Pidgin over Digsby, why?
I like digsby eversince I installed it in my pc but I rarely use it now after a few days of testing and went back to my pidgin.
Digsby is really cool! It is one of the tools I’ve been wanting. It is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list. It is also an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as ‘Delete’ or ‘Report Spam’ with just one click. And one of the coolest feature this toy has, it is a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to. I just use twitter on this one though. It has also an alert feature when someone logs in and that is what is missing in pidgin. Yeah it has the buddy pounce but I like it if was more of the ym or digsby type.
Digsby needs users to register first so that they can save all client’s settings, accounts and password in their server. One thing that my friends questioned me when they installed it, is it secure? The digsby team made an effort to answer that. There has also been a lot of discussion from users questioning why this software needs to store their accounts and password in the digsby server but that was already answered in the forum too and I think it will be far from too soon that they will change that.
The above issue is a lesser concern for me though. Compared to the benefit it gives me, i actually did not worry. I do not enter my important accounts in softwares like these. What moved me to use my ol’ pidgin is the total memory it consumes. It’s big and I experienced lag times when I used digsby. My firefox crashes more often than what I was experiencing before. I already feel irritated when firefox crashes and how do you think I felt more when it did more often than the usual? Miserable! I also notice when I am chatting, the time I send my message, it does not automatically reflects in the textarea which sometimes confuses me. I hate that!
I still look forward to this software’s updates. I still want it because it just amazes me! Hope they can fix those issues sooner…
9 Comments
primerg on June 3rd, 2008
Thanks for the info. I actually haven’t tried installing plugins that weren’t included in the installer. Now I might …
Paul on July 26th, 2008
Yah I know wat you mean about firefox 3. I just installed hardy heron and firefox is always crashing after the 2nd or 3rd youtube video I watch.
I use pidgin but digby luks really slick.
primerg on July 26th, 2008
try it! and let me know how well it went for you. I’d like to give it another try in the future.
Barboul on January 12th, 2009
Hi! I just installed Digsby! It is very impressive what this software can do! I am used to Pidgin and really like it. I do not know yet if I will stick with Pidgin or not, but I am amazed by Digsby so far…
Ionut Ciucanu on January 15th, 2009
Pidgin has a lot of plugins, even for Twitter.
Rene on January 26th, 2009
Thanks for your post, wasn’t aware even of both IM’s as i was looking to use Miranda or Trillian
Abhishek on March 30th, 2009
Nothing beats pidgin’s Psycho plugin !! Really cool. This is the only thing that turns me back to pidgin. Digsby is cool as well and their intuitive approach towards simplifying number of clicks/actions required to do most common tasks is impressive.
However, if they implement psycho I might turn back 
HyBorn on April 28th, 2010
I go for Digsby ^_^
Nelson Blaha on June 3rd, 2008
Pidgin does have a log in/log out alert system… check out Guifications. It’s all in the plugins