.very important.
  • Quintrino
    Group chat would be great!! but i still love it just as it is.
  • Brentt
    This is great news for sure. I'm really looking forward to the resource fixes, as Digsby seems to be using quite a bit on my machine.

    I haven't gotten a chance to read through every single comment, but one feature that I want, is the ability for Digsby to start minimized. When I start my computer, the Digsby sign in window comes up and after it signs in, it shows my accounts with my friends and all. I would like a option to have all this minimized and happen in the background while my computer starts up. Sort of like how Pidgin does it, with all of that happening and just showing the normal taskbar icon.
  • Go Digsby! For overall functionality you're my favorite communications app, and I have Trillian Pro. I do keep Friendfeed and Twitter open in Prism windows on the desktop in Vista. I wish I could keep the same appearence and options in Mac and Linux. Someday soon, I hope.
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