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omg.. good work, guy

well done, bro

Why is this update a beta of a beta program?

I'm not a "hard-core" user like most people posting here, but I wanted to add that I LOVE Digsby, I tell everyone I know about it and I thought the current version was just fine. :)

I do dislike the graphic emotes though. Plus, I was amazed that I got an immediate email response to a problem I was having.

Class.

:)

@medj + Tim: Or we can just release it for testing.

http://blog.digsby.com/archives/47

I can't wait for this new build. I am expecting a lot from it in terms of performance. The only thing I always wished was that I could webcam/voice chat with my msn contacts through digsby.

It would be nice if everyone interested in the testing release you're talking could sign up by email now and be notified of its release instead of having to check the blog everyday.

What's taking so long? I have to shut down digsby every night and start it back up in the morning because of mem leaks...

lol *twiddling thumbs* until the build comes out. Tired of Pidgin.

@n: We are down to just a few crash causing bugs that are blocking the release. We're trying to resolve them as quickly as possible and then we will post the new build on the blog and forums to have some people test it before it is pushed to everyone.

@Karim: It is much more responsive in the new build.

@Arc: Offline messages are implemented. If you have issues email bugs@digsby.com. Voice clips will be added in the future as well.

@lealwai: I think it will only come up when you hit "Ctrl + F"

another week.. \--/ an aprox date would be nice so we dont have to check the blog errrr daily.... :)

Awesome features, but the chat seems to lag a lot while typing on my system. please fix that. thanks.

Quad core
4gb
gtx 280
vista 64

Is offline messages and voice clips underway too?

@ Steve

Regarding the search feature, can you please not add the search box into the window, or at least add it as an optional menu feature. I prefer the buddy list window minimalistic as it is.

just another idea, but is it maybe possible to show the menu-bar(when hidden) by pressing the alt-button?

@Joel: Yes, that is on the to-do list.

@Indigo + Jen: Yes, images in AIM profiles are not supported yet but we have a ticket in our system to add this.

@Mike + Andrew: It's hard to give an exact date. We are pushing hard to get the Windows build more stable so we can prep the mac build for launch.

@Sawan: No plans for a firefox extention. The new build is almost ready. We will ask users to test it shortly before it is pushed to everyone. Keep an eye on the blog.

@Joel

Steve said it is in their to-do list. But right now their to-do list must be massive so I wouldn't count on it coming any time soon, much less any feature-related update. They're concentrating on bugs and performance right now.

I sorry I don't have time to read through the entire log to see if it has been brought up before, but are there any chances of getting better notification customization so that I can get notified only when certain contacts come online or certain email accounts have new mail?

@Jen - I get the same thing. I think it's because images aren't supported yet?

Also - I read above a mention of iCal. Are there plans to add iCal to Digsby Mac?

Hey. Not trying to be a pain but all us Mac users are really excited. We want a timeline. Got anything for us?

Any more info on the MSN http connection method? I still have to keep pidgin and digsby both running, just because I need MSN at work, and digsby doesn't support this feature.

There's one more thing I would like to ask. Will there be any official Firefox addon version of Digsby or web app like Meebo and eBuddy?

I think I did a mistake in the previous comment. Digsby is not just an IM. It is more than that.

Hello. I'm a newbie. There's an addon for Windows Live Messenger named Messenger Plus! Live and almost all of my contacts on WLM use it.

I just want to know if addon community support will be available for the next release of Digsby. This way, I could customize my favorite IM (Digsby) just like we do for Firefox, and make it support Messenger Plus! scripts and codes. And also, you can make Digsby with a minimum of features, which of course will drastically make it very light (and really portable), and let the 'community' write their own 'not really useful' features for you.

Thanks for replying and sorry for my bad English.

And btw Steve, how long, approximately, do you think should we wait for the next release from now?

I'm not sure if this is just me, but on Aim profiles (when you hover over someone's sn and a little profile box on the left displays) it doesn't show the image. It shows a rectangle and then there's a crack in the middle. I'm not talking about the icon but like the Aim profile where you can put in pictures. Sorry if this is confusing... is anyone else having this error (or whatever it should be called) or is it maybe because of the Digsby theme/skin I use?

Are you guys going to do more advertising around campus at RIT?

It was cool to randomly get stickers in our mailboxes and see posters for Digsby around campus. I have a stack of stickers that I got from friends sitting on my dresser still haha

Hey just something that did not appear in the progress report that i am wondering about how is the mac version coming along? are we looking at a release soon or is that farther down the line?

I'm curious as if you guys have had a surge of downloads lately. One of the cast of The Guild/Dr Horrible (Felicia Day) has plugged you guys a couple of times I've noticed lately.

Keep up the good work, can't wait for the new version. The ram issue was too painful for me to work with at the time, but it looks very promising. Adium might actually have some competition if you guys release a mac client.

@Vikingdread - Yes it will!

@kyleabaker - This was caused by a change in the Hotmail protocol. This is now fixed and will be pushed in the next update. We usually push fixes like this same day but have been trying to wrap up the new build. As for RAM, the leaks have been plugged so you will not see it increase from 75MB to 100MB+ over time. It is now much lower.

@zuard - We will add Skype in the future

@MisterMooth - it does automatically reconnect. There is a bug that caused MSN to not reconnect but that is now fixed and will be pushed in the next update

@Drew - It is pretty high up on the feature list but we are trying to get the bugs/performance resolved first.

@EMH - Add Facebook as a social network and it will check for notifications and give you a newsfeed.

Will the next release support MSN over HTTP? I'd like to use Digsby, but for now I have to stick with Pidgin because I cannot connect to MSN behind my company's firewall.

Can't wait for the performance updates, but currently I'm having trouble with MSN/Hotmail. From the tray icon it says that I have 1 unread message, but clicking the icon opens the list saying "No previews" so I'm unable to mark read or delete from Digsby now. I rarely use Hotmail anyways, but it is nice when this feature is working properly so that I don't have to log-in manually each time to clean out the junk.

After just now opening Digsby (about 5 minutes now), it is taking ~75mb...but like you said in the blog post...we are definitely seeing the memory consumption steadily increase. Thanks, and I hope the next build comes soon!

I agreed with you

combined with skype and ical support digsby will be unstoppable

I would like better "reconnecting" support. I'm on dialup, so I'm always disconnecting from the internet. I would like Digsby to automatically reconnect when I go back online. I know Pidgin does this, so it's definitely possible.

for those of you mentioning copy and pasting conversations -
just use the past chat browser.

it's only one (two?) clicks away.

i realize you have already commented on this but how high a priority is Group Chat? i really love your app however my company uses IMing like crazy, esp group chat. the lack thereof is a huge problem for me and i'd hate to switch back to trillian just for that function.

other than that i freakin love the work you have done!

I will love it if Digsby:
- Allow file send/receive for Google Talk
- Loads the name I've set in Gmail for my Google Talk contact instead of giving the nickname my contacts set for themselves (it is a pain to rename again in Digsby! Everytime there is a new contact I have to rename both in Digsby and Gmail)
- Mixi (Japanese SNS) support
- Tumblr support

its unbelievable how people are impatient :-(

hey its a free software and developers are working. even when they make holidays (hint hint), its the decision of them, and not the users wish which counts.
so please patience and never forget: patience is good for karma.

go digsby, go :-)
i only start rarely trillian astra (legal!!) to see what changed but since i used digsby, i am falling in love with it ;-)
great work! and thanks a lot!

WOW!!!i have so many messages that this is wat..my 100th message because my mates are like on it..but..thtas not i was going to say....

i think people should let kids do there own thing on this website and not leting parents controling them.

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I think it would be great if it could check for Facebook notifications. As of now I have to check the website for notifications.

@dewey - We were planning on doing that actually. We will provide instructions in a blog post and the forums when it is almost ready so you guys can help us find the rest of the bugs before we push it to everyone.

@Tim - We posted an ETA early on in the redesign but it turned out to be a much larger project than we anticipated. That is we we put up this blog post explaining the lateness and did not provide an ETA in the post.

@Nick - Right click on the conversation area and hide the formatting bar + actions bar. The "Smooth Separate Lines" conversation theme is also pretty minimalist.

@Umiss - You can just start typing someone's name. A lot of people don't realize this since it is not obvious so we will add a search box.

Hey, i got an idea! why don't you release the new version with bugs, but don't make digsby automatically update to it. Just put it on the website. So those of us who are eager for it can have it now, while the rest of us can use the old less buggier version.

@Chris

It's true. This wouldn't be as irritating if there was a more accurate ETA.

Progress updates are nice, and we're grateful for this post. But with all do respect, please--for the sake of us who take your word for it and check regularly--don't post an ETA unless it is an honest and accurate one.

@Randy

thank you for your post, did you amuse yourself?

....im glad you did with someone. ;)


i certainly do not keep clicking refresh and checking this blog, i just find it stupid to mention a version that is soooo down the pipeline, and give comments like soon, and next week etc when it clearly isnt.

im only waiting for this release, due to the ram usage problem, and im waiting... because my system is in dire need for an image-backup, and i just have to keep putting it off, waiting...


--
chris

i don't know if it's skin based but is it possible to have a send button in de conversation windows?

Can we please add a new, slimmer chat interface? The current ones are very bloated and take up too much space.

@Steve

I believe it happens in Vista if you don't have windows aero enabled? I only noticed it really after a fresh install of vista, and I believe before I ran the windows experience index (which enables aero).

Try a fresh install of vista, followed by digsby, without running the windows experience index... or try running it without the vid card drivers installed or vice versa.

@chris jackson, perhaps you need to find something else to do if you are bored of hitting the refresh button on the download page ;-) Digsby is a communication client, Your life should not revolve around the next release of Digsby lol

Hi Steve

Can we expect a release in July end or in August first week?

Hey! I'm new to digsby and I really like it! It has tons of functions making thing so much easy for one. However, I miss that one cannot search in the contact list, as it might be difficult when there is lots of them :)

Otherwise really well made client!

I can't seem to find any information on how Digsby is going to create any revenue, will it become a charged service at some point?

@chris jackson - the reason we did is because users have gotten accustomed to new versions on a weekly basis. A lot of people were inquiring because it had been weeks without a new release and that is very unlike us. The reason we posted this is to let everyone know why it was taking so much longer and what we have in store. We like to keep everyone in the loop.

i strongly disagree,

ive been waiting and checking for this release for ages now, and im getting quite bored.

digsby should not have even mentioned this version and that it would be 'soon' if it wasnt going to be.... which is the case.

@Hagata: I don't think setting a deadline would be a good idea, I'd rather they release the build when they're sure it's up to their standards.

@Steve: Loving Digsby so far. Some thoughts:
- I see the memory leaks, but for me it isn't so much of an issue.
- Love the fact that you keep a blog. From a user's POV it's really reassuring to hear from the developers rather than waiting for a new version to suddenly pop up.
- There is only one feature missing that keeps me from closing Firefox, and that's Google Reader integration. I don't think making Digsby a full RSS reader/manager is a good idea, at least for the moment, but a notifier (just number of unread elements and perhaps a list of the titles) would be very very welcome. I remember reading that there is no official API, though, so that might be a bit hard.

Keep it up!

@Steve: How close? :D ;) End of the week? ;)

@Indigo - thanks! I can't believe it went unnoticed this long :)

@Operator - we're getting very close.

@timmbo - exactly. 2 months isn't bad :)

@Bradleycorn - really? We'll keep an eye out to make sure there aren't any bugs in the comments portion of the blog.

@EMH - Both good suggestions. If you have any more shoot us an email at features@digsby.com

@shai - Make sure you aren't hitting the "Enter" key when asked "Are you sure?" - that defaults to "No"

@Indigo - We will add per-character formatting in the future. We had some bugs with it and launched with only per-message formatting.

@Allan - Certainly. Copy + paste in the IM window isn't that great right now.

I just thought I'd let you know that "reconnect" is spelled wrong in Preferences > General & Profile under General Options. It says "If connection to IM service is lost, automatically attempt to reconnnect." :)

@ rainer: Talking about pirated version in a public place isn't very clever, is it? ;)

If you don't want to pay for Trillian, then use another free instant messenger, like Digsby (which you use now), Miranda IM, Pidgin, QIP and so on.


@ Digsby Developers: Please hurry up with the new update! Sorry for rushing you, but I can't wait any longer. But see it this way: This means only that I am really, really interested in your software! I used Miranda IM for years now, but since I've tried Digsby, I don't use it anymore, even though it has some things that Miranda can do better. Keep it up!

haven't started up my pirated version of trillian astra ever since i started up digsby for the first time. awesome app! keep up the great work!

doing a complete overhaul and recode the core isn't fast and easy. trillian took 6+ months.

My comment got deleted?

hey i just have a few suggestions.

1. Make the new message notification more noticeable in the chat window. Instead of just changing the text color maybe change the icon to a "New Message" icon, maybe similar to Adium for Mac?

2. In the settings allow the tabs to be moved to the sides or the bottom.

deleting contacts in hotmail doesnt work, had to sign into windows live messenger to delete contact then back into digsby, guess what, contact was still in online list when i got back to digsby!

16 days since last blog update!

yep, what happened to 'a week or so' ?

isnt it over a month now?

getting tired of waiting and checking this blog, HOPING for some information to a release.

the ram usage is the only thing that i need this new release for, as at the moment.... sometimes, mine goes higher than 100mb, and im kinda hoping for 10-20mb at the most for an IM program.

Heh, I'm excited for the new build as it means it's getting ever closer to the point where you'll be able to add IRC Support, and I can finally stop using X-Chat2. ;P (Not that I don't <3 X-Chat2, but if I can limit the amount of programs I have running, all the better eh? ;P ) Congrats on the Awesome app, and thanks guys for putting so much work into it. :D

Would it be possible to view and add images in AIM profiles?
Also, can you stop Digsby from changing my settings in firefox?!

@Tim, me too.

@Spyros.G

I've been checking this blog every day for the past month in hopes that it would be nearing the end of the "a week or so" time frame. :(

Oh PS, Skype is good too :D

I'm loving Digsby :)

A few things though - I like the idea of portability and a lower CPU usage. Also, when I try to edit my AIM profile, how come I'm only allowed to use one font size and one font type? It'd be nice it was editable like it is on AIM. And is it possible to send folders and not just individual files?

This is a great program!

I'm checking this blog about 10 times a day for an update to be posted...Oh come on! stop teasing us and give us an update already!

It's nice to see progress updates. Keep up the good work; really looking forward to reduced RAM usage. (And group chat?) :)

is there a way to check for updates inside the preferences dialogue box?

I'm looking forward to these performance fixes!

On a side note, is it possible for copying conversations on the Smooth Operator skin to be a little nicer? Timestamps get their own line, which makes it difficult to read. At the very least, put timestamps on the same line as text, or don't even copy that entire column.

As soon as possible. We are pushing to get the rest of the bugs fixed so we can release. We are as eager as you are :)

Hey there !
Thanks for the product ! Thanks for the support !

If you need some beta testers ;) I'm willing to do it !

Digsby rocks !

Ant1 ;)

wot. emeel.

Hi, great app :)
Like others I'm on win2k and I'd like to see solved the update problem though.
And any chance of adding Yahoo Music/Tumblr support & Y-messenger like features?
I can wait, though - you're already doing a GREAT work :)

yes when?! ram usage is killing my computer at work :(

When?!?

When?!

new version..? when?

@qial - it should just work. If you have trouble email bugs@digsby.com

Is there some proper support for aim blast that I'm missing? Would really like a better interface for it

Mac support FTW!!!
Pleeeeaaase work on it. I'm dying to use Digsby.

Tabs on the bottom as an option please :)

An update like this would be much appreciated. I always am annoyed when the IM windows takes 4-8 seconds to pop up on a quad core setup.

I think its time for an update, even if its not software, a new blog post is in place just to make sure our RSS feeds are still working ;)

Thanks for the info. One other recommendation though, could you make an app for both windows mobile and the iphone?

I would like to see sametime support as well!

Trillian just released an irc plugin for astra and added facebook integration. I hope you have some more surprises guys to show them up!

Hello I would like to know where Sametime support is in the development cycle? It seems this is is a very popular protocol, why have we not seen it included yet? Thanks you.

@Alexis - We do that :) If you go idle, you will see popups you missed when you move your mouse for email and social network updates.

Great work guys, even the current version is so good that I haven't even considered going back to all the rest of the IM clients that I used to run.

My personal request would be an option to have my profile picture show up on the main window, along with my name. I like to see what other people see and when I used Windows Live Messenger I would regularly switch through pictures.

The other thing would be postponing notifications (at least the email ones) when I'm AFK. Google Talk does that, and shows them all as soon as I come back and shake the mouse. It's pretty simple but amazingly useful as it means you won't miss anything and you're back in the loop immediately after a break.

Again, thank you guys. I would gladly pay for this client.

@Patrick - If you click Help > About Digsby it will tell you what release you are running. Digsby will automatically update when a new release is pushed. As for language, we will be releasing international versions in the near future.

Why Digsby has no Update Function?
Why I can't see if there is an Update for Digsby, the Downloads on the Website hase no Build-ID and no Version-Number.
Why Digsby only speak English, why no French, Spanish, German?

just now download the software..very excited to use it the first time. will add review in couple of days.

@Lane
Since Digsby is written in Python and Apple doesn't allow Python to run on iPhone, I think there's not a lot of chance...

Maybe you'll have more luck trying to convince the Adium guys to do it.

I first off would like to say Digsby is my favorite IM program ever. I was wondering if you had any FUTURE plans (b/c I know you're working hard on the RAM issue) to make a client for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Digsby FTW!

The lack of this sort of update is exactly why I started hating Cerulean Studios (and is why I've switched to Digsby). Please keep this up - you'll wind up with more and more happy users.

I really would like to see some kind of encryption available either off the record or some built in one like trillian does. If you choose OTR support that would be perfect but a custom built in one is fine because most of my friends have been talked into using digsby by me haha

Thanks for a great app!!!

great app!
i love it and i tell about it to my friends :D every time there is a opportunity
i hope you stay - freeware :P

Would you say it'd be ready this week?

is this low-ram version arriving soon?

also, do digsby have plans to use the SDK and create an iPhone version?

i notice people like AIM, myspace,twitter and facebook already have their applications on there.

apparently, people are creating the applications in just 2-4 weeks, as the SDK is easy apparently.

Can you have an option to show Nickname or First,Last Name instead of Yahoo ID? (There's such option in Yahoo Messenger, which I'm used to) Thanks.

I love this software. I love it just for the simplicity alone.
I would love to get rid of google talk and msn to use Digsby. The only thing that stops me is the fact that the video/audio doesn't seem to work that well. Will this be fixed so in future versions I can talk to msn friends on cam or on mic.

Hi, Is there any page that have the roadmap of digsby progress? like when is the next release and targetting what feature to have in the coming release.
thanks

Would love to see support for OSX.

Would also love to see support for OTR (off-the-record) which allows for secure communications.

Keep up the great work.

another cool stuff will be to let digsby recognize colored nickname (like the msn plus feature for windows live messenger)

good work guys

I just wanted to thank you guys for creating such a useful app. I am also a recent convert from AIM after I saw my roommate use it. It looks clean and best of all no annoying ads like AIM! I didn't even notice the RAM usage since I have 2gb of it anyway >:D It's great to know that you guys are working diligently on this project. I'm looking forward to the upcoming major update. Keep up the good and hard work! b(^_^)d

@chipit - Shouldn't be a problem. Just add both to the email accounts list in Preferences > Accounts. If you have trouble, email bugs@digsby.com

Great project you guys have going, Digsby is one great web application that I have come accross in over eight years of web lifestyle, a brilliant idea it is, great architectural framework, with promising improvements, especially integration capabilities with facebook, this is something real different and that is what makes digsby work I believe.

For the coming updates, look forward to great new user experience. Kudos to all the guys behind the scenes doing the architectural designs and the development team too.

Just wondering if it is possible to access two yahoo mail accounts at the same time with Digsby. Its one aspect now I still have a problem with while using Digsby and rweally cool if you guys add a some documentation or help to workthrough.

Hi,

Something that you probably didn't notice:
Right to left language support:
1. When the nickname of the person you are talking with is written in rtl language like hebrew, all the conversation is messed up.

2. Make the conversation the option to be right to left. (not the current message that I want to send, the whole conversation)

Thanks!

Awesome app guys... this will take the IM/Social Network scene by storm. One size fits all!

On RAM usage:

If I'm not running Digsby, Here's what I run.

Gmail Notifier
Twhirl
Windows Live Mail
Pidgin

That's a lot more resources being used to accomplish what I get done in Digsby. 150mb of RAM, no problem :)

would be great to see the mac version sometime soon too..

I love the client, I'd love it even more to see it support IRC eventually.

@Hyndsy - microblogging is sites like Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, etc.

@Chris Winter - email bugs@digsby.com and we will help you out

@ajskhan + Monroe + John - we put all our efforts toward optimization. We will certainly be adding group chat support!

@ticeboyler - Trac for project management. Since we develop in Python, Agile just fits right in. We run the dev version all day internally so every commit is an iteration :)

@Anthony - gotcha. We will be adding that in the future but it is on the lower end of the priority list since very few people have requested it.

@Hyndsy - there is a preference to disable that. Preferences > Conversations > New conversations take focus.

How about this for a feature suggestion:

Currently I can only view "new" gmail items. Is it possible to create a view for gmail that displays ALL items in my gmail (with the possibility to search through mail).

I use gmail as a quick way of seeing whats new in my inbox as i prefer not to keep gmail open all day long in a tab.

Maybe add a link next to "Inbox, Compose" that says "Older Items"...?

Weak. I was hoping Group Chat would be included in the "enhancements" in this release. It's been "near the top of the todo list" forever. Sigh ... guess I won't be using digsby yet.

Great app. Just wondering, as I'm a developer on a small team, are you guys using Agile and if so, Scrum or XP or what? Also, what do you use for your project management software.

Keep up the great work. I'm sure you guys know, but you got plugged on Windows Weekly podcast last week. Well deserved!

@Steve - I know, but I mean custom iconized statuses avaliable on icq 5.1, now avaliable in qip or miranda.

I love Digsby. I'm proud to have been one of the first beta testers and am always happy to promote it everywhere and to all my tech buddies.

A couple questions:

-Will there ever be a mobile version?

-I'm not sure if it happens all the time, if it's designed that way or what, but many times I have a conversation or two open but minimized. If someone new IMs me, it maximizes the screen. Again, not sure if it was designed that way or not, but something I'd like to either be able to change myself or have it just blink in the tray.

-You mentioned microblogging - will that include LiveJournal, Typepad, Blogger, etc., add-ons or am I thinking something different?

Again, I love Digsby, keep up the amazing work. I've totally uninstalled all of my other IM clients and am converted :)

I love Digsby and have a ton of RAM at work so have never seen a problem, tho I am DYING for the linux version so I can finally bear to use MSN on my (Ubuntu) computer at home!!! Any news on when that release is coming? :D

I really hope MSN/ICQ etc. get multi-user/group chats. Right now, I always have to ask people to invite me into their group chat, and that works (I can see other people talking, and talk to them in the group chat), but I cannot make my own.

Only other thing... the RAM usage... but you guys are on top of that, as usual :-)

Hope you guys make that option to allow Windows 2000 or other OS versions that the auto-update doesn't work on to simply download the whole setup file (or add an option for that), so the up-coming build won't barf when it gets released.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS!!!

Looking forward to the new build - but love it anyway. My only complaint is that I can't get it to work behind our firewall. Tried your proxy setting but down't work. Any clues?

Cheers
Chris

Good luck. I really like Digsby and tell all my friends. Look forward to the release.

keep up the good work. i pass along digsby to friends every chance i get. a beautiful app. and the changes sound like it will make it easier on my system, which is the only slight complaint i have ever had.

one request. i know there are tons of social sites out there, but i formally request that brightkite be added to the available social nets. please?

thanks for everything

Great job guys! I use digsby as much as I can,

This is incredible news. I downloaded Digsby just a few days ago and already I can tell that I’m not going to use another chat program again.

All the care the creators put into this program really means alot and shows in the final product.

looking forward to overhauled release,Congratulations for this awesome software, about the fast development of it, and, above all, about the care you have to inform all users about all the Digby aspects (good or bad ones)!

Glad to hear about all of this. My only real complaints with Digsby have been the memory usage and the fact that it auto-updates instead of just alerting that an update is there.

Having to wait for a 17mb update to download on dial-up before using Digsby sucks. Why not have it notify and offer to download now or later, or have it download in the background and install on exit? I've actually on many occasions just quit Digsby and used Pidgin or Meebo and download the install later because it doesn't show how big the download is or how long it will take. I realise this is only a big issue for slow connection users (probably a small segment, but more options for updates would be greatly appreciated!)

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@vsk - It’s not that it is taking so long to port it to Linux. Digsby was designed from the ground up to be cross-platform. We are launching for one operating system at a time so we can respond to bug reports more quickly.
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Cool! Thanks for the info.

Multi-person chats? (Chatrooms?)
Variable transparency in the buddy list?
Voice chat?
Webcam support? (True)


Great app, keep it up.

@Anthony - Right click the status orb in the status bar on the buddy list instead of left clicking it. That will let you choose from the various statuses available on ICQ.

@Hagata - We have tickets for most of those issues in our system.

I'm very glad u guys are going to add QQ in the future . The best if this come ture soon. ^_^

Great job guys! I use digsby as much as I can. Also, I know this should go with suggestions, but it might be a tad bit late. I would like to suggest that you add AIM group chats. It never seems to work for me in digsby and my friends often complain about it, so I have to switch back sadly to AIM so I can chat in groups. Just a suggestion. Also, I've never really noticed the ram usage problem, then again i do have 1 gig of RAM, so maybe that's why.

I have to add, it isn't possible to request an authorization from an ICQ user you've already added (maybe again).

I have plenty of ram, but no linux version!

I wish these people would quit whining about not having the Linux port. Seriously, if you decided to use Linux on your desktop computer then you had to know what you were getting into from the start. Steve has told you repeatedly that the Linux version will be done after the Windows version is done.

Quite frankly, you're lucky one is on the way at all. Given the attitude of most of the Linux users/devs I've encountered, I wouldn't give you the time of day. Go code your own and call it Kigsby or Gnisby. The lack of stupid name and the amount of style crafted into Digsby should have clearly indicated this IS NOT a Linux centric project. Deal with it.

Aww I was hoping for a Mac/Linux Release! Do ya guys have an ETA on those? O well, the Windows is OK for me. Keep up the good work.

Hi digsby team,

I just want to ask, if you are aware of several ICQ-related flaws?
1. I can't re-group contacts from e.g. "Buddies" to "ICQ contacts" or "General" after you added the contact to one group.
2. I can't access my own ICQ profile or/and change the data there!!
3. In the history, there are only the no., not the nicknames given displayed!
4. You can't copy a ICQ no. of a contact out of its profile, which is pretty annoying!!
5. You can't access all the advanced settings, that you can normally access through any ICQ client, even QIP.

That are things that should be absolutely changed in the next built! Please additionally contact me, to discuss this issue, if possible. Thanks! :)

Are you ever going to add the ability to listen to Yahoo! Radio?

is there any chance you guys will add Hyves support (a popular dutch social networking site)?

This is incredible news. I downloaded Digsby just a few days ago and already I can tell that I'm not going to use another chat program again. All the care the creators put into this program really means alot and shows in the final product.

YAY,ItZ Nice .... I m Lucky to have it Earlier in Our community...

My requirments are:

>>Features like yahoo messenger(ummm...invisible mood,emoticons,multi -texting,)

>>We want it in bangla-language.

>>etc..etc

I was asking three times on different blog comments, if digsby will have icq xstatus support. Can someone please answer me? You are not planning to add this feature?

@carlos + Adam - We will add more microblogging networks and the ability to set status on multiple networks more easily.

@Stanley - That's a good idea. We have had a few requests for this but didn't want to turn it off completely. Limiting the number of blinks is a good compromise.

@sandrina - That is a browser setting. It should be opening in a new window or tab. Email bugs@digsby.com if you need help.

@bubazoo - Portable version is on the way :)

@vsk - It's not that it is taking so long to port it to Linux. Digsby was designed from the ground up to be cross-platform. We are launching for one operating system at a time so we can respond to bug reports more quickly. We don't want to spread ourselves thin trying to manage three product launches when we can focus on making one solid as quickly as possible and then launching the next.

@Juarez - We will add more IM protocols in the future including Skype, IRC, and GaduGadu

@Ankit - Ctrl + Tab to move forward and Ctrl + Shift + Tab to move backward

@Paldo9 - No reports of issues with sound. Email bugs@digsby.com if you are having trouble. There is a preference to disable sounds while away. You might have that checked.

@codehtmai - Last.fm has been highly requested and we will be adding it. As for MySpaceIM, I don't think there are any useless protocols. A protocol is useful if your friends use it and useless if they don't. There are many people who request MySpaceIM because that is what all their friends happen to use.

@aidanwang - We will add QQ in the future :)

@anter + Kisho - We will fix the bug with Arabic in the IM window soon and release a translated version.

@kyleabaker - I will check that out. Thanks for the tip.

Just wanted to add to that list...a firefox extension that does things like the skype one! that's awesome!

@Steve
About the searching in the contact list. I really like how in Gnome (maybe others) when you start typing the name of a folder or file it will pop-up a little box at the bottom of the window with your search string as you type it. It's a good visual way to show that a search is going on as the user types and it's also not cluttering the GUI since it is only there when you are searching and disappears after focus is lost.

yes soo good but arabic not working goood

Digsby is sooo amazing! Thank you for your effort, can we have Arabic version.

Regards

when Digsby can support QQ, am a Chinese user and if it'll be so great that Digsby can support QQ. Is there any plan?

Digsby has been great so far. Its a shame that so many people are apparantly running computers that struggle with applications that use more than 60 mb of ram; one can easily buy 2 or 3 gb for under $100 these days.

I also find it disappointing (from the user base, that is) how many people want useless protocols like MyspaceIM. Who uses myspace that doesn't already have aim/msn/yahoo messenger? We should be helping the developers focus on protocols that will help attract larger amounts of users, such as IRC, not obscure clients that creepy 40 year old men use to hit on 12 year old girls.

Also, I think about 50% of us are waiting for a Last.Fm addition like kids in a candy shop. This should be easier than ever with the addition of their new API.

Keep up the good work on the development!

i love didjkshkjit gOOd ork you have done

well done
=)

Hey, great news about the upcoming release. But I was wondering if the new release will feature a fix for sound issues. I am having issues with sound on my program. If I am away, are my sounds activated? I was also wondering if you guys were going to add an option to leave the pop up message on top of all windows.

Thanks for the best IM client.

I love digsby! Its everything Trillian should have been, but will never be...

I was wondering is there any keyboard shortcut for toggling between chat tabs some thing like Ctrl + Tab in Firefox. that should come in really handy...

I also reinstate on Plurk compatibility. that would make it cool

good work guys

where i can buy a digsby shirt or a card or anything about digsby?

My question was not answered, so I guess that gg (GaduGadu) is not in your plans? :(

I was looking for a new IM client today and a friend suggested Digsby. I installed it but was surprised by the RAM usage. Good to know the next version will address this.

Can't wait to try it out.

I hope the links are no longer displayed in this next release. It's annoying to have links show the actual code.

Other than small things like that, love Digsby. :)
And glad to hear the memory fixed.

Hello!,
Excellent work!!!

Now that that's been said, I have to beg the Digsby dev team to release some sort of bleeding build for Linux. Even if it's just text-based!
(Let me explain.)
e.g: Pidgin is split up into several parts. One is the actual IM 'engine', one is the 'GUI', etc. The 'parts' *can* work independently of each other, hence, Finch! I'm not sure if Digsby works like that (and I don't pretend to understand how you guys write it), but us Linux users wouldn't mind testing a text-based Digsby for you.

From what I've seen, Digsby uses a LOT of Python, so how come porting it is taking so long?

Regards

oh, another suggestion, a portableapps version! yeah! yeah! :)

Digsby is sooo amazing! Thank you for your effort... :)

PLeasse make a port of it for the iphone, that would be genious!! :D

happy to gear that you will also have it in spanish , tho english is good for practicing

Hey,that all sounds great
my problem is that when you pinch an email notice it does not open a new page but opens on an already opened explorer page which is a bind as I am in gogle and looking for something and I lose it ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh can you sort that one out
its really agavating
thanks
cheers

I just want to say "Digsby is awesome, and I am happy that It has such a great support team. Thank you, and keep up the excellent work!!"

You guys are the best! I can't wait to see the new build.

I find that the most difficult thing in promoting the idea of Digsby is that when they see the mascot of a booger in a hat, it discourages them from taking either my sales pitch or the softwares potency seriously.

Then they laugh at me and my novelty app. and fire up Messenger.

...

No, I'm not even joking.

I have four gigs worth of ram in my computer so I haven't worried all that much about the memory issues. But still, I'm glad to see change. I noticed that it took a lot of ram up, wasn't really sure if you were going to do anything about it.

Steve, thanks for pointing that out (I'm new to Digsby, as you can tell)

One other request - could you make it possible to modify the number of times a window flashes when a new IM comes in? It's very distracting, and at the same time, I'd hate to turn it off completely.

Thanks again,
Stanley

So is that a no, Steve?

Good Job guys, I love the app, the only problems I have and they may be related to the memory issue of which you speak, is that I will be using the app and then get an error msg and that Digsby needs to close, and then it goes belly up. Keep yp the good work!!

Hi,
I have been a regular user of digsby from the 1st week it launched. And have been using it ever since. Absolutelt love the interface and speed of loading the UI. My only complaint so far has been, unable to search for contacts from a search bar. This is one feature I always loved in Y! messenger and G-talk, where u need not scroll down the entire list of offline contacts or expand the groups and do it manually. So it would be great if u can include a search box in ur upcominng release.
Great work guys

I gave up on Trillian years ago, because it was so incredibly slow to load. I've tried just about everything since then, and was never, never happy at all. Then I found Digsby a couple of weeks ago, and there's no question it's the best thing out there. I am so glad to know that the "can't add yahoo buddies" glitch is about to be resolved. That is definitely a biggie in my book. In fact, it's the ONLY biggie in my book. Everything else is minor.

One comment about this update notice, though. It really is beneath you guys to resort to the crude "WTF" terminology. I'm sure it was a temporary oversight, considering how top-notch you have been throughout the rest of this entry. I look forward to future updates!

Looks like i posted the same time u were responding :)

Is Plurk in the future plans too? That w ould makes Digsby ideal for me :)

@Luke - The "no previews" for Hotmail accounts issue was caused by a small change in the Hotmail protocol. This is now fixed and will go out in the next update. We typically push fixes like this same day but because of the major changes in architecture, Digsby wasn't in any shape to be pushed out. Sorry for the delay.

@CP - If you put the code in they will pay up :)

@David - We will add more smilies, skins, conversation themes, sounds packs... in the future. However, there have been a lot of complaints about the smilies so we will probably add those first and give you the option to disable them fully.

@Jake - Agreed. That is answered in the FAQ.

@Steve - Definitely. And also the option to just blink the tray icon instead of opening an IM window

@bubazoo - Digsby doesn't support MySpaceIM yet. As for Facebook, you can add it as both a social network and as an IM account. The two are separate. The bug for adding Yahoo buddies has been fixed in the upcoming build.

@Hemal - Yes! We will add the capability to pull nicknames fro mthe Yahoo servers within 1-2 builds.

@Issy - The next build will include a crash reporter so you can send us a diagnostic log when a crash happens. There are not many crash causing bugs and they are not easy to reproduce so it hasn't been easy to hunt down the causes. The crash reporter will help a lot! As for the little box, that happens if your fonts don't support the music note character. we will figure out a better way to show it.

@Nite - Please email bugs@digsby.com and we can help you out.

@Stanley - That option is in the View menu. However, it will not hide groups with (0/0) since those should either be deleted or you should add some buddies to them :)

@Mads Skipper - Sure. Preferences > Conversations > uncheck the New Conversations Take Focus option

@Robin - I don't know. Help us figure out how to integrate skype by giving us your feedback here: http://forum.digsby.com/viewtopic.php?id=290

@Vasanthan - Use Help > Send Bug Report to submit a diagnostic log and we will take a look

@marj - Sure, click the "Call" button on the IM window.

@Barbara - Si! We will add a Spanish version very soon.

@scorr - Use Help > Send Bug Report and include a screenshot. We'll figure out what is going wrong.

@Steve,
I hope that someone has mentioned this... and honestly, too many posts for me to read right now to find out if someone has... but you should be commended for responding consistently here. NICE... and then I post this long message :)

I have been a HUGE Miranda fan, and honestly thought that it was the best messenger out there. Small footprint and extensive customization.
Problem is, it takes far too much work to get it to where u want it... and then some. And if u check out their forum, you will realize the team in general is rude to users.

So, I decided to try Digsby. I rest my case by saying, I am now stuck with Digsby.... and you guys have only just begun.

Keep up the good works and keep working on the memory footprint.... And the eternally flashing status bar notification :)

not too complain but ive been experiencing something odd. some of my contacts show status:unknown but fall under "away"? i dont understand y. i know im not a great computer user or understander but it seems starnge to me, any thoughts or suggestions? also, maybe a buzz button on chats like yahoo has. skins are cool, lots too choose from, how bout some more sounds to choose? just some ideas

It would be nice to have a dropdown list in chat windows from which you can choose between different emoticons you may have installed.
it could also be usefull to have a section witch checkboxes in the prefferences where you can select which of the emoticons (emoticon packs) should be used.

All interesting stuff. Will the new version also incorporate the use of SIMP??

Me gusta mucho.. aunq seria genial una version en español.. ^^

Just started usage 1 wk now. My thing is about webcam and voice app. Are those two available or to come? That apart its pretty neat to have all my accounts in one place for access.Muchas Gracias!!!!

marcus

There are some flaws in the window maximization and minimization. double clicking on the task bar does not minimise a conversarion windown. if digsby is on, i cannot navigate directly to another window, i have to minimise digsby to open another window (if manin window was up the conversation window cannot be minimised) the main windoe had to be minimised first before i could minimise other conversation windows. this is unline any other windows program. it is slightly annoying have made to click in the minimise button.

btw i am using vista business.

Digsby is awesome. And you guys seem to work really fast. And I'm lovin' how you keep us in the loop.

You mentioned how you are working on a Linux version - when you do have you considered making it open-source? I mean, it's already free - you wouldn't exactly lose anything. And it's way better than Pidgin IMHO, so it could very easily replace Pidgin as the default IM client for Ubuntu.

Also, about Skype, you said it's in the pipeline - do you mean IM support for Skype? Or voice also?

Congratulations for this awesome software, about the fast development of it, and, above all, about the care you have to inform all users about all the Digby aspects (good or bad ones)!

the sync is working very slow.

looking forward to overhauled release =]

Is it possible to make Digsby not minimize whatever your doing if you get a new message?

and not make it show when people you chat with are idle and not?

Hi,
the RAM thing sounds great, it is cool you are working on Skype integration. I just wanted to ask, if you are considering gg support? This is the main reason, why I can not use it as my main IM - I have lots of Polish friends and contacts, EVERYONE in Poland uses it. And it is quite a big nation, you know :D
Regards!

Steve, it'd be great if we could hide groups with no online users.
Would that be difficult to add?

Thanks for the great software!

Hey, I absolutely love Digsby for so many reasons and I'm continually impressed by your aforementioned unparalleled support. I've gotten several of my friends on-board.

Anyway, have there been any bug reports about the "Show last # lines of history in conversation window" somehow de-syncing with your conversation history? For some reason I now see weeks-old chat in the 5-lines. I checked my conversation history at that appears to be updating normally but my latest lines are no longer showing up in the last 5 anymore.

Really appreciating the progress, I admire your enthusiasm....but please, do launch it quickly....'cause other programs aren't being able to run....I'm all out of RAM here.... :'(

I Love Digsby and besides the random crashes that happen after it has been open for awhile its been great :) uses less ram then having all the other IMs and Websites open at once :) also ease of checking everything at once

is there going to be a percentage decrease approximately on ram usage?

and whats with is the little box that shows up every time before a song title when your status is listening to X? (i use winamp for music)

other than those (which are nothing really in the grand scheme)

i love digsby :) tried pidgin once and just about killed my laptop cause i couldnt stand it so i thought digsby might be the same and low and behold i found it was one of the most useful tools around :)

not to mention my sister and dad love it now too :)

Thanks for your user-friendliness! Keep going on!

Hello... Just thought to let u know guys with a problem that i notice. I have my yahoo and msn running on Digsby. Now I have saved nicknames for my contacts on both the messengers. Now when running on Digsby my MSN contacts are visible with the nicknames i have assigned them. But on Yahoo messenger its not visible. I see the actual yahoo userid instead of the nicknames i saved.

Plz check guys if its possible for you to fix the problem. As i have numerous contacts on yahoo and its painful to assign nicknames all over again.

Digsby is a dream messenger and have taken care for all my messenging needs with a great combination. Thanks to Digsby team.... Cheers Digsby keep up the good work.....

Thanks for the updates and hardwork digsby..

can we get a progress report on Mac version?

Is there any chance to add mig33 [mig33.com]?

thanks guys for the update.ram is a concern but on the whole the experience has been great.eagerly waiting for the new release.one more thing are u planning anytime to integrate orkut into digsby.everybody in india uses only orkut for social networking.

thanks again.

Awesome!!!! Cant wait for the new release...and i hope there will be @ least some features from the wish list included in the new release :D :D

Good to know that its still being worked on.
And I really hate that ram problem.

Hope the update is pushed soon!
thanks guys!

but anyway with the myspaceIM and facebook thing, whats happening, is my friends on myspace and facebook are getting mad at me becauce those two places show me as online, but my friends aren't able to chat with me, so when that happens I have to close out digsby and run myspaceIM and facebook so I can chat with them, otherwise my friends are getting mad at me for not responding to their messages. I'm like, well there not showing up in digsby I'm sorry. lol

second, I'm still having problems adding new yahoo contacts to digsby. Right now, I have to close out digsby, run yahoo messenger and add them that way, otherwise digsby gives me a popup error adding the contact.

also if someone I don't know messages me out of the blue, on yahoo, ICQ, msn, etc, I have noticed there is no menu option within that contact window to add that person to your contact list. there should be, otherwise you have to add that person manually which is a pain if the name is kinda a challenge to spell correctly. lol I would suggest adding that to the contact windows right-click menu, or under "info" perhaps, but you get the idea.

maybe someone can explain this to me. Say you want to chat with someone on myspaceIM, in digsby. For one thing, I've noticed all my buddies in myspaceIM don't show up in digsby at all even though it says I'm connected to myspace, and the same with facebook, so my first question is, whats adding myspace and facebook to digsby supposed to be for anyway? because all digsby tells me about myspace and facebook, is when I have new alarts. I don't care about that, digsby is supposed to be an instant messaging client above all else right? so where are myspace and facebook contacts then?

I've been wondering about that since I first started using digsby

I am looking forward to the faster startup. Sometimes, I click on digsby and it takes so long, i thought i didn't double click or just missed it. so i open another instance of it. Then msn and gtalk says someone signed in at another place. I click connect. that makes the other instance lose connection and jump to the front. i would repeat until i noticed i had two instances of digsby. lol!

New user, joined about two weeks ago. I tried everything before trying this and this was absolutely the best on the market. Thanks for the notifications and hard work.

What would i love to have next release?

- Digsby on the iPHONE. WOW!
- Skype support. YES YES PLZ!!!
- IRC for digsby!
- Multi user chat/audio/video conferences
- Bigger contact photos ( even bigger than you largest option right now! ) on the INFO page maybe??
- Automatic sign into MSN account
- Ability to easily enable, disable channels from the UI

Okay that's way too much for one release!

Hope this helps at all

I've turned most of my friends on to Digsby, its the best IM client by far. And this is coming from a paid-for trillian pro user.

Is there any plans to limit or customize the number of blinks a new IM will do? If i'm right in the middle of something its very distracting to have a window blinking forever, I'd love it if it just blinked three times, or once or maybe gracefully changed color or something.

thats just small potatoes though... thanks!!!

Hi, very big thanks to developer team. It would be good next release have Skype enabled :)

I'm surprised I'm only the second person to mention this but you Digsby is getting mature in many areas but I still cannot give type treatment to individual words or sentences. This is something support in AIM 1.0. Come on guys!

If you guys are complaining because Digsby uses too much ram, then throw away the piece of crap your trying to run it on and get a new pc with more ram. Lol jk.

Can't wait til the new one comes out.

You guys are simply amazing. I've never seen such a superior level of support and rapid bug fixing for any product so far. This is how you make software and handle your user base. Brilliant!! Keep up the good work!

Thanks so much for all your hard work on this program. Digsby beats the heck out of Pidgin and everything else on the "market!"

Looking forward to the next build. Any desires to make it open source yet, so that we can build ourselves?

Could you give us a ballpark for the next release? Are we talking days or weeks?

do hope the upcoming update will have better or totally new set of smiley, cost that is something that tis application can't match with pidgen or something.thks.

Just reiterating MichaelK's question about Plurk. Twitter obviously has been having its problems and it appears now those problems have enabled Plurk to come in and take a large portion of their user-base. I think Digsby would be very wise to add Plurk support at this time as there are no current desktop clients for managing plurk accounts (to my knowledge). Anyway, I love Digsby! Thanks for the update!

Not sure if the current version does this, or if it will even be applicable by the time the next update is out, but I was interested in support for the MSN/Windows Live i'm Initiative. In Digsby, if I put the special codes in my MSN display name, will Microsoft know to pay up?

I can't get my MSN emails notification in Digsby. I am logged in with 2 accounts but no notifications appears when an email comes in. Gmail is fine. Maybe it is too much to ask, but if you get Skype on Digsby, then it is the ultimate application for me! Thanks for the good work.

Thanks for the update...i think if you guys can get these bugs ironed out and ram usage down, Digsby will spread faster and more than it has...If you can manage to setup the themes and stuff like adium did with the Xtras then that will be all the better. Even as it stands now, i would rather use Digsby than MSN or Yahoo! Keep up the great work!

@Dabbner - Just click on the buddies area and type a name. Remember that it only looks in expanded groups right now. Click "Ctrl + Right Arrow" to expand all groups.

"Steve Said,
July 11, 2008 @ 4:25 pm

@Kevin - Yes. We wanted to fix the existing bugs before we started adding new services. As the bug reports are dying down we are now focusing on adding features and getting the Mac/Linux versions ready."

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! been waiting a long time for the linux version!

"Steve Said,
July 11, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

@Jonah - Just start typing a contacts name. It will find them. Right now it only searches in collapsed groups but we will add that functionality. I think we also need to make it more obvious that search is there. We don’t want to clutter the GUI with a search box you only use some of the time though."

I can't seem to make this work. What am I doing wrong?

All I can say is I'm a cross-platform IT consultant. I used to love Linux & Mac, but not having Digsby makes me hate them both! Can't wait to have those versions!

Hey, I've been using it since open beta, when I'd stumbled on it by mistake. Since then, never looked back. It's great even as just an e-mail client, which is oddly enough what I use it for most. As an IM client, it's still more professional and user friendly than AIM or other clients I've tried. Even on my slow laptop, the dent in my RAM is seldom problematic. I've got a high end desktop, but use my laptop most, and after running so many other apps on 512m, the slow load is not worth crying over. All in all, great app, and once there's a Linux version, I'll have a reason to use Linux =P

RAM issues under 150MB was a serious issue? Really? I bought 8GB of RAM for under $100... Why spend all of that time and money on something so trivial?

I was wondering if you guys were going to add your own messaging service to the list. I see that the widget seems to go through your digsby account, but what about from one digsby user to another? Is that something you guys have planned? Not that it is an issue (after all, you guys support most (if not all) chat services, and I'm sure that digsby users can find SOME way to communicate to each other), but just something I wonder out of curriosity)

Hey guys..great app!
Hopefully the contacts display bug will be fixed in the new release
I have trouble scrolling down on my msn account i have 50+ contacts online most of the time and the text with their msn names dissapears whenever i scroll down then reappears again after i move the mouse over the text..not sure if that's a bug only on Vista but i hope it gets fixed soon!

o and before i forget transfers of files is deadly slow, needs work

And speaking of user icons, I'd like to be able to have different icons for my different accounts like in Pidgin.

@ziying - Preferences > General & Profile

So, how about Plurk support in addition to Twitter?

this digsby is cool....
but how 2 put my picture?
i mean on digsby.....

Digsby rocks!!

Now iv said the important part, it would be nice to see alot more designs in gigsby need more themes for the main contact list. Id be happy to chuck designs your way i worked on Camfrog Video Chat for a year! Transparency would be nice too. Overall i have had no problems the odd NOT RESPONDING moment but thats it. Look forward to the leak fix im lucky i have my Quad Core my partner not so lucky lol so look forward to that!

I wait excited for the next version!

@dkasper - Just started on the mac build. Linux will come after that. The improvement depends on what it was running at before... it's different on every operating system and on every computer.

@RT Wolf - That's a great point. Added a ticket right now. It should probably explain why you need a Digsby account (preferences synchronization, single login, etc).

I hope this is a place I can put this:

During the installation when it asks you whether you want to create a new account or are an existing user, I was confused the first time, becuase I didn't realize that I need a special digsby account to access (I thought it was asking me if I had an existing MSN, etc account). Perhaps a short explanation added there?

Really do appreciate the great work you've all put in. Truly a triumph of intuitive design versus strictly rational design.

Good work! I'm definitely a convert.

you're amazing buddies

First off, keep up the great work guys, Digsby is the best!

Two questions:

1. How are the Linux and Mac versions coming?

2. How big of an improvement in RAM usage are we going to see in the next update? (Surprised no one has asked that one yet)

@Rubens - If you set the invisible status before logging in to your IM accounts it logs on as invisible. Unfortunately this doesn't really work if you have your accounts set to auto-login but we will make this easier in the future.

@Iain - emailing you for more info about the bug

@Jared - We have had a few reports of this but no idea how to reproduce it. If you can get it to happen reliably that would really help us in fixing it.

Sounds great :) I can only use Digsby on one computer as it is painfully slow on the other with less ram :(

Thanks for the report! And best of luck with the ongoing development :)

Oh digsby, I'd wait forever for you :D
Keep up the great work, all.

@Jason - There will be a portable version. That's close to the top of the to-do list.

@Aaron - We do need to optimize that dropdown. It takes it really long if you have a lot of fonts.

@Tanya - Sending you an email to get some more info.

@Chris - We built a small delay into the return from auto-hide for that reason. We'll look into whether it should be a little longer or if we should change the algorithm. I like the idea of not just checking how long the mouse has been on the border but checking how long it has been on the border without movement (or with little movement).

I totally love Digsby despite its bugs its still the best alternative for me and i tried many before, cant wait for the upcoming huge patch! Thanks for everything guys!

Will there ever be a portable version of digsby?

(something that can be run from a usb drive from any computer that stores all log files to the local usb drive?)

This is great news! I was a little concerned about the lack of updates recently but I'm glad to hear the progress that's been made so far.

Can't wait for the next release!

For some reason, changing the font or the font style is really slow. Sometimes I do it accidentally and i think my system has frozen up, and then i see I just changed the font to times.

Good to hear, I'm getting about a 10 second start-up, and then it loads the skin and connects, and I have 2 gbs of ram.

Thanks a lot for the Status Report. I am really looking forward to the new release! Thank you all for your hard work, Digsby is great and I enjoy it everyday!

awesome steve good job with the update! You are 100% right, your support is uncanny compared to other IM services. Trust me on that one.

Excellent program guys! Just commenting to say I love Digsby. I was sceptical as I was a big Trillian Astra user, but Digsby's email and social networking capabilities totally won me over. Plus you guys seem to be serious about improving your program for your users. Reminds me of how Ceruelean Studios was like back in the day. Anyway, about the RAM issue. I have 1GB of RAM, so it isn't too much of an issue, except when I'm running demanding programs like Photoshop. Looking forward to loving Digsby even more!

No problem with RAM here though.
Is Skype integration in the list?
http://twitter.com/davidtanth

I think Digsby is great, and am looking forward to the new version that uses less memory.

One thing that I would love to see in a future version may sound silly, but would be a major convenience feature (for me at least). Often, I get careless and move the mouse pointer a little bit too far to the right when heading for the upper-right corner to grab the vertical scrollbar slider of a maximized window, or to click its Close or Restore title bar buttons. When this happens, Digsby dutifully notices that the mouse is at the right side of the screen (regardless of the fact that it's still moving rapidly upward), and slides the Digsby window out to the left, thus covering the area that I was attempting to access. It would be great if there were an option under auto-hide that avoids unhiding the Digsby window until the mouse has "quieted down" and not moved significantly for a reasonable amount of time (and remains at the right side of the screen after it stops moving of course). I believe something in the range of 0.25 to 0.50 seconds would probably be ideal.

I understand that this isn't a high-priority enhancement request, but please take it under consideration at least. Thanks.

I tried using digsby when I accidentally browsing the internet for new gizmos. Yeah aside from large ram usage, its great and I have been using it ever since.
I know it will get better that why I did not removed it even though I only have a small ram on my pc.
Waiting for the next release! Good work and thanks for sharing!!!

I love Digsby! I'm only hoping that we get batch file transferrs and better file transferrs. A lot of the time when I'm trying to send files over 50 MB to friends they crap out for some unknown reason. Both my friend and I use Digsby too, so i'm not sure what the problem is.

I'm another person who can testify to the long wait for startup. It would be really nice if that gets fixed in the next version.

In short: Keep up the great work and I look forward to all the updates!

Take your time, don't need to hurry up! Digsby is already a great thing. Just keep with this great work you're doing.
Thanks from a satisfied user.

I'm sticking with Digsby because of the major UI benefits over other messaging apps - growl notifications that allow you to quickly respond are great, as is the ability to dock the buddy list to the side of the screen and show it by moving the pointer over there.

However, I'm not sure it's going to last - I still find Digsby unreliable in the utmost basic function of sending messages, to MSN users. Sometimes they get them. Sometimes they don't. I hope you iron out these bugs as well as doing your rearchitecting.

Good luck.

I've only been using Digsby for a week or so now and I think it is absolutely fantastic. When you consider how far you've come in such a short time (as I've been reading in a lot of articles), I can only imagine how much better it will be in a few more months, weeks, and years!

Love the way you deploy software and alert users of changes. Keep up the good work!

Rubens

P.S. Are there any plans to allow us to sign in initially as invisible? Sometimes I like to see who is online instead of signing in and having to change my status.

@Steve - Cool, thanks for the reply. Sorry to complain so much, I say all that but the truth of the matter is that I haven't used anything other than Digsby in a while now. ;)

That's awesome!
I really am pleased that you guys care enough to give detailed updates about development progress. I really like Digsby, overall, and am very excited about the optimization. It wouldn't be possible to add Steam chat into it, would it? I know that's a little silly, and perhaps quite unnecessary, but having Steam and Digsby open does use a bunch of resources, though I guess the new update should deal with that sufficiently.
Thanks!

I love Digsby. It's awesome and it has a very nice interface. So far I have not had substantial problems like other have had, like crashing completely, but I'm sure there are bugs that exist(I haven't come in contact with any). Can't wait for the update and keep up the good work!

Hey Steve,

Wasn't sure if this bug was reported, but just wanted to let you know that frequently when highlighting names, if u minimize Digsby, the buddy info (about the highlighted friend) box will stay-up sometimes, on top of all the windows, even when the buddy list is minimized!

Keep up the good work though :)

An awesome project.

@Sarah - Every one of those is actually on our todo list :)

Guys, you're the best!
Just add more smileys, this are beautiful, but there are only 25 of them.
I was surprised when you replied to report for bug, just don't stop it when you get more famous.

@dravekx - We try to stand out from the crowd with unmatched support. Emails and bug reports all get a personal reply... usually within a day.

@EerFoolWVU - There are pictures on the Facebook fan group. You should all join :)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=766569430...

I love Digsby, but I agree about hoping for interface tweaks.

I notice that when I change font type (to bold, italic, and so forth), I can only do an entire line, not a single word.

There also seems to be no easy way to export logs, and copying and pasting from a log window usually leaves lots of white space and markup.

I think the one that gets me the most, though, is that I haven't been able to find a way to turn off graphical emoticons. That's a big one for me, since I just don't like them.

I very much want to promote the client to everybody I know, as the "Adium for Windows", but it's hard to explain to them why they can't do things that (in my opinion) should have been included first.

DOUBLE POST: Oh yeah! And Im a DIE HARD TRILLIAN ASTRA BETA-TEST FAN who is currently enjoying the luxury of Digsby. WTG Guys.. Just do me a favor and dont screw the little guys on support. :)

You guys rule!

I dunno. I have a monster machine and digsby doesnt use jack for ram on my laptop. It runs smooth as silk... I just wish there was a MyspaceIM plugin and not just FACEBOOK. :( Trillian had myspace, but no facebook. "someday the force will be one and complete... on that day, i will be digsby or trillian" Who will win? :)

good luck ;)

Anybody else seen the Digsby ads on trashcans in NYC? I'm headed back there Sunday, I'll try to remember to take some pics.

Since digsby is advertising in NYC (albeit on trashcans) does this mean in the future the client will either be ad-supported or fee-based?


I like the guy who had to point out how early on he started using this client, I guess that makes him cool or somethin'.

I started using this when lifehacker had it on their site with the invite code, haven't gone back to anything else since. How many others this because of LifeHacker?

@Stefan - that is certainly on the todo list.

Installed Digsby 3 days ago after being a long time Pidgin user, love it! What I would like to see in future releases is notifications of certain users signing on. I would like to be notified if my girlfriend signs on, or my mom, etc. and be able to set that per screen name instead of on for everyone or off.

@Violet - If you have problems after the update submit a bug report from the Help menu and we will take a look.

@Amar - Check the above comments. Startup time will improve but if you have it start with Windows it also depends on the order of things the operating system chooses.

@gabriel - If explorer is using CPU I don't really know how we can fix that. Explorer is the desktop you see on windows and its performance is out of our hands.

@Dan - That sounds good. And maybe a menu item too so people can learn the Ctrl + F shortcut!

@Chris - If you are having trouble going invisible email bugs@digsby.com with steps to reproduce. As for messaging while invisible, it's not working yet but it is close to the top of the todo list.

Great job guys. Digsby works great despite the mem leaks. Even still, digsby surpasses every chat client on the market today...by light years.

Ditto... As a career IT guy I find the regular startup message updates a breath of fresh air. Keep up the awesome work!

oh there is!! ahaaa nevermind. ^^

Glad to hear its being worked on. I have turned 3 people onto Digsby in the past month or so.

Look forward to the new release!

Will there be a Linux version?

this is awesome guys! I cannot wait. I've only been using it for 2 and a half weeks now - and, have had only 1 problem..and, that wasn't even on Digsby's end! I've actually had NO problem with the RAM usage, even when i leave the computer up for 2 weeks and then do a restart (I hardly ever do a cold OR warm boot unless i need to) Digsby has always been the one program that uses less memory than any of my other programs.

The ONLY thing i can "complain" about is the invisible feature. Doesn't seem to work the way i want it to - sometimes ya are, sometimes ya aren't. And, if ya do end up going invisible, ya can't send messages over MSN (Couldn't tell ya about yahoo, aim, etc...cause, i barely use those lol) But, it would be nice to appear offline automatically when ya sign in, AND be able to send messages to other users like ya can with Live Messenger.

Other than that Guys, Keep up the GREAT work! And, hey....if ya want, put me on the beta list! LOL :D

@steve on chat find, would a more Mozilla like approach be better? have the auto find but if a user hits ctrl+f have a little box slide up with a search bar, maybe even take it a step further since you only have a limited amount of results have it auto fill in with contacts as you type?

i was just wondering if the update will fix the issue where when digsby is running, explorer.exe uses 10-20% of processor all the time.

I think my main problem with Digsby is that it takes so long to startup after clicking on it. Sometimes I'll click on it and have no idea whether it's starting or not. For RAM it takes about 50-60 mb, which isnt too unreasonable. I'm excited to see what the update will bring, because I still think Digsby is my favorite IM client.

Hola! me parece genial el reporte que han hecho, y espero que puedan integrar IRC tambien a digsby seria muy util para los que chateamos ahi.

una pregunta, que paso con la visualización del correo relacionado con hotmail , solo puedo ver mi correo desde digsby de yahoo y de gmail. pero hotmail?? esta con problemas?

Hi,
I just want to say thank you for the progress report. I applaud the fact that you guys own up to the problems and don't try to say that it isn't your product that is the problem which I see so many other companies do. You take ownership of the problem and address it directly. Very rare. You have raised the bar.
Also, I have to say that Digsby rocks.
It will be interesting to see where Digsby evolves into.

Crossing my fingers that MSN is finally usable. That's the only think keeping me from deleting Pidgin!

Thanks, we love Digsby, especially that it alerts me to new e-mails. I'm using it on my Laptop too!

I've used Miranda for over 4 years, and when a friend of mine told me about Digsby and I was reinstalling my laptop anyway, I tried it out.

The result? I'm going to migrate my other system from Miranda to Digsby soon.

Take your time, boys. As long as it doesn't get slower and/or worse, I'm a fan.

Thanks for the Report!

I have temporarily stopped using Digsy because of it was because of this particular issue. I will definitely go back to it once you guys have the new build released!

@Manuel - This happens if you log in as Invisible. Gtalk doesn't have an invisible state so we tried to hack one in by setting you to offline after login. The side effect is that their servers don't send buddy list updates. This is fixed in the next update and Gtalk will just ignore the Invisible state.

@Jonah - Just start typing a contacts name. It will find them. Right now it only searches in collapsed groups but we will add that functionality. I think we also need to make it more obvious that search is there. We don't want to clutter the GUI with a search box you only use some of the time though.

@Keith - We will add MySpaceIM.

@Bob - We have not implemented batch file transfers yet :(

I've been having problems with msn , I get the messege than the network is too busy, then I get out of digsby and I enter with msn messenger.

Other problem I have is with Gtalk, I have three acount in gmail and I check my emails with Digsby, but for Gtalk I have just an account and when I connect to Gtalk I do not see my contacts, I see no one.

Bye.

Great! I've only been using Digsby since today and I'm already loving it. It's great to have so much features into one coherent program.

And yes I also noticed the big usage of ram (right now it's at 64Megs) but I'm having 3GB of ram in my system, so it's not that bad, but still the performance could be better; especially the responsiveness of the GUI. But other than that I'm really liking everything so far and I'm taking some closer looks into editing the skin, because I like my IM to be as clean as possible. I'm a former Miranda user with a very very very basic graphical setup.

Keep it up!

Good news. I figured no news was good news. Bug fixes are welcome. And less Ram is great.

I'm pfretty excited at the updating of the GUI, because one of the things I have found myself frustrated with in the past is the Interface.

One thing I think needs to be addressed is making it easier to IM contacts... especially offline contacts. People with many many contacts don't want to sort throught their offline contacts to figure out who they are trying to IM.

I myself have a friend who I know is invisible at all times. When I was using YIM, I was able to type his name into a search bar, which would then provide a drop down menu of all possible contacts I might be talking about, and I could select from this list.

In Digsby, if I need to IM him, I have to type his complete SN after selecting Ctrl+N or File>New.

How about a screenshot or the short-name of the 100 tickets closed? Something to get us all really exited. :)

I am happily using Digsby on four computers ranging from a 1.0 MHz Windows NT machine with 256MB ram to an 1.66 Mhz XP Pro with 2 GB ram, all flawlessly.

So whatever improvements you add will surely be cake for me. :)

Hey, First i just wanted to let you guys know i absolutely love digsby. Best IM program in a long time in my honest opinion. The only one that can compare is pidgin, and you guys are well on your way to completely kicking pidgins butt (Your already better an so many aspects than most IM programs, including pidgin)

My main reason for writing this comment aside from saying I love you guys and all the hard work your doing for us, is to ask...Will you add support for MyspaceIM anytime in the future?

Thanks!
-Keith

When using Yahoo IM I can transfer files in batches. Can't do it under Digsby. What's going on?

@Kevin - Yes. We wanted to fix the existing bugs before we started adding new services. As the bug reports are dying down we are now focusing on adding features and getting the Mac/Linux versions ready.

i have nothing to say it only this is wonderful program

Waleed

How about Myspace IM? It seems you have everything set up for it, just not the IM service itself.

Yay! I love your program guys, and it seems like the next update will fix the few things I've disliked about the program. (RAM and GUI responsiveness, but these two problems aren't a deal breaker for me when this program is so good!)

Thanks a bunch!

-Dan

I loved Digsby. The look is cute and great. And its has nice features too. Tried it recently and just loved it. Would be waiting eagerly for the new major release. Wish u guys all the best.

@X - We will add IRC in the future

@Jon Prall - Skype and group chat are on the todo list too

@Azzy - It won't take that long :)

Whoohooo! Thanks for the progress report you guys! You seriously rock!

th

Thanks for the update, an also its a great change to have Digsby , I was happy to get away from trillian. I cant wait to see all the new features an it will be nice to use less ram , I have a desktop which dont have much as it is ,but its no problem on the new laptop.

Hey guys great work. I've been using digsby for a long time now. Probably I'm one of the earliest digsby users. So it's really great to hear such a good news. Keep up the good work. Best of luck.

Regarding the start-up time comment: Not all of that is likely to be Digsby. I've recently switched from Trillan Pro and can say that it did the same thing during start-up on my machine. If, however, you disable auto-start and start either Trillian or Digsby after you have been in your login session for a minute or so, they start fairly quickly. So, I would suspect that there is still system start-up processing holding the IM clients back a bit during initial client start-up (especially after a reboot). A stripped-down Miranda might start up more quickly, but I've never been able to get used to the some-assembly-required nature of that client.

Good stuff guys I have been using Digsby since its early closed stages, the ram usage was a small problem but it was a small price to pay. Keep up the good work guys. Hope you add IRC to Digsby soon.

Awesome news. I love, no LOVE, your product and recommend it to everyone I can. I can't wait for the new update. Looking forward to seeing what you have done.

Re-architecting can be a lot of work, thanks for working that angle. It does use a fair amount of RAM but definitely something I can (and do) live with.

What I would really like to see is group chat support. Is that something that is possible? Something that is on the roadmap? Something that is in the next release?

Also, The ability to kill skype with voice support that doesn't have a terrible echo problem would be fantastic.

Killer product though. Huge hit at the office.

thanks
jp

Hey all,
I'm new, and am loving Digsby. I think you have done a great job so far. The only problem I have is that sometimes Digsby gets slow (like when opening a new tab, it stalls for a second), and sometimes even crashes completely. Other than that, keep up the good work!

Also.. you guys should release an iPhone app! AIM did their app pretty well, so something like that with the multi-accounts of Digsby would be awesome

-Idris

..Great. Another month. I'll wait through it.

I love these updates. I love how you're using the status message on startup to raise awareness about these updates (and the twitter sitchmo a little while back). Thanks for building in these user-focused features and using them.

CG
http://greacen.com
http://twitter.com/greacen

Great news! I'm very excited for this release. I was actually just hearing some complaints from a friend I recommended Digsby to. I have a lot of ram, so it isn't much of a problem!

@Malachi - Yes, it does. When Digsby is starting up it loads a few things that aren't needed for the login screen. We changed the order of events so that the login screen shows and then it loads other things in the background.

I was just complaining about RAM usage the other day and went back to Pidgin and the facebook plugin.

I'll definitely give Digsby another shot when the update comes out!

Hey, thanks for the progress report! It's really nice to know what you guys are up to when such large improvements are being made, and I appreciate it. Keep up the good work; I'll be eagerly awaiting the next update.

By the way, does this address the startup time as well? On my computer, it takes quite a while for the starting app to come up when starting my computer. However, it's quite a slow computer (only 256mb of RAM), so that may just be the problem for me.

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