Instantbird offers support for Adium plug-ins, but there’s a catch: they only work on certain versions, and most only work on older versions. What made Digsby special was that it could use Adium’s clean and gorgeous message styles - your eyes wouldn’t strain getting used to a new IM client if you switch between a PC and Mac. It appears that day has come, but there’s an heir to the Digsby throne: Instantbird. From then on, it seemed inevitable that, one day, Digsby would die.
A year later, Digsby went open source and its code made available on GitHub. Back in 2011, Digsby was purchased by Tagged - a social discovery website founded in 2004 - and development was ceased. However, it wouldn’t be long before general performance would slow to crawl and Digsby would freeze up. Once running, everything was fine - you were connected to your buddy lists and could message as usual. Over the past couple of weeks, Digsby began running in local mode, and only after taking about five minutes to load.
It appears that Digsby is no more, but if you’re a Digsby diehard, there’s one alternative that’ll make you feel right at home. Whereas Trillian is more feature-rich, Miranda IM has more plug-in support, and Pidgin has been around since the dawn of time (roughly 1998), Digsby held its own by being simple to use and easy on the eyes. Having launched back in December 2007, Digsby has been the multi-protocol instant messaging client of choice for many Windows users. Whereas Mac users have the privilege of using Adium, the choice of a Windows multi-protocol IM client has always been a little difficult to make.
Longstanding IM client Digsby is dead, but there’s a great alternativeĪpps and Software By James Plafke Dec.
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