Digsby IM Client

I stumbled across a really nice IM client called Digsby! I didn't see any other posts on here about it so it hought I'd write one =]

Digsby is a Windows IM Client (coming to linux and OS X soon!)

It supports a lot of clients like :

-AIM

-MSN

-Yahoo!

-ICQ

-GoogleTalk

-Jabber

-E-Mail

-Myspace Alerts

-Facebook Alerts

-Twitter Alerts

More clients are also in development and coming in the future hopefully like:

-XFire

-Skype

-and more!

The application is very customizable. The contact list, and messaging box can both be skinned and they have themes very similar to IEView themes built in!

It isn't as skinnable as Miranda, but it is still a young application and I am looking forward to see more development. It supports Aliasing, Grouping by Status, Listing by Status, Buddy Merging, and iTunes support. Please try the this great application out!

It also features a pop up window that when your are working in a different application such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, and you receive a message a pop up is displayed that shows the text of the message, and even has a box that you can reply in without leaving your current window, which is also easily skinned!

#496908

I need to try this, the chat window looks nice

stupid pidgin keeps crashing on me haha

#496915

Seems to be good, Gonna give it a try, thanks

#496923

Looks, nice gonna try it today

#496929

saweet.

thanks, trying it out now....

edit: ok, this is the best IM client i have used..... how have I never heard of it before?

#496935

My favorite chat program to date.

There is a skinning wiki and forum

http://forum.digsby.com/viewforum.php?id=6

http://wiki.digsbies.org/index.php/Skins

#496939

Well actually there was a thread to it : http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread....ighlight=Digsby

Sometimes I'm using it,mostly still Miranda,till I realize that it sucks the memory usage,and if we edited the skins/icons it's always change to default if you get update

#496944

hmm, tryd it and i like it ^^ quite good working and no problems now

#496946

Well actually there was a thread to it : http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread....ighlight=Digsby

Sometimes I'm using it,mostly still Miranda,till I realize that it sucks the memory usage,and if we edited the skins/icons it's always change to default if you get update

If you put the new icons and stuff in the folder with yout custom skin, the update shouldn't delete them.

#496953

Oh,I don't know,I just change all the images and icons in there,ok,anyway will you make a nice leopard skin ?,he he,thank's

oh,what about the memory usage ?,have you figure it out ?

#496958

I just tested it and it seems to be pretty cool (even though I still prefer Miranda IM ;P). Only two little things annoy me: Instead of displaying me Contact's nicknames, I often get just their ICQ-numbers. This is really bad for the Invisible-list.

The second thing is that messages will be send on ENTER. Is there a way to send them only with CTRL+ENTER?

#496959

There is a Leopard skin,check this out : http://digsbies.org/site/node/115

#496960

I might give a try. It wouldn't hurt. Miranda has been giving me issues with adding contacts sometimes.

#496985

I haven't had any memory usage issues... but I also have 3Gb of RAM =P so I'm not really sure. I'm sure somebody has information on this. Also if you want a specific type of skin e-mail me with what you would like it to look like and I will try my best.

#497131

Wow this is great! I am using this right now

#497152

Is is open source? Linux-users and most OS X-users I know like their software to be open source - just look at Pidgin or Adium.

I didn't find anything about its license at the site - does anyone know more?

#497214

No, it is not currently open source, and I am pretty sure they have no plan for this. They are however working on making OS X and Linux compatible versions for this.

#497220

Yes, but especially on Linux, you won't get a large userbase with a proprietary licence, if there are alternatives like Pidgin. On OS X I can't see any reason to go from a free Adium to something proprietary.

#497226

I see what you mean... but it isn't up to me =P lol maybe post on the site or something

#497228

Oh and this also supports some AdiumX message styles =]

#497762

Thanks for the post, looks cool.

#497959

Yes, but especially on Linux, you won't get a large userbase with a proprietary licence, if there are alternatives like Pidgin. On OS X I can't see any reason to go from a free Adium to something proprietary.

Adium has a HUGE userbase on OS X and Digsby will have to have some sort of wow factor to steal me away from it. On Windows, yes, Digsby is great. On Mac, Adium hands down. Of course, I don't do voice/video chat so please, leave that out of the discussion.

#498484

u found this and on windows for now i dont use anything but it. im a strong fan. i thought i posted something like this a while ago

#498497

Ok, been trying this for about 10 mins, Very neat, tidy, good quality chat windows and general feel. 10/10 as it even does cam sessions with ease as thats something pidgen always was a pain with

#499202

Tried this for a month and it seems to be getting better and better!!

#501002