Build 76 – Fighting the Winter Blues!
We’re excited to introduce the first new release of 2010 and this one is jam packed with lots of goodness! We just pushed an update to all users (Build 76, r26321 r26376) which includes a large number of features, bug fixes and enhancements. As always, you can read the entire list of enhancements on our Change Log. Notable changes include:
- New Skins: The “Windows 7″ skin now has 8 new variants by @derekerdmann. Access them via Preferences > Skins.
- Windows 7 Support: Digsby takes advantage of jump lists for easy access to common tasks and top buddies (by log size). We also use taskbar grouping to let you jump to conversations, see typing notifications and unread conversation counts.
- Better Popups: Social networks will no longer show a separate popup for Alerts and the titles will no longer say “Facebook Newsfeed” with a generic Facebook icon. Instead, you will see the friend’s picture and name with a small badge in the top right for each network. You can also comment/like Facebook items right from popups.
- Trending News: We’ve partnered with the folks at OneRiot to bring the latest trending news stories to your social feeds. You can enable/disable via Preferences > General & Profile.
- Facebook Dislike: We’re amazed by how many people wanted to “Dislike” Facebook posts. The Dislike Button Facebook page has over 3.2 million fans! You asked for it, you got it.
- MySpace Newsfeed: We’ve revamped the MySpace newsfeed to support their new APIs so it looks a lot more like the Facebook/Twitter feeds including the ability to comment on statuses.
- MySpace Achievements: Back in September we introduced achievements for Facebook and the functionality is being ported over to MySpace. You will be asked if you would like to enable or disable this functionality and you can turn it on/off by editing your MySpace account in Preferences.
- Yahoo HTTP Support: Restrictive firewalls and proxies should no longer be an issue for Yahoo Messenger users. Edit the account in preferences and set it to “Always use HTTP”
Up next is per-character formatting (so you can finally bold parts of an IM), group chat (long overdue), a greater focus on finishing up mac/linux releases (no ETA yet), and a few other fun things we have up our sleeve for you. Let us know what you think of this release in the comments.
If you run into any bugs please use “Help > Send Bug Report” in the main menu to submit a diagnostic log or email us at bugs@digsby.com. We’ll keep pushing to make Digsby even better and greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word!
Update 1 (2/15/2010 5:30pm EST): We just pushed out a small patch fixing a few bugs in this release. One of them caused auto-update to not work for some users and another caused Digsby to hit rate limits with the bit.ly service because of excessive URL shortening for trending news stories. The new release number is 26376. Enjoy!








