What is Digg?335 Comments
- tdogg241, on 04/03/2008, -1/+106I'm gonna have to check out Digsby when I get home. Pidgin's starting to feel stale (mostly because of the minimalist UI), though I can't fault it too much since it worked better than Trillian ever did for me. Trillian became a bloated piece of ***** when I stopped using it several years ago, so I have no idea if it's gotten better since.
- peterkay, on 04/03/2008, -0/+94Why have I never heard of Digsby?
- Jayzo21, on 04/03/2008, -12/+73Digsby pwneds and is only in beta stage. There is no competition
- marksman7328, on 04/03/2008, -2/+49I used to be a die-hard Pidgin fan. Used to be. Then Digsby came along and corrected everything that was wrong with Pidgin. Furthermore, the developers at Digsby are super friendly and actually implement your ideas. So far, just from posting in forums and voting for must-have tweaks, two of my ideas have been implemented - the do not show buddy list in taskbar, and the now playing functionality for away messages. This is the best supported app I have ever used and it is still in beta so the sky is the limit. I am very impressed with Digsby.
- double051, on 04/03/2008, -25/+66Digsby>Adium>Pidgin>Trillian>Meebo
- motang, on 04/03/2008, -1/+40Been using Pidgin/Gaim for many years and I started off with Trillian as my first multi protocol IM and didn't like it too much. Tried out Miranda for couple of days but quickly went back to Pidgin. But this Digsby seems cool will try it once there is a Linux version out.
- ZeroSumDivide, on 04/03/2008, -5/+38Digsby is what Pidgin would be if it were prettier and the if the Trillian developers weren't so lazy. I have high hopes for this awesome little app.
- oderdigg, on 04/03/2008, -7/+34The cake is a lie
- Jo9100, on 04/03/2008, -0/+26We don't have the same definition of the verb 'to analyze'...
- nullx42, on 04/03/2008, -6/+32You have Digsby and Pidgin mixed up there,
- Thunderdome, on 04/03/2008, -1/+23Man, I remember when ICQ was cool.... and functional.
- Lijiman, on 04/03/2008, -3/+25Well said. Just need Digsby for Mac and Linux, then I'll be even more happy with it.
- davingreenwell, on 04/03/2008, -2/+22Only one choice for the Mac really - and Adium is a beauty of one at that. Trillian coming to the Mac? What decade are they waiting for?
- spect3r, on 04/03/2008, -9/+26Gtalk FTW!
- simplynix, on 04/03/2008, -4/+21Haven't seen Digsby, but will certainly try it out. IM, email AND social networking? That's just sexy.
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -1/+17its only been out a few months for windows,
its good i love it :D - Emachine, on 04/03/2008, -7/+23I know it takes a *****-ton of resources, but I don't see anything wrong with MSN Live Messenger, it's pretty reliable, and everyone I know uses it. You can apply a "mess" patch, to remove ads, and clean up the interface by removing buttons you don't need.
- p2a1x7, on 04/03/2008, -0/+15I just downloaded it, but didn't notice the usage until you said so. It was eating 120mb compared to 10mb by Pidgin.... I guess I'll stick with Pidgin until they make Digsby take less of my resources or I get more RAM (1gb is not enough for Vista)
- theragu40, on 04/03/2008, -2/+16I meant 100,000kb, sorry for the confusion. I was pretty sure everyone would know what I meant(100k kb), but looking back on it, that was a stupid way to say it.
- Tenoq, on 04/03/2008, -2/+16I see Miranda just fell out of the top 5. Surely that's better than Trillian on the Windows front? It was certainly more stable, reliable and functional than Pidgin when I tried that on Feisty. I _will_ try this Digsby though.
- bigdoof, on 04/03/2008, -1/+15Pidgin running on 30KB? I think you mean 30MB
- shredswithpiks, on 04/03/2008, -0/+13never used digsby but what I love about pidgin is it's oversimplified interface. I don't want it to look pretty. All I want is tabbed AIM/XMPP chat. That's absolutely all.
- theragu40, on 04/03/2008, -2/+14See, nowadays, 'to analyze' means the same thing as 'to list'.
- rulezgetbent, on 04/03/2008, -0/+12Miranda probably did not make it because it seems really hard to configure and appears confusing when it is very first installed. After that though, I have loved it. It is lightweight, highly configurable, and there are tons of plug ins for it.
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -7/+18Trillian is just a load of bloatware. Doesn't even deserve to make this list.
- Tenoq, on 04/03/2008, -9/+20Not sure how 100k is a large memory footprint? What, do you only have 20MB of RAM in your system or something?
- lucidapathy, on 04/03/2008, -3/+14My thoughts exactly.
- theragu40, on 04/03/2008, -5/+15Large compared to Pidgin, which sits at around 30k or so. I don't think my chat program should be eating up 100k+ of memory, which is why I switched away from Trillian in the first place.
- SickBoy, on 04/03/2008, -1/+11***** I'm old. Still sticking with mirc.
- oderdigg, on 04/03/2008, -1/+11What about Kopete? I don't use Windows if I can get away with it because if I did.. I'd use MSN.. I prefer Kopete to Pidgin anyday...
- snareguy17, on 04/03/2008, -5/+15I call my bitches.
- Daniel591992, on 04/03/2008, -4/+13Why ia Meebo last? It's perhaps the most convenient of them all.
- filmil, on 04/04/2008, -1/+10Haiku?
- Macskeeball, on 04/03/2008, -2/+11Gee, I don't know. Could it be because its interface is appallingly horrendous?
- thebaconmonster, on 04/03/2008, -1/+10how is pidgin exclusive to an OS? last I checked it was win/linux and it's library was behind adium (like mentioned)
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -3/+11cause trillian sucks...
- iofthestorm, on 04/03/2008, -0/+8Yeah, I was thinking of writing a pidgin plugin for better facebook integration but then I found out one already exists but I couldn't get it to compile, and then I realized I don't know much about the pidgin plugin architecture so I'm learning the basics now. But unfortunately, the pidgin devs only work on stuff they're interested in and they honestly aren't interested in the same kind of stuff a lot of their vocal users are interested in (video/voice, social networking, although vv is actually not that useful for most people, whereas social networking is probably more useful).
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -1/+9I am happy with Adium, can't say that i have any issues with it.
- str1fe, on 04/04/2008, -1/+9You can just use the green thumbs-up button to say that.
- fxu1989, on 04/03/2008, -5/+13Still using msn :x
- lysdexic, on 04/03/2008, -0/+8The default install (on windows at least) lets you know when the other person is typing. No plugin needed.
- nullx42, on 04/03/2008, -1/+8@ ZeroSumDivide
Python =/= Auto Open source. - psg188, on 04/03/2008, -0/+7I actually really like Skype.
It's fast, easy, can copy+paste huge amounts of text into it.
Very secure, easy to conference with, the voip is great.
I know it sounds silly, but I also like the little pencil that writes when they are typing, and when they erase it shows such as opposed to just saying they are typing. - serpentor, on 04/03/2008, -1/+8Not sure why you're being dugg down, I just tried it thx to your post. I love lite apps like this and utorrent.
- necromancer, on 04/03/2008, -0/+7I like Pidgin because it has an xfire plugin... but that is really the only reason I use it. Of course the xfire plugin just barely works, but I guess it is better than nothing.
- webcrumb, on 04/03/2008, -2/+9I hope this gives the Pidgin devs a poke and gets them moving. I /know/ the devs aren't paid, but with the SoC etc. I'm sure much of the same functionality could be implemented.
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -2/+8Adium is everything you wish Pidgin was but the developers are to lazy to code. (pun)
- Reziarfg, on 04/03/2008, -0/+6It has an icon indicating that the other user is typing now.
- topace3000, on 04/03/2008, -0/+6Though the article exposed me to some new messengers, the amount of analysis was less than what I hoped for. They really could have done better. That being said, I look forward to trying digsby.
- pwnies, on 04/03/2008, -1/+6To be honest, I prefer smaller, lightweight clients. My current favorite for AIM is miniaim ( http://miniaim.net/ ), and on occaision naim as well when I'm on my linux boxes.
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