Comments on: Would You Still Recommend Digsby to Someone?

By: eltranced

eltranced — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:00:10 +0000

I love digsby, it needs to shave the 50mb ram footprint for me to enjoy it on netbook

By: Charles Kane

Charles Kane — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:59:34 +0000

Let’s be straight about this. Pidgin is fine. Good code works well (looks aweful), pretty light weight. But it only does multi-protocol messaging. That is NOT what Digsby is. Yes at its core it is a messaging app but it is much more than that – it integrates sociial communication web accounts, acts as a brilliant notifier for multiple email – including webmail – and more.
So recommending Pidgin is fine but it will not give the user what Digsby offers. Only Trillian Astra comes close to that.

By: leland

leland — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:23:43 +0000

I first learned of Digsby here and started recommending it to friends; now however I will not. I myself have always preferred meebo due to the fact I don’t have to install anything other than a browser. Digsby really hurt themselves with this tactic. I do understand their need to earn a living, but sometimes people do not put enough thought into how to earn the money before just jumping in like Digsby did. Now they will have to deal with the fallout including less users…

By: Eric D.

Eric D. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:04:04 +0000

As much as I hate their new installer, I’d still recommend it to others as the best IM client, hands down. I would, however, be sure to explicitly warn them about the junk that it attempts to install and make sure that it doesn’t get installed. As long as you’re careful to read everything, you can avoid all the extra crap.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:53:41 +0000

Accept what you get? Yeah, that’s all fine and dandy until you have friends and family wanting you to fix their computers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:51:00 +0000

Really…. I’ve seen that link but never really thought about whether it included all the crapware with it. I might have to check that out.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:47:32 +0000

Yes, but it can be presented in a much clearer fashion. For example, after declining the half-dozen third-party apps they should present you with a screen with a serious of checkboxes confirming all of the things you will or won’t be installing should you choose to proceed. Kind of a last-ditch effort before they drive you into coffin.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:43:49 +0000

Maybe you guys should have disabled it all together until you figure out a better way to present it to users.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:42:17 +0000

Yes, they did come forward, but for me that doesn’t quite make things right. I view it the same way as a phone company embedding in their terms of service that they’re going to monitor some of your calls for quality assurance, and the only way you know that they’re doing it is if you read through their terms. Obviously once someone points it out they are going to retract and apologize, but they knew very well what they were doing when they were hiding it in their terms.

By: MarcoMR

MarcoMR — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:50:07 +0000

I’ve once tryed Digsby on early stages, since it crashed on the moment … i never touched it again, then lots of websites reported crapware warnings … so i had no interest in it.

I use MirandaIM, free, portable, minimalist and functional, or even MSN Live Messenger but “tweaked” to minimal.