Comments on: 8hands for Social Networking: Better Than Digsby?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:02:10 +0000

Digsby is taking about 55k for me. I have one of each service active (AIM,MSN,YAHOO,ICQ,Google Talk,Facebook and Jabber). I also have one account of the following active … Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn active. Plus I have one each of Yahoo and MSN email accounts activated.

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By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:40:21 +0000

I like Digsby but I have found it to lag, and have serious slowdowns. Whether this is from a memory leak or not I am unsure. But I have to say it’s very annoying and I can even say unbearable as that poster put it. I find myself going back to MSN Live messenger and official Yahoo client because of this.
Sometimes when someone messages me, the message come in late for the initial message. The windows are slow when popping over windows im working in, and redraw of the digsby windpws are slow. My computer has no issues on its own, nor with other programs. Including games, photoshop, yahoo and msn lve messenger clients, nor any issues with firefox. So Ive narrowed this slowdown to Digsby itself.
8hands sounds cheesy so im not going to try it, but I do wish digsy would resolve this issue.

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By: Alisha

Alisha — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:21 +0000

@ch1d3th: I’m with you. I have yet to have a problem with Digsby having a memory leak. Maybe I just don’t use it as much or as many features as others do?

@Grumpicus If that is your screenshot of Digsby using a bit too much memory, like ch1d3th said, I would contact the developers.

Also, if Digsby used that much, what features do you use in Digsby? Maybe it’s possible there is a specific feature that caused a problem.

For me, Digsby only uses about 55MB, which is a little much for an instant messaging program, but it doesn’t bother me. But there isn’t a memory leak that I’ve seen.

By: ch1d3th

ch1d3th — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:33 +0000

I still find Amy’s claim that Digsby’s “memory leaks have been impossible to deal with” to be an exaggeration. Personally I still have not had major memory problems. However, Grumpicus, that memory leak is diesel and certainly would affect performance. If that is your screenshot and that leak is recurring I recommend you contact the developers at Digsby.com as they work with the community a lot to improve their program.

By: Grumpicus

Grumpicus — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:23:32 +0000

I found this post/comment while searching for “digsby memory leak” and since you doubt the veracity of “Amy’s” claims, I thought I’d share this screenshot.

http://img186.imageshack.us/my.php?image=digsbymemleakhv0.gif

(I suspect HTML tags won’t work but figured I’d try.)

By: Alisha

Alisha — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:35:43 +0000

Thank you for verifying that for me. It’s too bad people go around putting up comments that aren’t even true just to get the word out about services/products.

By: ch1d3th

ch1d3th — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:27:18 +0000

i think you are right about this one.. the same post about digsby being bugy (sic) was posted here by someone going by a different name than on your blog. check out comment 67 on page 4.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/06/digsby-manage-multiple-social-networks-e-mail-im-accounts-5/4#c10401434