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1. Tim Said,

   August 8, 2008 @ 8:45 pm

   28MB of RAM usage is a SWEET decrease from the 50-60some that I was getting before. W00t, thanks for finally satisfying our cravings for the new build!

2. Tim Said,

   August 8, 2008 @ 8:46 pm

   Correction: 28MB was just at the start, when it was connecting and doing all that work. Now it’s at 18MB

3. kyleabaker Said,

   August 8, 2008 @ 10:02 pm

   I’m very impressed with the improvements in this build! It installed perfectly fine for me and everything connected as expected.

   Memory dropped from start-up of ~70mb to ~30mb now and unlike before it holds a pretty constant footprint.

   Thanks!

4. alex Said,

   August 8, 2008 @ 10:50 pm

   mem is down to 20! well done

5. TiredOfWine Said,

   August 8, 2008 @ 11:52 pm

   Linux version…

   Please?

6. lance Said,

   August 8, 2008 @ 11:53 pm

   well done guys! running at 17mb right now. smooth as butter

7. Siliticx Said,

   August 9, 2008 @ 1:00 am

   Holy smokes. 8 mb right now. AWESOME work.

8. David Said,

   August 9, 2008 @ 1:41 am

   I found a pretty major bug with this new build. Sure, the memory improvement is great, but the new build has problems with cell phones. Using AIM, I can’t send messages to my cell phone or any of my friend’s cell phones. Digsby will think the message went through, but none of the cell phones receive it. As expected, Digsby does not receive any messages sent from the cell phones. I’m not talking about messages sent to somebody logged on AIM from their cell phone but SMS by messaging +15555555555. I’m fairly sure this is a fault of the new build because I tried it with the real AIM client and the old Digsby build (15142) and both work perfectly. I’ve submitted a bug report.

9. medj Said,

   August 9, 2008 @ 2:09 am

   I’m at about 32mb in RAM which is a big improvement.

   I submitted a bug report because I was unable to Add a Contact. The “Add” button won’t become available to click. Anyone else have this problem?

   The question I wonder though, will it ever be possible to be able to video/audio chat with people through Digsby the same way as MSN. I just tested it with someone, and they seem to get a link that you come to a page here on this domain where you video chat through the browser. Will future releases ever put the webcam window right in the convo window kinda like MSN?

   Overall, everything seems more faster though. I like it!

10. Jeff Kremer Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 2:27 am

    I am quite excited to try this!
    Will enjoy the less RAM usage =] so thanks in advance for that!

11. Jeff Kremer Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 2:36 am

    As a follow up: went from using about 70 K before, to now from between 19 K to 30 K. When completely minimized and just running the program with no conversations or anything active it only uses about 14 K which is also awesome.
    thanks again!

12. Karim Fatehi Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 3:15 am

    how about having version numbers so we know if we need to update.

13. Karim Fatehi Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 3:20 am

    and hey, on vista x64, it still keeps above 80Mb and just starts lagging horribly at times.. im beginning to think its something that digsby doesnt like abt vista x64.. but then that needs to be fixed, because it is a popular OS.

14. Steve Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 8:57 am

    @David: We’ll take a look at the bug report.

    @medj: Did you choose a group to add them to? As for Audio/Video, we will add native support but in the more distant future. Implementing each protocol’s A/V support is a massive task and since we are able to offer it now in a platform-independent way it isn’t as high up on the priority list as some other projects. It also let’s us offer A/V for protocols that don’t have it at all like Jabber, Facebook Chat, and Google Talk (video)

    @Karim: It will auto-update and we will list the version numbers on the forum as this happens. As for 80MB, I don’t see how it could get that high. Can you submit a bug report using the Help menu.

15. medj Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 9:53 am

    @Steve: I don’t have the ability to select the dropdown to display groups. In my main window, I have “Contacts” and “Offline” since I have never created a group before.

16. Matt Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 10:55 am

    I’m really impressed with this new build. RAM usage oscillates between 18 MB and 32 MB. So far so good !

17. Jahk Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 12:53 pm

    Dunno if it is a Google hiccup at this point, but I am on central time and it keeps having problems connecting to Google talk… and actually, it just crashed as i was writing this message. It asked that I submit the report to Digsby but I am not sure it was sent.

    Restarted digsby and it is still having the connection issues… connected about 3 mins later

    hehe, what i just wrote was incidentally a journal. Hope it helps.

    Using windows Vista 32 bit.
    4gb Corsair Ram
    74gb WD 10000 RPM hD
    Intel Core2 duo 6700.
    AUSUS P5B deluxe motherboard.
    Two dual-head Nvidia Video cards.

18. Dave Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

    Running it now. I’m bouncing between 10-20mb with 4 IM accounts open which is a huge improvement over what I had before. Also I noticed that animated emoticons loop now - awesome!

19. SillyHalfMexican Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

    Oh my. This does work nice! Well worth the wait.
    When it first loads up, connects and loads the buddy lists, (MSN, AIM, Yahoo & GTalk) it has ~30MB usage. When it’s all done loading, ~15-20MB. When the buddy list isn’t in view, ~5-7MB! When it’s closed and has a few message windows up, 3MB! Holy smokes, great job. Windows do seem a bit more responsive. In the previous build, the message window would freeze up momentarily when I received a message. Doesn’t seem to do that anymore.

    Thanks for another great build Digbsy team!
    Yet another reason to recommend this to my friends who don’t like programs using a lot of memory, but want it to do a lot. lol.

20. Tybois Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 9:19 pm

    When checking for emails, Tweets, etc…my memory is around 13K, after than it drops to around 10K.

    No problems so far…nicely done

21. Doug Said,

    August 9, 2008 @ 9:22 pm

    @David: Is that a feature of AIM? Never knew I could send an SMS to a non-AIM subscriber. Is that what you’re implying?

    BTW - tried it to my cell phone and it doesn’t work.

22. Dylan Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 12:03 am

    So far, so good! I’m impressed with the Ram usage. Hovering below 20 Mb and is often times below 10 Mb.
    Good Work!
    I’ll let you know if I encounter any bugs.
    Thanks.

23. McoreD Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 12:53 am

    Great news and already can see the difference. Memory usage as others say is vastly improved. There were other random crashes which I managed to send via Crash Reporter. Keep up the good work!

24. McoreD Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 12:56 am

    Rewording medj’s idea: There has to be a way of integrating a browser window inside or adjacent to Digsby’s chat window to run the current web based A/V support, can it not?

25. x Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 11:22 am

    I just tried the new version on windows xp. I like the new notification bubbles and the new version looks sleeker overall. I will send any bugs i find

    X

26. x Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 11:29 am

    test version looks sleek i will test it and if i come across any bugs i will let you guys know. I really like the new notification boxes.

    x

27. Bradleycorn Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 12:11 pm

    Awesome! Great job guys!

    Now it’s time to get started on Group Chat!!!

28. Sven Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 12:14 pm

    While the last “official” version was very stable I already had five crashes of the latest beta R16719 within some hours yesterday and today (crash reports were submitted for all events). Downgraded to R15142 again.

29. Adam Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    MSN is still broken.

    Instead of messages just not appearing, now when people message me they constantly get ‘This message could not be received.’

    Back to Windows Live Messenger I guess.

30. Steve Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

    @mejd: You can type a group name in that box. If it doesn’t let you then please email us at bugs@digsby.com to let us know.

31. Justin Perlman Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

    I downloaded the new build two days ago. While it’s true the RAM usage is way down, Digsby seems to crash on my system about every 15 minutes or so and seems more unstable. This is just my experience. The previous (current) build although using a ton more RAM didn’t have any major performance issues that I came across during daily use. I hope when this build (upcoming)is released publicly, it will be more stable, I’ll downgrade to the current one and keep an eye out for the release.

32. Steve Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 2:42 pm

    @Justin: Absolutely! We were expecting a drop in stability because it was a major redesign of the architecture and that is why we wanted to have some people test it before releasing to everyone. We have gotten some great bug reports and crash logs as a result and will fix the issues before release.

33. Brentt Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

    I download the new build also, and I love the RAM usage. It is down around 20MB on my machine, and sometimes it’s even lower. Which is amazing.

    Also, I can’t find the feature in Digsby. But is there an area that allows me to tell Digsby to start up minimized, so I don’t have to see the sign in window or anything? Pidgin used to do it and I loved the ability to not have it pop up, even when it signs into the Digsby service, when I start up my computer.

    Either way, great work so far! I’ll continue to use the beta release until the final one ships out the door.

34. Jahk Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 3:42 pm

    I should not ask for anything more, considering how big an enhancement u guys have implemented here…. I am seeing memory usage as low as 3mb. Anyway… Please try to sneak in the control of the flashing taskbar on new messages. It really makes me twitch like i am about to go ‘postal’.

35. Hagata Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

    Hi Steve & digsby team, just a question:
    I know it was really hard work, but as you “only” optimized code, RAM usage, performance and fixed bugs, what about the countless feature requests and improvement suggestions? Will they now be worked on really soon? Or will you continue to tweak such basic stuff? Bottom line: What is your roadmap?
    Would be happy if you’d post more about that!

36. David Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 5:50 pm

    @Doug: Yes. I’ve been using it for at least a few years. Instead of entering a screen name in the Send IM box, just enter a plus followed by their cell phone number including the country code and area code, +12223334444 for example. You can even add that to your buddy list like you would with any other screen name. The cell phone can reply to your messages using SMS and you’ll receive the messages like any other AIM message. However, this feature is no longer working in the latest Digsby release. I hope they fix this in the release for tomorrow. I use this often, so I had to roll back to build 15142.

37. Tybois Said,

    August 10, 2008 @ 7:36 pm

    I have noticed that “tweets” are a little slower via Digsby. Before they took about 2 mins to get from the person who sent them to me. Now, it is more like 10.

38. unruled Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 2:05 am

    thanks for this much needed improvement on the memory front. Please — keep it up ; there should be a consistent focus of attention to this throughout the digsby development timeline.

39. Syk0tik0ne Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 2:13 am

    looks alright so far, im down from 60mb idle to about 20mb idle, still a bit higher than i would like (ran other programs as low as 4mb) but this does have WAY more features and it is definitely an improvement, will report any bugs should i run into any

    couple questions though

    is there any plans for IRC support? if so, is there any ETA?

    ETA for Linux and Mac, i personally use Windows, linux and mac, and would like to see digsby ported over soon.

40. x Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 6:31 am

    I found a bug i clicked report bug

41. Steve Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 9:15 am

    @Syk0tik0ne: Yes, IRC will be added with group chat very soon. We will start working on those two within a couple of releases.

    @unruled: Agreed. The build after will do more to lower CPU usage.

    @Hagata: Absolutely. We try to prioritize and while there are a ton of feature requests the biggest complaint has been performance and CPU usage. No that those are in check we can get back to adding features and getting the mac/linux versions ready for release.

    @Jahk + Brentt: Those features are not there but we will add them. We are trying not to clutter up the user interface but the things both of you have mentioned have been requested by numerous people. We will add an “advanced preferences section” that will be a long list of all the little things we want to add in but haven’t for usability reasons.

42. fallen Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 10:27 am

    Memory utilization improvements are amazing! My one beef so far is that the installer killed all my skins and even after I reinstalled the Aero_Glass skin, while setting to that skin in preferences I got an error and the skin looks all messed up once set. I already sent in the bug report w/screenshot.

43. OxfordOption Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

    I think I’m sitting @ about 37MB. Even with emoticon & messaging style customizations. Well done. Still a bit jumpy though. Slows down the IM windows every so often.

44. rick Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 12:55 pm

    How do i get the latest test version?

45. robot Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

    Thank you digsby you are teh win as usual. I’m highly anticipating this release!

46. Steve Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

    @rick: There is a link above to instructions.

47. Ernest Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 3:38 pm

    Hey Fellas, i just installed the beta version but it stuck on the “Checking updates” part and go no where from there. Im behind a proxy, but i configured the access the right way, i had no troubles with the previous version. Thanks

48. Steve Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 3:56 pm

    @Ernest: That is one of the bugs that was fixed today already. It was proxy related. New build for testers will be up later today.

49. Luke Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

    Thanks for the hard work - one little suggestion. I REALLY like the links to the amazon mp3 search in the “listening to music” status message…however I don’t really understand why you’re using a snipr.com url…why not just put hyperlinked text that says “Amazon Song Information” or something like that…either way the true url is hidden - thus no super-long URL, but one is informative and one is confusing.

    Just my 2 cents, I know you guys have a lot to work on, but this seemed like it should be a simple change (coming from a fellow developer

    Thanks again!

50. Bassam Bokhowa Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 4:36 pm

    Writing in some languages is still not supported.

51. Hagata Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 5:11 pm

    Hi Steve,

    I just want to hint at the fact that my IM history isn’t searchable since the newest build (I can access it though). It is reproducable in the way, that this is a problem with every (ICQ) contact. (I don’t have any AIM/MSN/GTalk buddies, so I can’t check it, sorry!)

    I did file a bug report anyway.

52. Bradleycorn Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 5:28 pm

    So far the new release is pretty darn good. It’s memory usage is much better, and the UI is much more responsive. It does have it’s issues though, which is to be expected with beta software. I’ve noticed 3 issues in particular with the new release:

    1.) It crashes seemingly randomly every so often. Sometimes when I’m not even doing anything. It always asks if I want to send a bug report, and I always say yes. Although I get no confirmation that it was sent, so I hope they are getting to the development team.

    2.) I have dual monitors. When I dock it on the right side of my left monitor and set it to auto-hide, it “auto-hides” by sliding off my left monitor and onto my right monitor. Then if I hover on my right monitor it goes crazy switching back and forth between the 2 monitors. Awesome effects! I submitted this bug report as well.

    3.) I know group chat isn’t supported yet (please please please bring it soon), but in the past, people could add me to their msn group chats. With this new version, that seems to be VERY buggy. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it works, but causes everyone to appear in the chat 3 or 4 times (which you can imagine makes the others in the chat not very happy). I’ve submitted a bug report for this as well.

    It does seem much better on memory usage, and the UI is much more responsive. All in all, a great job. Get these last few bugs taken care of, and it’ll be time to move on to full group chat implementation!!!

53. Olivia Mullins Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 5:46 pm

    I disagree with Luke, I think the link to Amazon in the “Listening to…” status is absolutely unnecessary, annoying, and cluttered. If there is a reason for implementing it, it would be much appreciated if it were an option in preferences. Other than that, nice work guys!

54. David Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

    Messaging cell phones using AIM is still broken in build 16760.

55. medj Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

    I just started Digsby about 10 minutes ago for the first time in about 10 hours. I have the new build installed. I saw the message on the login panel that it was updating. It seemed to have updated but then it said “Digsby needs to restart” or something along those lines. After seeing this message I thought I would browse the web for a bit, so I opened my Firefox 3.0 and then all of a sudden my computer just turned off. I restarted my computer and I can make it restart by opening digyby and then opening Firefox.
    I have tried letting digsby run for a bit with the message “digsby needs to restart” but nothing happens.
    Any clues what this could be?

56. Steve Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 9:54 pm

    @medj: Sent you an email.

57. maxima2k53 Said,

    August 11, 2008 @ 11:11 pm

    i think this new build is awesome…no problems so far

58. OxfordOption Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 12:36 am

    28MB-29MB. Very nice improvement with just one update. I was running @ 58MB earlier today.

59. Mike Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 12:42 am

    Guys,

    Been running the release for a day and no crashes/stalls or hang-ups.

    Fantastic work. Sits quietly in the background when not needed, more responsive when in use and it seems the latest build is a memory hog no more.

    Brilliant

60. Dewey Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 12:49 am

    You guys should have made an announcement!

61. 21csm Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 3:10 am

    @Steve, @medj: I have the same problem with Digsby update on Win XP SP2 - I see BSD and then my PC restarts. Sent out the email. By the way, in Digsby logs it looks like it updated and closed correctly.

62. neaghi Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 3:22 am

    Hi Steve,
    I use Digsby and i’m very excited about his functions.In windows XP and in Linux with wine.
    Anyway I have some sugestions.I have 5 yahoo acounts..and in digsby i have the same pic for each acount..so i wish to put diferent pics for each..implement audio video native is necesary because my friends, yahoo messenger users, consider verry anoyng to conect with tokbox, and some dont,t know what to do…and at least it,s better to put a slider for resizing budy icons in main window (like in yahoo for vista)and increase the maximum size(usefull for pics with details:)at ~100pcs.
    thanks for your work, and wish you all the best!

63. Hayden Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 7:22 am

    My digsby tried to check for the 2nd update, but it stopped progressing at ‘checking for updates’ and then my computer blue-screened and restarted. It did exactly the same thing a second time.

    I manually re-installed the new setup file snd that works fine. This is all on Windows XP.

64. Nick Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 8:15 am

    Now that the checking for update issue is fixed, I can finally test this. MSN still does not work for me. How you guys implement the http method and how pidgin does it must be different somehow, because pidgin works perfectly here at work, and digsby still won’t connect. Please oh please help; I want to stop using two clients!

65. Shawn Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 9:45 am

    Since installing yesterday’s update, I’m experiencing crashes about every 10 mins or so. Seems a quite a bit less stable than the first in this series of test builds. Of course, I’m sending crash reports.

66. jahk Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 9:55 am

    Cannot search history. It does nothing

67. juan Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 10:24 am

    im still having connection problems…keep getting signed off randomly

68. rick Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 10:37 am

    “Digsby needs to restart” - i restarted my computer and still get this message. Please help. Thank you.

69. Steve Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 11:57 am

    @rick: This will happen if you never installed the non-test release. Is that the case?

    @juan: Use Help > Send Bug Report. It may be temporary network flakiness.

    @jahk: Had a couple reports of this and are looking into it.

    @Shawn: I think it is just coincidence but today’s build will fix a large chunk of the crashes.

    @Nick: It should be automatic. Can you use Help > Send Bug Report after it fails.

    @Hayden + 21csm: That is now fixed and will be pushed in a new release later today.

70. rick Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

    I never installed the non-test release. I can’t see the send bug report. What do i need to do now?

71. Steve Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 12:15 pm

    @rick: We will release another build tonight that fixes this. Keep an eye on the blog and once we post an update download the latest installer.

72. jk suthar Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 12:44 pm

    jk suthar agawari jalor

73. SL83 Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

    These new builds are great! I only had one or two crashes so far - but lately I had been noticing Opera 9.5 was running extremely sluggish. Typing addresses into the bar was taking forever for each letter to show up.

    I killed Digsby and it worked great again.

    These new builds aren’t causing that slowdown in Opera anymore. :cheers: !

74. mebrelith Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 1:29 pm

    OMG Digsby running @ 13406Kb!!!!

75. Gabo Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 4:12 pm

    How is the progress on the Linux version.

    We really want it.

76. Ricky Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

    how about the ability to specify an incoming port, before having it try random ports?

77. Mikael Fransson Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 5:31 pm

    I didn’t check before the upgrade but Digsby is steady at +70mb. How many accounts do you guys with 15-20mb have configured?

    I have 5 IM accounts, 3 email accounts and 3 social networks configured.

    And r16760 keeps crashing every 3-4 hours….

    /Mikael

78. Steve Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 6:14 pm

    @Ricky: It doesn’t try random ports - just the ones that we know work.

    @Mikael: The crashing will be better after the next build later today. As for 70MB, submit a bug report. Even with 11 accounts it should not be that high.

79. DJ Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 6:51 pm

    Memory footprint is definitely an improvement. I can now connect to MSN at work behind the proxy, previously this was not working.

    In regards to the performance and “snappiness” of the UI, it actually seems to have been reduced on my laptop. The buddy list is roughly three times slower when you initially open digsby and it is loading the contacts from all the accounts. I’d be happy to provide any specific details you think might be relevant to help address the problem.

80. Steve Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 8:17 pm

    @DJ: The build after this one will focus a lot more on the UI responsiveness.

81. Dylan Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

    The new build says that the “Installer no longer includes the Microsoft VC++ Redistributable (so no more temp files in C:\)”

    Does this mean that the files that were already dumped in there in the last build will be deleted? I’d delete them myself but I get nervous deleting things in the C drive.

82. Steve Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 8:35 pm

    @Dylan: Yes, you can delete these:

    eula.1028.txt
    eula.1031.txt
    eula.1033.txt
    eula.1036.txt
    eula.1040.txt
    eula.1041.txt
    eula.1042.txt
    eula.2052.txt
    eula.3082.txt
    globdata.ini
    install.exe
    install.ini
    install.res.1028.dll
    install.res.1031.dll
    install.res.1033.dll
    install.res.1036.dll
    install.res.1040.dll
    install.res.1041.dll
    install.res.1042.dll
    install.res.2052.dll
    install.res.3082.dll
    vcredist.bmp
    VC_RED.cab
    VC_RED.MSI

83. Erick Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 9:35 pm

    I love the bug fix report openness. Well done guys.

84. x Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 10:27 pm

    ok i have run across a new problem. My digsby won’t auto update it does not install after auto downloading the update.

85. Ricky Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 10:41 pm

    I love it too. I decided to try the beta today to help out and I was surprised to see 3 crashes within a couple hours - of course I sent them every time. They seemed to be random and non-reproduceable.

    I did notice the extra files in C: and deleted them.

    Memory usage is lower but I can’t leave it on long enough to see what it’s like after 10-12 hours! Currently using 5 IM, 2 email, and 1 social account(s).

    As for the port thing, I know it’s not actually random, but I didn’t want to say “several different known ports”.. but honestly, wouldn’t being able to set an incoming port improve connectability?

86. Malachi Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 11:40 pm

    Awesome. With no windows open, it takes just 8mb of RAM. Great job, Digsby crew.

87. MuppetPants Said,

    August 12, 2008 @ 11:47 pm

    I tried Digsby before but gave up with the big memory. I’m giving it a second try now and loving it! Keep up the good work!

88. Phil Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 1:21 am

    I love the work you guys spend on this and the openness - the future of the internet!

    I have noticed a few things. When I try to open my client it basically loads up the “connecting client” again instead of just a buddy list. Furthermore, it seems that I can have multiple instances of a buddy list at one time. Like right now, on my quick start, I have 5 instances.

89. mm Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 3:04 am

    After upgrading from r16760 to r16808 “digsby need to restart” digsby ask for administrator account and password(i am logged in as normal user).
    After that i’ve got BSOD with:
    STOP: c000021a {Fatal system error}
    The windows subystem process terminated with status of 0xc0000005

    This happened twice.

    Regards!

90. Dylan Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 3:11 am

    Thanks for the list.

    keep up the good work!

91. nostra Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 3:19 am

    After another native gadu-gadu client update I beg for gg protocol … but now serious … great job guys. Love new improvements.

92. Tim Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 4:15 am

    Now isn’t this nice, this concept of publicly releasing betas? Many will gladly help and find bugs while enjoying a new version, and you developers benefit from the flowing crash reports and user input. Win/Win as far as I can see. It’s amazing how much has been improved in just 2 days since the initial release of the public beta.

93. Hayden Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 4:18 am

    One thing about the installer, you might want to add those options about the digsby search engine and home page in a page prior to pressing install.
    If you look over on lifehacker, you have people complaining about being ‘forced’ to install these - and still not being able to find the options after being told about it.

    So for making those people a bit happier it might be good to changee it a bit…unless you want it to be obscure to get more installs/more cash - which is fine by me, since you guys are doing a great job that just gets better all the time! keep it up

94. Bryan Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 5:05 am

    Wow, this was amazing. I was running the latest stable build earlier today at about 70-80mb of RAM. Now, with 2 social profiles connected, 3 email accounts, and 6 IMs going, I’m running at 19mb. GREAT job guys!

95. Vikingdread Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 7:45 am

    I downloaded and istalled the new release yesterday and it auto-updated smoothly this morning.

    RAM usage varies between 12Mb and 35Mb which is cool.

    And I am very happy that I can now connect to my MSN account from behind my company’s firewall

    Had two crashes yesterday while doing nothing. None today. I don’t have a problem with it because I know you guys are still working on the final release and this is kind of intermediate code.

    Overall I think you did a great job. Keep it up.

    I’m almost ready to switch over completely from Pidgin

96. Arc Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 7:46 am

    I keep getting “Digsby needs to restart” when I run it and did that three times now and nothing is happening along with when I clicked “Forgot password” it shut down my computer.

97. Paladin27 Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 7:50 am

    Build 16760 was working well for me, but after updating to 16808 I can no longer see any IM messages. The IM container has no skin. It’s really weird, it’s like the inner skin for the message area just didn’t load, it’s pure white. I’ve tried changing the container skin, but even the preview in the configuration doesn’t render. Any thoughts?

98. Steve Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 9:08 am

    @Paladin27: Sent an email so we can figure out what went wrong.

    @Arc + mm + x: This was fixed in the latest build. If you download and run the installer, the next update should go fine. Let us know if it does not at bugs@digsby.com

99. DJ Said,

    August 13, 2008 @ 9:17 am

    I was auto updated to r16808 this morning, and since then I have already had two crashes (I sent crash reports after both). With the previous version r16760, I had no crashes.

100. Steven G Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 9:17 am

     no real issues for myself yet, loving the new release

101. Dylan Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 10:22 am

     I too have noticed more crashes in build r16760. I’ll keep sending crash reports.

     Thanks

102. Albert C Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 11:11 am

     Don’t get tired of saying it: Digsby is the GREATEST, but the file transfers on MSN accounts still sucks. I would have thought this was top priority???
     I do love the reduced memory footprint though.

103. djnutz Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

     I can FINALLY use this at work! *twiddles thumbs*

104. DJ Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 1:08 pm

     I’m up to 8 crashes so far since updating this morning. Is there any way to revert back to the previous r16760 and disable auto updating?

105. Santosh Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

     I have having frequent crashes for absolutely no reason. Three times in about an hour.

106. timmbo Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 2:07 pm

     ran the whole night and still using only 8k. beautiful!

107. Steve Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 2:18 pm

     @Santosh + DJ: We’ll push an update later today with more fixes for crash causing issues. The idea is to go through revisions as quickly as possible to get this thing ready for release. Running r16760 won’t help us find the bugs that are still left. If you want to go back to the stable version you can download it from the main website.

108. Photo Larry Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 2:42 pm

     Working great. Uses about 44MB of RAM (yahoo, aim, msn, 3 emails, myspace acct in use). Seems much faster. Good work Steve and team!

109. xorsyst Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 3:04 pm

     I was elated about the memory usage being way down. However, this afternoon, I restarted Digsby and I saw it auto update (r16808) i assume. I was using r16760 with no issues. After letting it go through the update process, my computer rebooted itself. I thought it was just random, and let it restart. Upon loading Digsby it did the same thing. I had to close digsby from the task manager before it caused another soft reboot.

110. xorsyst Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

     I just went and re-downloaded the install for r16808 and now everything loads fine.

111. djnutz Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

     Hate to be that person bringing up feature eta’s but on a priority level where does group chat rank?

     Thanks again.

112. Steve Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 3:35 pm

     @xorsyst: This has been fixed and the next update will go smoothly.

     @djnuz: It’s getting pretty high up on the priority list after this build is pushed

113. hdche Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 4:04 pm

     i returned to older version, because of restarting my computer 3 times …
     digsby said that it needs to be restarted, .. and it restarted my comp i know that you repaired this bug, but i will wait for normal update now

114. mebrelith Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 5:09 pm

     I must be the luckiest Digsbetester out there. I keep using it and it hasnt crashed, rebooted my box or anything. Oh and mem usage as low as 13M and as high as 27. Awesome. Keep up the great work!

115. Ace of Blades Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 6:03 pm

     Other than the inability to IM cell phones I’ve been updating with the beta releases and I haven’t crashed once.

     How long do you think it’ll be until a stable release will be finished, personally the builds have seemed stable but it seems its different for others.

     Oh well keep up the good work.

116. RJMacReady Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 7:05 pm

     What everyone should remember really is that this IS still beta software and its expected that you’ll find tons of bugs and crashes. Continue sending in the bug/crash reports and if you need Digsby for anything mission-critical, download the official version.

117. Dewey Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 8:19 pm

     The new Digsby is actually quite stable. I have only gotten one crash while launching halo. I think you can release it now.

118. Dewey Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 8:20 pm

     Maybe I’m just lucky, I don’t know.

119. medj Said,

     August 13, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

     I only had problems with the original release of the beta. I have had no problems with the 2 updates that have been released.

     Just looking forward to a few things hopefully in the coming releases.
     - Group Chat
     - Ability to start with windows minimized.

120. nostra Said,

     August 14, 2008 @ 12:56 am

     I installed new release again (windows reinstall) and it won’t even start now … I have Vista on Asus G2S. I’m hitting Digsby icon and nothing happens. Old version is running ok.

121. Steve Said,

     August 14, 2008 @ 9:25 am

     @nostra: It’s a Vista bug that affects only those who jumped into the test late. Next build we are doing fixes it.

     @medj: Both on the todo list

122. cianfarano Said,

     August 14, 2008 @ 11:20 am

     working very well, the only problem is I can,t add a yahoo contact.

123. andreww Said,

     August 14, 2008 @ 11:45 am

     Great build, memory usage is way down, I haven’t had any problems so far.

     It would really be great to get Songbird support on Listening To. I know it’s a pretty small player, but for those of us who use it, it would be great.

124. peete Said,

     August 14, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

     whats with the snipr link after the song being played display!? i want it gone!! at least make it an option, like “promote digsby.” Do I have to go back to an old version?

125. bel Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 12:10 am

     hi, i just recently started using digsby but unfortunately I have to revert back to my old messenger when all my contacts are not loading in digsby. I have edited the server adresses and proxy settings (yahoo and MSN) but nothings happening. Anyone know why?

126. Steve Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 2:43 pm

     New Build Live - see edit at the bottom of the post!

127. digitaltodd Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

     you guys are doing a great job! digsby is now using only about 35MB. i am turning people on to this left and right. keep up the good work. the crashing has only been a minor annoyance for me will see how this new release acts.

128. Nick Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 3:08 pm

     Yay, I have been refreshing this post waiting for a new build and here it is (r16927)! My MSN is finally working! You guys rock, thanks so much! Bye bye pidgin forever.

129. a fan Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 3:27 pm

     I think Digsby looks like a great program and I keep checking this site to get the status of the updates, but I was wondering if there’s any ETA on a public release of this new build. I know you guys are working hard and want this to be as good as possible before you release it to everyone and so do I, but I was just curious. Thanks for all your hard work!

130. Steve Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 3:46 pm

     @a fan: ASAP of course. It looks like the crash reports died down with this new release so we will keep our fingers crossed but there are still some bugs that we need to iron out.

131. twoluvcats Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

     I had to abandon the beta today. When beta was in use and I would restart FireFox, my computer would crash & restart. Not cool. Release version does not cause this at all.

132. SL83 Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 3:54 pm

     Probably a better idea to post a new entry that a new build is available via auto-update.

133. Matthew Lieder Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 4:41 pm

     Yeah, it is kind of a pain that I have to keep checking this post on their website to find out if there’s a new build out, instead of just letting my RSS reader inform me :/

134. Steve Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 5:10 pm

     @Matthew: Understandable The auto-update will let you know too but that makes sense.

135. Matthew Lieder Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 5:39 pm

     I leave Digsby always running on my computer and restart my computer only about once a month, so the login-trigger auto-update isn’t a good notifier either :p. Probably the ideal solution would be to send IM’s to beta-testers every time a new build is released, like you do for non-beta releases.

136. Steve Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 5:42 pm

     @Matthew: We stopped doing that a couple of builds ago because we end up DDOS’ing our blog even with a dedicated server. We’re working on fixing that too

137. Jesse Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 5:47 pm

     I used to use trillian. Now I use digsby and & love it!!! This is a great upgrade.

138. Drei Said,

     August 15, 2008 @ 10:26 pm

     Memory usage has improved! Nice work guys.

     Just a thought, maybe some of the bugs and/or crashes are not caused by Digsby, but because of the user’s hardware and/or some other software that were installed. Maybe those are factors on why you can not replicate some of the bugs.

     Keep up the good work! Thanks!

139. Jacob Parker Said,

     August 16, 2008 @ 6:04 am

     My ram has been as low as 3k now.

140. RJ Said,

     August 16, 2008 @ 11:34 am

     I installed this version on a Sony Vaio CR220E that is running Windows Vista Home Premium. It will not start up at all, reinstalling the stable version fixed the problem.

141. RJMacReady Said,

     August 16, 2008 @ 12:37 pm

     The Modern Bubbling conversation theme (and any of its variants) has a minor flaw. It doesn’t truncate messages. E.g. a maximum length MSN message (400 characters) gets displayed on one giant long line instead of truncating itself into a neat paragraph depending on window size.

     Just thought I’d point that out to you guys :3

142. Ace of Blades Said,

     August 16, 2008 @ 4:56 pm

     Everything seems to be running smooth.

     But I have a question, since I’ve been using digsby file transfers from friends always fail, I can send but not receive, I was wondering if this was just me or if its normal and if it will be fixed.

143. Omi Azad Said,

     August 17, 2008 @ 2:14 am

     It’s slow

144. Ace Of Blades Said,

     August 17, 2008 @ 8:30 am

     Everything’s been running fine since the last build so thank you for that

     I have one question though, whenever a friend tries to send me a file via digsby it always fails, I can send files but not receive so I was wondering if this was just a glitch on my part, or if its normal and will be fixed.

     Thank you for doing a great job.

145. Kadir Said,

     August 18, 2008 @ 7:40 am

     Hey! I want to tell you something. I’m not sure if it is bug but when I ran my AIM on Digsby it showed 2 buddies of me were online but when I checked the contact list with AIM, it showed 5 buddies of me were online so i tried to disconnect and connect AIM from Digsby but no result! There were still 2. Is there a prob with AIM plugin?

146. digitaltodd Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 9:28 am

     how is the mac client coming along? i am always so sad that i can’t take digsby with me when i leave the house with my macbook. i would certainly be willing to test any offerings you have on that front.

147. Steve Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 11:13 am

     Update 5 (above) - r16998 pushed

148. Patrick Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 11:37 am

     Awesome update–running at 10 megs on a Windows Server 2008 machine…

149. Will Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 11:38 am

     The release right before 16998 was amazing, guys. MUCH more stable. Good work

150. Will Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 11:40 am

     Actually… I keep getting kicked from MSN…over and over… (16998)

151. Fernando Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 11:48 am

     it automatically logs me off MSN after the update

152. hau Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

     great improvements on ram usage.. idle around 19mb .. on minimize less than 6mb .. great…

     But one thing I can’t get to work even before the new beta was released. i’ve only icq contacts in my contact list. they are stored in groups on the server … i don’t want to see the offline contacts in these groups but in a separate group (offline contacts). I also don’t to see group with only offline contacts. i know there is an option in the menu but it has no effect. in old versions this feature worked perfectly … any idea?

153. Steve Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

     Pushed a quick fix for the MSN disconnect issue we introduced. New revision is r17003.

     @hau: You can collapse the group. We didn’t want to make it so you can completely hide buddies since you can still send offline messages, SMS, and email. The “Group Offline Contacts” option puts them in the same group so it doesn’t clutter the buddy list. The “Hide Offline Groups” option hides groups where all buddies are offline but not the fake “Offline” group that is created.

154. Lukasz Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 12:32 pm

     Digsby’s getting better and better, and smoothly moves towards world domination.
     However!
     It still has problems with input of char’s outside standard latin alphabet because the textentry widget uses US(?) keyboard layout (or sth) - right_alt+a doesn’t work as it supposed to - instead of nice, happy ‘ą’ it select’s everything and cuts it.
     Not nice.
     (A bug report was sent few months ago, no only by me I think)

     Apart from that little thing - each build feels better than the one before.

155. Sven Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 2:25 pm

     Hi Steve,

     I get the Jabber error message “Authentification Error: SASL authentification failed” with R17003. Any hints?

     regards,
     Sven

156. hau Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 2:31 pm

     Hi Steve,

     ok that’s exactly what i expected from these options.. but i don’t see the “Offline Contacts” group.. that’s why i’ve to disable the “Group offline contacts” Option to see my offline contacts in each group to send a offline message..

     to hide the offline contacts again i’ve to disable “Show offline contacts”…

     to make a long story short: “Show offline Contacts” works as expected, “Group offline contacts” not.. unfortunately

157. muttley Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

     Is there an ETA for fixing the RTL issues?
     Is it coming on any beta fix soon? or will we have to wait for it for the “official” release?
     I can’t use HTTP MSN at work with the official release, and I can’t use the beta because I can’t read/write RTL like in the official release.
     If you can make it happen in the next release it will be much appreciated

158. Peter Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 6:16 pm

     Having these updates off an old blog post doesn’t seem to be the best way to update users since RSS feeds don’t get updated. I have to keep visiting the same blog post instead of using the power of RSS like it should be.

159. SL83 Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 10:15 pm

     Bug with Gmail integration.

     When you enable “Always use HTTPS” on Gmail under settings, Digsby doesn’t work with gmail anymore.

160. Aries Said,

     August 19, 2008 @ 11:59 pm

     Wow awesome improvement on the memory. I use digsby before and I directly uninstall it because of its memory hunger. It only uses around 11Mb when I minimize to system tray. I’m gonna try further. Awesome job Digsby team.

161. Fernando Said,

     August 20, 2008 @ 1:39 am

     Thanks for the quick fix, great job so far with Digsby, the only thing that keeps it from being my main chat client is the small avatars, and the need to restart for other contacts’ avatars to update

162. hurricane Said,

     August 20, 2008 @ 8:03 am

     Have still the bug, that after remaining some contacts digsby get stuck

     when it stucks, there is no change in used memory.
     have alr