What is Digg?194 Comments
- jayadelson, on 03/14/2008, -30/+134Growing! :) (In a big way)
- oboy, on 03/14/2008, -5/+96Jay, you may be a little biased.
- Hiji, on 03/14/2008, -19/+85Digg may be slowly growing but it's lost its soul. The site is populated by brain dead zombies and marketers. The founders recognize this and are desperate to cash out before Digg's star falls any further.
- jayadelson, on 03/14/2008, -17/+81Considering I am watching the statistics, and user registrations, the unique visitors and page views, I think I might know.
- JlmAWP, on 03/14/2008, -13/+70Growing, just in a slightly different direction than I'd like.
- Hiji, on 03/14/2008, -2/+36Thanks, but don't feel bad. Its nothing against Digg. This just naturally happens as communities become mainstream.
- spyd3rweb, on 03/14/2008, -0/+34Go to reddit and compare it to the ***** that makes the front page here, then ask yourself this question.
- Shiftgood, on 03/14/2008, -8/+36Digg is what you make it.
- xirtap, on 03/14/2008, -7/+30http://google.com/trends?q=digg - Apparently going down.
- jeremyduffy, on 03/14/2008, -0/+22Growing, but into what, who knows. With all the nasty ads for scam mortgages and credit cards, the whole thing seems much dirtier and cheap now.
- jayadelson, on 03/14/2008, -16/+34Those of us who feel an even greater passion than ever for Digg are sorry that you feel that way.
- MikeDugg, on 03/14/2008, -25/+43Stalling.
- astrosmash, on 03/14/2008, -0/+15Big time.
- bromac, on 03/14/2008, -1/+15Actually, I think it happens when the audience controls the content. Once Digg was discovered by people other than ex-Slashdotters, then the content became more and more mainstream.
I read Digg for cool, interesting, funny, down to earth links. I also read Digg to get a hint at what the "Regular Joe" thinks is popular. I read Slashdot if I want to geek out with my peers. You can be a patron of both, and let both have their own, unique content markets. - dcmjzero, on 03/14/2008, -0/+12i have noticed the quality of "real news" going down as well. the house voted on the fisa bill (without telecom immunity) in a secret session last night- and not a word of it on the front page or on the world/business page.
maybe the algorithm needs another re-write? - ryannemeth, on 03/14/2008, -0/+12Use adblock plus, i see 0 ads on digg
- KyleRayner, on 03/14/2008, -2/+13Ive still been here longer than the CEO. ^.^
- dualityim, on 03/14/2008, -0/+10Not quite. Digg is not a democracy but rather a plutocracy. Democracy no longer determines what gets to the front page, but rather friendship networks and relationships determine that. Digg needs to prevent this from completely taking over in order to survive, because a system like this is too easy to game, leading to digg becoming a haven for marketers but leading to the exodus of normal users. The changes to the algorithm are attempts to solve this problem, but they haven't done enough.
- Beatmiser, on 03/14/2008, -2/+11Growing in the way that MySpace grew...that is to say it is beginning to fester with poor content and more spam.
- HarryTruman, on 03/14/2008, -0/+9When Digg first came out, back in the days when the recently deceased TechTV was still a fresh memory, Digg was an awesome thing. It grew nicely for a while but, like anything popular, it got invaded. It's no longer the awesome source that it once was -- which isn't to say it's all bad. The days when people didn't join Digg because it was the cool thing to do were by far, the best.
From what I've seen, the immature audiences have taken hold. 4chan abounds. Which is the sad part, because there's nothing wrong with immaturity. But when that's ALL there is, it gets annoying. - bromac, on 03/14/2008, -1/+10The real question:
How much ad revenue are they generating off all this traffic? - donkeycrock, on 03/14/2008, -1/+10Who cares if it is growing or not!
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -13/+22Digg.com is growing into a facist liberal hell where only discussions are Bush, Obama, Linux, and wierd stories about rapists and spoiled children.
- coit, on 03/14/2008, -0/+8The guy with the access to the statistics, user registrations, unique visitors and page views.
- Zuggy, on 03/14/2008, -1/+9By democratizing the internet that's what happens. On digg if more people are interested in Paris Hilton's latest drunken-sex scandal that's what ends up on the front page.
- fani, on 03/14/2008, -8/+15growing in the wrong direction.
Almost nothing these days is about the cool tech that got exposed at digg. Thats what brought me originally to digg from slashdot - cool new tech stuff with a nice way to comment.
Slashdot was the venerable one at the time, but it was subject to heavy handed arrogant editors/moderators who downmodded comments for no reason etc.
After digg became popular, slashdot is now largely irrelevant.
However, today, digg is all about crappola with digg being gamed for sending diggers to ad-infested sites for ad-revenue etc.
Its all about pictures from flickr, apod.nasa.gov or silly videos from here and there, politics, bashing people/companies that've been classified by general digg as evil etc. etc.
Cool tech is now less than 5% of submissions making it to front page.
I think it grew too large and it can't handle this properly.
Oh ! and stories on digg are usually stale -- they're typically on reddit.com way before here. - typicalusername, on 03/14/2008, -4/+11So, what they're saying is that they want more females and non-techies!? Easy fix... Glitter and Stars everywhere on the pages. Problem solved.
- fkr3, on 03/14/2008, -1/+7Anyone looking at the frontpage can see it's stalled. We get pretty much the same stories every day, and they're all just crap where some minority can pat each other on the back and tell everyone how important and wonderful they are.
- skored, on 03/14/2008, -2/+8i think its still growing a lot. its now getting to the point where i can bring up digg around some of my friends who aren't on the internet all day and they actually now what site i am talking about :)
- Audacitor, on 03/14/2008, -0/+6Indeed. Reddit is already starting to suffer from this.
- thallium205, on 03/14/2008, -3/+9still growing faster than buzz.yahoo.com ...
- pjs1840, on 03/14/2008, -2/+7Alexa is garbage. Compete.com is better but there's really no way to tell if site traffic is growing unless you have access to the analytics/log files. And even then volume of traffic isn't the best way to measure a site's growth or success... I'd focus more on user registrations, return users, user productivity, and revenue... all metrics that are only available internally.
That being said, I don't really know if Digg is growing or stalling. I just hope they don't sell to Microsoft!
Also I'm still waiting on Google to release an Alexa-killer, it's been long overdue! - Hypomanic, on 03/14/2008, -1/+6Oh Sarah Lacy and your sprightliness. But yeah, maybe this is a problem of saturation of bookmarking sites. We're all covering each other's tracks, over and over and over. I keep seeing the same damn videos and pics get dug up that any internet literate person saw years ago. I want more science/tech innovation stories again. Where's the beef?
- HCJfilms, on 03/14/2008, -0/+5Sure glad they walked that whole interview.
- Crosshare, on 03/14/2008, -0/+5You're not going to get far calling people libtards.
- ralphthemagi, on 03/14/2008, -1/+6"But lately there's a sense that Digg's growth has stagnated, and that the company hasn't done a good enough job reaching beyond its male, techy fan base."
Wrong. The site is growing. It's becoming more and more diluted. The site started as an alternative to Slashdot, and it's turned into a ranting site about funny videos, lolcats, Ron Paul, why Hillary sucks, etc. Today is actually one of the better days.
And the quality of the comments has been degrading. It's going to eventually going to reach that of YouTube. - heavystone, on 03/14/2008, -1/+6Stalling AND growing. Sadly due to new members old news is getting digged up all the time.
Also there are alot of tards here....(I am betting I will be called one of them...) - sdcarter, on 03/14/2008, -2/+7than yours... if you're going to questions someone's intelligence, don't screw up something so simple while doing it.
- dcmjzero, on 03/14/2008, -1/+6jay: please rework the algorithm. the quality is going down fast. just look at the front page. one tip would be to make it harder for any title with numbers in it. that would at least cut down on "top 10" lists.
- wtfmate112, on 03/14/2008, -9/+13Well the content has been getting worse because of all this election *****. But when the election is over and Obama is president I predict that digg will keep on growing.
- Crosshare, on 03/14/2008, -0/+4Thus brings up the top diggers and the power they wield problem.
- koob, on 03/14/2008, -0/+4more precisely: appealing to the masses.
- AManWithNoName, on 03/14/2008, -2/+6It is growing, but they do have a point about the variety of the demographic. Digg certainly needs to become more mainstream, learn to market itself to the 'average guy', instead of just us techies, geeks, and wannabe political critics. (Who, by the way, need more variety still...) It may be true that they've got more and more non-tech articles, but the only people looking at all the articles are people with at least some level of above-average technological knowledge. When was the last time you saw someone comment "I'm not too good with computers, but..."? All in all, I think they're safe for a long time to come, but they do need to make changes in order to grow some more. At least, IMHO.
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+4With topics such as "Steve-O Hospitalized, Charged with Felony", I'd say this puppy is starting to smell.
- ciriarte, on 03/14/2008, -0/+4I love digg and it kind of hurts, but it's true :(
- misterpony, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3Hopefully with the customizing and recommendation features that we've been hearing about that are in development, this statement will be even more true. That set of features could really make Digg grow.
- designer, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3Less politics, more tech. Please
- Firehed, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3That's what you wish she said.
- brettg102, on 03/14/2008, -2/+5STALLING. People like me who don't want to read about how Obama is the messiah all day, then comment about it, and say everyone else in America is a hateful, vengeful, evil person are getting very tired of Digg. Google News is far more balanced, and links to hundreds of articles so you get the whole spread of opions.
Anyone know of a no-Obama filter for Firefox or something? - mediaspree, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3digg is the first site i visit in the morning, and the last site I visit before I go to bed. And the first site I visit when I'm bored at work. Someone should be advertising to me and digg should be making money.
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