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lethainOct 29, 2010StaffSubmitter
Check out http://tigris.duruk.net/ as a great example!
cdurukOct 29, 2010
Mind, blown.
danbarkerOct 29, 2010
That is brilliant!
cyberaddictOct 29, 2010
agreed!!
davidtcOct 30, 2010
It's funny to see.
http://i.imgur.com/Xdht0.jpg
Nope, no blind digging problem at all. Pretty sad it took about 10 seconds to see it in action.
themachine1Oct 30, 2010
That's pretty cool. I can see in real time users that have way too much Digg activity to be humans.
netchickenOct 30, 2010
Man the spammers are incredible, about 3/5 of the posts from watching this.
puffthemagicOct 30, 2010
perhaps you could implement the live streaming to the frontpage, but only include submissions with a, say, 100+ digg count?
cdurukOct 30, 2010
That's a great idea. I'll add a minimum digg count filter to Tigris.
killerhamNov 1, 2010
Watching this for about 5 minutes makes me really hate the auto submission... digg please take auto submission away!!!!!!
QuentinMossOct 29, 2010
I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot more, "broken axel" messages.
ltgenpandaOct 29, 2010
Thanks Will for this! You promised that something exciting was coming this week and it is indeed! This certainly removes a LOT of limitations existing on the rest of the API.
Is there any plans to increase the limitations on the total count of items returned by rest of the API? As you know, we cannot use the stream to "catch-up" on the old events we missed, and if the events we missed are beyond the limit imposed by the total count on the various methods, it becomes impossible to discover them. For example, last time I checked -- getTopNews would only give 445 ish stories, so I had to add a topic argument and get 10 sets of 445ish stories. Here again, topics with less activity bring very old stories while very active topics bring very less. So, after establishing a highest possible minimum (oldest) date from the 10 sets, stories older than that date had to weeded out, to maintain the consistency across the various topics. In-spite of all of these, only about 25 or so days worth of stories were discoverable.
lethainOct 29, 2010StaffSubmitter
Glad that this meets your criteria for excitement. :) We're definitely looking to improve our existing APIs, and the restriction on history is one of the biggest issues we're working on.
Closed AccountNov 2, 2010
Mind telling me what this is useful for? I don't understand the benefit.
joculatorOct 30, 2010
"Digg has had an API for a while now, and we've learned quite a few important lessons along the way."
Shame you haven't learned the lesson about how dropping functionality from your site will deteriorate the user's experience.
quadeddieOct 30, 2010
I can't be the only one that read "Steaming API"
sneboldOct 30, 2010
I don't see anything
c_calienteOct 30, 2010
So let me guess, you guys updated the API so people cannot tell anymore if you're using 'test' accounts to promote submissions to the FP?
grafenbergOct 30, 2010
Wow, now we can watch in real time as bots abuse and game the system to promote stories to the FP.
I just watched http://digg.com/avonjobsuk digg 30 stories in like 4 seconds.
themachine1Oct 30, 2010
A lot of users are just automatically submitting their own content as Digg v4 permits. That's what avonjobsuk seems to be doing. I've seen another users digging other people stories way too fast though.
batonryeOct 31, 2010
But f**k,the company is submitting almost 300 stories a day!
cdainOct 31, 2010
http://digg.com/shintaw - is a spammer too! I watched him submit over 10 stories in less than 3 seconds. How do we report spammers? The only thing I could find is to post here which isn't official at all
Closed AccountOct 30, 2010
Until you fix my submission history/port the v3 data I will boycott Digg, so I couldn't care less about this. See you when I have my submission history back. Cheers.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountOct 30, 2010
f**ko offo theno
gigadroneOct 30, 2010
Awesome! Now just stop throwing me pages about a broken wagon wheel.. or blaming "Chris" for a site outage and you got yourself a website!
HiClassTasteOct 30, 2010
Glad to see they have some good ideas. I hope they can execute it well...
cmccoolOct 31, 2010
I enjoyed using digg labs visualizations of the streaming API. Are those going to be relaunched on the new digg 4 platform?
richidOct 31, 2010Staff
I was just talking with coworkers about this last week. I would like to see them come back, but we have much higher priority work in the pipeline. Now that the streaming API endpoint is available there's nothing stopping external developers from finding creative ways to display this information.
quickgold192Oct 31, 2010
Apparently the two important lessons learned along the way are just how to kiss ass:
1) OMG you guys are so awesome.
2) You could be so much more awesome if we could only be half as awesome as you!Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
tombkillaOct 31, 2010
Please fix existing features rather than introducing new ones please.
wilhoitmOct 31, 2010
This is what digg version 4 should have been about!
diggerplusOct 31, 2010
Feel free to check out the following Digg Tools too. They are built using Digg API.
http://sub.diggerplus.com/
Keep Track of Your Digg Friends Submissions
http://fan.diggerplus.com/
Analyze Your Digg Friends and Followers
webdevrayOct 31, 2010
Please fix the Digg API down time issue before launching out new stuff...
http://api-status.com/6404/114036/Digg-API
cdainOct 31, 2010
It has been up for me everytime... acting like there are problems with things that are really cool new steps to fix the site won't help. Of course any new API's are gunna have issues in their new backend. Also, you don't sound nearly as mackdaddy as you think
cdainOct 31, 2010
Sad how little diggs things are getting these days. I feel bad for kevin... I want to stay an active member here just out of respect but it is hard when there is such little interactivity compared to 'other' options :\ .. no offense and i'm not just trolling, just bein honest
killerhamNov 1, 2010
It would be awesome if Digg's front page had a dynamic digg button where the number of digg's go up every time someone digg's up (or in the future diggs down) a story. It would be cool to see how fast the story is getting upvoted instead of refreshing the page over and over. It looks as if they could implement whats in this api into a dynamic digg button.