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Digsby vs Pdigin

Which client do you use on Windows?

  • Digsby

    Votes: 27 46.6%

  • Pidgin

    Votes: 31 53.4%
  • Total voters
    58
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Just want to take a tally at which client people are using (and why, if you'd like to share) if you use either of these two. I'm trying to decide which one to go with and can't really decide which I like better after a few days of use with each. I can see pros and cons for both.
 
Never used Digsby. I've heard that there are privacy issues and it stores your information on an external server.

Untrue or not, I'm happy with Pidgin.
 
At work we are trying to move away from Novell and it's products (Groupwise messenger... already dropped groupwise). We are moving to pidgin for IM and outlook for email.
 
Digsby stores your passwords and account information on an their servers. They get hacked, you get screwed.

Pidgin stores (or at least used to, been a while since I checked) your username and passwords in plain text in a specific folder. It would be real easy to grab this information from anyone running the software.

Plusses and minuses to both. Those flaws aside, I liked digsby better. Wish they'd encrypt the information it saved and keep it local, then I would like it a lot more.
 
I use Digsby mostly because it has the best mail handler for all those extra multiple email addresses You get a nice preview of the message with the subject/sender and partial first line of the message. I can tag incoming messages as spam on gmail or yahoo without having to actually log in and delete spam outright on my various pop3 accounts. Right now I have 12 accounts I use to monitor with Digsby and it works out better for me than I ever expected.

If Trillian had a better mail facility I would use it since it has better camera support but for me the email feature is the killer feature for the client.

YMMV, but it's been a fair client for me. The bit on using the CPU cycles without telling folks was bogus but they fixed that and I installed this well before they started with the Ask Toolbar. I don't mind them having the option in the installer, even though I always say no to that.

At any rate you may wish to factor in the email facility into your decision.
 
I've been sick of running multiple IM clients to keep up w/ my friends but from my experience third party all-in-one clients have been pretty buggy and the security is in question. I pretty much just abandoned AIM and ICQ lol
 
Demon10000 said:
Digsby stores your passwords and account information on an their servers. They get hacked, you get screwed.

Pidgin stores (or at least used to, been a while since I checked) your username and passwords in plain text in a specific folder. It would be real easy to grab this information from anyone running the software.

Plusses and minuses to both. Those flaws aside, I liked digsby better. Wish they'd encrypt the information it saved and keep it local, then I would like it a lot more.
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From what I understand, Digsby hashes your password and uses that to authenticate you. The hash is encrypted and stored on their servers. The hash is irreversible, but the hash value is reproducible using the same key and hashing algorithm. Your AIM, Yahoo, FB, etc. passwords are encrypted and not stored on their servers. So even if a hacker compromised Digsby's servers, they would get useless data because they don't have the "key", your password - only you do.
 
DerrajX21 said:
From what I understand, Digsby hashes your password and uses that to authenticate you. The hash is encrypted and stored on their servers. The hash is irreversible, but the hash value is reproducible using the same key and hashing algorithm. Your AIM, Yahoo, FB, etc. passwords are encrypted and not stored on their servers. So even if a hacker compromised Digsby's servers, they would get useless data because they don't have the "key", your password - only you do.
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Its still an unnecessary vulnerability no matter how slight. Why not just make the client work like every other IM client? What exactly is anyone gaining by having to authenticate on their servers?

This is why i use pidgin.
 
I switched to Digsby for the simple reason it keeps my customizations and configurations stored on the server. I install, login, and I'm done.
 
I've submitted bugs to Digsby team and all of them have been fixed.. and they added a feature I wanted. Pidgin devs don't even respond to emails.
 
I can't really say I see the point in using a different IM client than the standard AIM on Windows. I used to used Pidgin for awhile but I just couldn't forget how good Adium was and so I just settled for AIM. I probably just don't use any of the special features enough since I literally only use it to chat with people.
 
guitarslingerchris said:
I can't really say I see the point in using a different IM client than the standard AIM on Windows. I used to used Pidgin for awhile but I just couldn't forget how good Adium was and so I just settled for AIM. I probably just don't use any of the special features enough since I literally only use it to chat with people.
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Funny you mention it but adium is about the only thing about OSX i actually liked. :p

I was just thinking about that when i first saw this thread.
 
guitarslingerchris said:
I can't really say I see the point in using a different IM client than the standard AIM on Windows. .
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Because in typical AOL fashion it comes with bloat, and on and off....adware. And has been known to cause problems with Windows (refers back to widespread issues between it and Vista when Vista first came out) I never install AOHell products on my computer.
 
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Its still an unnecessary vulnerability no matter how slight. Why not just make the client work like every other IM client? What exactly is anyone gaining by having to authenticate on their servers? This is why i use pidgin.
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Isn't it obvious? You gain the ability to install it and log on any computer (once) and retain all your settings/logons/etc. It'd be nice if they gave ya a choice in the matter tho... Pidgin crashed a lot for me whenever my sister tried to send me some of that retarded Flash-like animated crap on MSN, so I stopped using it (I didn't care for that crap, but Pidgin crashed because of merely receiving the request)... I like Digsby's mail handling too.

It's been ages since I used AIM itself but a lot of online friends from a MMORPG I used to play are on AIM, and most of my real life friends are on MSN, so a multi-IM client's a necessity. Didn't the AIM client come loaded to the gills w/ads? What's a good Android one btw?
 
Digsby is by far the best... I have my hotmail, gmail and yahoo mail coming into it as well. Sweetness....
 
I stopped using pidgin when they restricted the size of the text input box.

Not because they did this, but because tons of people were asking for an option for this feature to come back. Their developers were like "haha f*** you" (paraphrased).

Could I change this myself? Yes.
I'd rather use something where the official response had a technical reason for disabling and not some dev who just doesn't like it so he disables it.

I chose to promote a different software package to people who ask.

Digsby can be kind of a memory hog at times, but I like it.
 
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