userscripts.org— This greasemonkey script puts an icon next to every digg story that provides a Google Cache and Coral link to the story. Useful for when a site goes down after getting a homepage on digg.
Feb 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
If somebody wrote a program that quickly scanned the rss feed, and visited coralcache of that link right away, it would help. Usually by the time you need to use the coral cache, it's too late. It only works if someone uses it before it is hosed, so that Coral can get a copy to then serve everybody.
A lot of people found this useful, but it would have gone unnoticed like the previous submissions of this same story without a catchy headline.The headline/description doesn't have any effect on the fact that this is a useful tool.
neilmFeb 15, 2006
Spectacular. BTW, stop saying old. I didn't know about this greasemonkey script so therefore this digg served its purpose.
trogdoorFeb 15, 2006
"There is an improved digg ad remover on the same site. No more 2" whitespace at the top of the page."link for the lazy?
Closed AccountFeb 15, 2006
can someone explain how this works to a fuddy-duddy like me?
mightygiantFeb 15, 2006
One, the script is not an extension. And two, It doesn't "Fix" the digg effect at all.
Closed AccountFeb 15, 2006
instead of having to use greasemonkey *and* another script, just use an extension. I wrote an extension that does this a few months ago, called Cacheout. I'm actively looking for more caching services that I can add, so far it uses CoralCDN, then Google. I'm looking to add in searches for Yahoo and MSN soon too. <a class="user" href="http://download.thetechgurus.net/extensions/cacheout.xpi">http://download.thetechgurus.net/extensions/cacheout.xpi</a>
gigglestickFeb 15, 2006
If somebody wrote a program that quickly scanned the rss feed, and visited coralcache of that link right away, it would help. Usually by the time you need to use the coral cache, it's too late. It only works if someone uses it before it is hosed, so that Coral can get a copy to then serve everybody.
northliteFeb 15, 2006Submitter
A lot of people found this useful, but it would have gone unnoticed like the previous submissions of this same story without a catchy headline.The headline/description doesn't have any effect on the fact that this is a useful tool.
mozillaman0Feb 16, 2006
one wordCACHEOUT!!it's a firefox extension that ive used for a long time
jeremymerrillFeb 16, 2006
Wow. The site hosting this is suffering from teh digg effect. What irony.
kevmasterSep 3, 2007
A complete guide how to protect yourself against the Digg effect<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect">http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect</a>