i.imgur.com — - More stories can hit the frontpage which includes users who have less followers.
- The current algorithm of the frontpage can reside at 30+ diggs.
- More content on the frontpage means a lot of content to discover giving users a reason to spend more time on the frontpage.
Thoughts?
Feb 9, 2012 View in Crawl 4
xraymasterFeb 9, 2012Submitter
I know I'm not the best at designing these things but this would definitely allow the frontpage to move at an even faster pace, allowing users to discover more content.
EDIT: This is of course a suggestion.
amarFeb 10, 2012Staff
Hey Shawn,
Dude, I like that design! I'll pass this around to the dev team. Today's hiccups caused some site wide issues as you might have noticed.
Rock on! Awesome suggestion!
mtownFeb 10, 2012
Could we maybe get some basic flavor text options? Simple things like bold, underline, and italics. I've been coming to digg for nearly 5 years and have always wanted that.
myztryFeb 10, 2012
Lake of text flavour is a definite issue. Especially the lack of specifying underlying hyper-links.
I am by no means new to Digg and find myself spending most of my times over at Reddit instead...
(LOL. Member since 11/12/050... I take it 050 means 2005.)
blankmikeFeb 9, 2012
Another suggestion... I'm running a higher resolution than most. I have vast amounts of unused space on either side of the screen. A quick look suggests I have close to half the screen unused. Have the owners/programmers considered not limiting the horizontal resolution?
gamingforeverFeb 10, 2012
This reminds me of N4G.... Default though should be at like 60 or else you'll see spam all the time...
xraymasterFeb 10, 2012Submitter
While I agree about the default being set at 30 or 60, I disagree about the spam, the digg staff has done a great job at making an algorithm which does not show any spam in the newsrooms. If you check each newsroom individually right now there is NO spam at all with over 5 diggs. None!
couragewulfFeb 9, 2012
It actually doesn't matter. Digg has made it so that their algo chooses stories based on website popularity rather than actual buzz on digg. Skim through the front page and see if you can find any sites that aren't big name domains.
xraymasterFeb 9, 2012Submitter
This can probably solve that problem...I see stories from smaller sites in the newsrooms with 5+ diggs all the time....this change I'm suggesting would basically frontpage any story which reaches 5+ diggs and the frontpage would look like this - http://digg.com/newswire/all/media/recent/5/all on the "5+ diggs tab"
See even the story you just submitted a few minutes ago can be seen there and it would allow users to discover more stories and even bury the dupes or incorrect stories much easily.
anomaly100Feb 9, 2012
But, being in the Newsroom =/= front page.
xraymasterFeb 9, 2012Submitter
I understand that, but with the current Digg userbase being a fraction of what it used to be this would be the easiest and fastest way for "New Users" to discover stories instead of going looking at different newsrooms one at a time.
anomaly100Feb 9, 2012
OK, maybe it's over my head. I'm a tech-dummy. I just don't understand why wondering around page 5 would help new users, but if it does, I'm all for it.
xraymasterFeb 10, 2012Submitter
I don't think you fully understand what I'm trying to suggest here. The 5+ Diggs means all the trending stories from good sources or new sources hit the frontpage at a much lesser count of diggs and let users decide what to do with it. This is mostly for less savvy users who just visit the frontpage and either don't bother to check the newsroom or don't know what it is.
A prime example is this is a story where Doublefine managed to raise over $500k for an upcoming adventure game in a matter of hours using kickstarter [ http://digg.com/news/gaming/double_fine_seeks_to_cut_out_publishers_with_kickstarter_funded_adventure ] but this won't hit the frontpage because it's at 11 diggs. Now this could potentially change the Business model of the gaming industry forever and the average digg user is yet to see it as it is not even in the newsroom anymore - http://digg.com/newsrooms/gaming . It lasted there for a few hours...managed to get 11 diggs somehow but then never made it.
anomaly100Feb 10, 2012
My bad:-( I get it now. It only took me a day! I hope this brings in more digg users. I'd love to see digg returned to its former glory - or a newer one.
xeworlebiFeb 10, 2012
Horrible idea. There should be less in top news, not more. If you want to discover more stories that's what the newswire and the newsrooms are for. Don't push more low quality stories to the front page because you're looking in the wrong place. Stories with as low as 30 diggs already reach top news these days, it used to take at least ten times that amount to reach the front page.
Top news should be for getting the top news at the moment, not to discover new things. How many stories hit the front page every day? Like 100 something. Most of it is crap anyway. We don't need more of it.
Off course I use digg to get the actual news, not to see the latest video of a dumb cat doing dumb cat activities.
Also this should be at ideas.digg.com not digg itself.
chensteven91Feb 11, 2012
I would have to disagree. I believe all news are the same, it really depends on what the majority wants to hear, watch, read or see. More importantly, isn't having the opportunity or even the privilege to absorb more news or new information a good thing? So in the end, it would be a good decision to use a better template that helps expose more news to people. News is just a presentation of an occurrence through any type of media... So how can a specific story is crap?... Most news that are fed to us right now are what the communicator WANTS to feed to you. But anyways.. just my opinion.
xeworlebiFeb 11, 2012
"I believe all news are the same", oh I can't disagree more with that, there is so much stuff on Digg that I would not even classify as news, and then there's all the stuff that makes me wonder why it is even considered as news by major outlets. There's already so much low quality stuff on Digg that lowering the threshold to a measly 5 diggs would only make it worse.
I have to give you "it really depends on what the majority wants to hear, watch, read or see", I guess the good-old Diggers are all gone or have been overrun by the new hipsters and funny-video junkies.
Yes finding more news is great, but don't overly convolute the system because you're to lazy to push the button slightly to the left and top. Use the newswire, or the newsrooms that's what they are for. Digg is getting more and more convoluted, there used to be the front page and upcoming news, now there's top news, the newswire and a front page and newswire for 31 different newsrooms. (And do we really need a newsroom for Lady Gaga? Really people?) I do not believe that making Digg more convoluted will lead to people finding more news.
Trying to make something do everything at once almost always ends with an overly complex system. People like simplicity for a reason, it's clear, you can simply tell were to find what you need, it makes sense.
Have one place with the important news (front page) and one place were you can find new stuff (upcoming) the newsrooms could be merged into upcoming as tags. Also, why am I "following" newsrooms?
A picture of a cat is not news, I call that crap. There is a bunch of idiotic content that is pushed under the pretense off it being news these days, that doesn't make it news though. (Especially the spam, old news, duplicates etc.)
I guess it comes down to two things:
• "5+ diggs", "15+ diggs" etc. should not be considered 'top news', that's upcoming or failed.
• quality vs. quantity.
barfomaticFeb 10, 2012
More would be nice.Someway to filter out the commercial diggs as well or at least hide them. Last but not least, a way to expand the page width. I have a widescreen display and i would be nice to fill the empty space on it.
neondistractionFeb 10, 2012
Here's a tip: stop trying to make it look like facebook.
urdumania1Feb 10, 2012
Here's a tip: stop trying to make it look like facebook.
bsinniFeb 10, 2012
really wish they would stop changing Digg
mailclassof1Feb 10, 2012
Good idea, something like this to prevent Digg dies a slow death.
gregacFeb 10, 2012
My only though is, sounds great as long as it doesn't look like Facebook's timeline update.
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will be nice change
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