What is Digg?183 Comments
- cyberpope, on 10/12/2007, -10/+254The idea is you digg it, gets on the front page, more people see it, more people digg it, it gets more attention drawn to it. More people will email the Digg staff about it, the snowball gets bigger and we try to reach the goal.
- GaffleSnipe, on 10/12/2007, -9/+84@Cyre
And how is not voicing your opinion going to change anything! I agree with Cyberpope. This is sometimes how the ball gets rolling. If it explodes in the blogosphere, maybe we will eventually see some results. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -47/+113Actually, if anything, videos should be put back together with the rest of the site.
- nene7070, on 10/12/2007, -23/+82@software2:
I completely agree! I really dont like having to click to go videos... Just have them in the same page, and, if necessary, offer the separate pages as an option. - JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+62I felt the same way when miniature golf course designers added those windmills with blades that now *rotated*. Completely messed up the course vibe. The game was never the same.
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -14/+62Sounds like a good idea, but it actually makes Digg more complex than it needs to be.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -10/+49[quote]Diggers decide what gets on the front page and we should be able to decide if digg needs a picture section or not.[/quote]
I want a pic section too, so we can do Fark-like stuff. But that would mean the pic section would have to support embedded pics.
Digg for some reason doesn't want to improve the comment system to support any kind of formatting or embedding of thumbnails. I guess it would be too easy to abuse? Or maybe it would kill Digg's servers?
Well, I hope something is done soon. Still waiting for that quote support...
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It's also ironic that for a tech site, there's no code support either!
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Like I said, if it's a matter of bandwidth, that's ok, but otherwise, Digg could really use some of this stuff. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Perhaps "Videos" should be made into "Videos and Photos". The videos section is hardly "news", as it is mostly just funny videos. The thing is, there isn't a section for funny pictures, but it doesn't make sense to drop picture links into videos.
- papavb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37how about a section called 'media' where vids and pics are posted, we definitely don't need a new section at the top as jcs_goog said.
- anotherjeff, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40Diggers decide what gets on the front page and we should be able to decide if digg needs a picture section or not.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40Digg needs a spam section.
- slimscane, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35"Digg this story if you agree"
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so i dont have to keep doing that - stephenwq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24@Software2: Definitely. It doesn't need to be split up any more than it currently is, i would rather the option of everything all being on one page.
If its going to be separated, at least give the option to view all content in one section. - naughtymonkey69, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25You should have the option to include videos (and if they seperate; pictures) into the normal news feed...as lazy as it sounds, its sucks having to click on the videos tab at the top (alot of times i forget its even there). I miss the way it was and I would like everything in just one steady stream of news, so I dont have to navigate around that much. One extra click can easily add up over the many hours I spend on digg.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23No it doesn't.
- geonet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Digg needs a section about Digg.
- blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I thought that was what the rest of the internet was for?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17[quote]Digg needs a porn section.[/quote]
And a Bittorrent section.
How about a cooking section? - bobabadabouskie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19agreed, but pics related to news, tech, gaming, sports...can go in their respective catagories.
- cyberpope, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I do agree with you, that digg should be for news, however every now and then a tech related humour picture might be uploaded to the interconnected network of networks than only the Digg crowd would find funny. Thus a small picture section might be useful. Then again I doubt Collegehumour.com would have these pictures http://digg.com/design/HDR_Images_Of_Chernobyl
- wafflez, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18it'll turn into /b/ in a minute.
- ki85squared, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I thought it was god-awful. I've spent too much time going through the themes looking for a simple, straightforward theme with smaller, sleeker buttons. But no. Most of the themes have gigantic, "Hey, click me!" buttons that look _terrible_. I used to use Modern Pinball [http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/firefox.html] before I upgraded to 2.0. Now I'm using azureFox [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3761/] because, to my disappointment, Modern Pinball isn't supported in 2.0. I just can't understand how anyone could use a theme that draws attention away from the web page content with browser buttons that explode off the screen...
- krakround, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Because we all need to see more cat pictures saying "im in ur compter steeln ur internets"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Isn't that the point?
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@ jcs goog
Ah damn I meant to digg you up but accidentally hit the thumbs down (which also makes me want a reverse digg button that only lets you do it once.) The idea seems good but there does not seem to be nearly enough photos to warrant its own entire section like Videos or News. What instead would be a subtopic like Playable Web games. It would be simple and effective. - ppatalano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Wow this got carried over from the funniest signs digg just a couple of hours ago, that's really interesting
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I don't think it needs a picture section, just a "very short video without sound" section.
The HDR photo section can be labeled "New Xbox 360 screenshots" - elx39, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What do you guys think about a poll system?
Do you think it would make Digg too much into just a regular forum then?
Personally, I think it would be a great feature for Digg, allowing users to not only Digg the stories but give their opinion whether or not they agree with the content - matt646, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Wouldn't you want to follow suit with
http://digg.com/news ,
http://digg.com/videos , and
http://digg.com/podcasts
How about... (Warning: this one is definitely going to be a shocker to most of you, for the weak stomached, please do not read below this line!!!!!)
http://digg.com/pictures
Just a thought... - nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I'd rather have a Microsoft section first.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Too many sections could be too confusing. However, I like the idea of a picture section. How about we combine the Video section with the picture section, add audio and call it the multimedia section or some such thing?
- rpjrugby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I would love to see an option when submitting to digg to include an imbedded poll w/ your article's description. Maybe like to the right of the desc. or just above the comments. This thread is a perfect example. It would remove the ambiguity from "digging" a petition-type thread and automatically being assumed as supporting it's cause. A quick glance at a poll/bar graph would allow anyone to see what others feel towards the issue without having to find all of their comments.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I don't think we need a new section, but thumbnails of the photo's on the front page would be a nice addition and maybe they could have a play button like on the videos that just darkens the background and has the picture pop up..
- thekurst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Digg doesn't necessarily need a picture section, just an interface like the one they have for the videos where you don't need to navigate away from the site to view the picture(s). A nice lightbox (http://www.doknowevil.net/litebox/) type interface. That way users can view the picture(s), laugh or say "that's cool" and move on.
Deposit: $0.02 - DrStephanHeimer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@firehydra2k
"Digg doesn't need more retarded section"
your comment should be in the more retarted section - keiths, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Yea it's a good idea but digg will never do it now that we requested it.
- PolarPyro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/72/
- IgnatiusJReilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like that idea. Because right now, I think the thumbs up/down thing is too much about whether or not the user agrees with content therein, not whether or not content adds or detracts from the discussion. If we clearly set a boundary between agreeing with content and perpetuating good discussion, it would help.
- dataloss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Nah...pictures are usually _about_ something, right. That something should fit into a category.
Just my $0.02.
And yes, I don't like a "podcasts" and "video" sections for the same reason. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, that's probably what it would degenerate into.
- Riluske, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Heh, the idea that comes to mind is 4chan's random section. Lots of porn and lots of disgusting stuff. As a digg user, I don't really want it here
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The way you describe digg, it is like we are Borg.
You will be assimilated! - ellisgl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah - pictures with the story would be nice.. specially with the posts that are just one pictures.
- JPhilipson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, Digg needs to stay a Tech/Social News Site! Not "Stuck in Customs" Personal Flickr Explore Page.
- blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4If people liked the picture, and it got dugg, it would still end up on front page anyway, right? So what difference? Or are your hopes that if you throw them in an obscure section of the site people wont be as likely to see it? I don't quite follow the complicating of digg..
- keikun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6what an ugly firefox skin
- bootle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Digg needs a meta section, for stories about digg.
More importantly, digg needs to allow stories to be filed under multiple categories. For example, a funny picture of an apple computer could be filed under pictures and apple (and design and who knows). I could see that making things worse though. Maybe have the submitter rank them in order of categorical relevance? - plavchan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Change Videos -> Multimedia to emcompass audio,video and pictures. No need for separate categories...
these should be included on the front page, but perhaps with a way to distinguish or hide non-text news....
You know... kind of like how /. has categories for topics... perish the thought. It saves time on reading through the titles... - bouche, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I have no idea how to categorize an image most of the time. As much as I agree with the notion, I think the post sucks as it isn't an article or event or object of any means. Write an article explaining and proving he solution and I'll digg it.
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