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- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Digg's Search capabilities are really weak, at best. It's extremely slow for starters, and the RSS is often unavailable when the search fails due to load. The whole search function of digg clearly needs refactoring.
- listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Clever, and much simpler than what I thought the tip would be... that is:
Set your .htaccess to trigger a script when a digg.com referral stops by, with said script emailing or SMS'ing you. Obviously, you'd need a special case like "only email/SMS me once per permalink", otherwise you might end up paying through the nose on text messages. - evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Very useful, hopefully people do this and save their site before it goes down.
- ahill7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Good tip.
Has anyone else experienced a lag in the RSS updating from digg as a whole (e.g. Stories a user has dugg, particular topic feeds, etc) ? Maybe its just me (or I'll blame Google Reader and Sage. :P ) - invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6the search will probably fail most of the time because digg is "experiencing a high volume of traffic"
i have an idea, though. i already have the infrastructure in place (the diggtaggr app) to collect and process URLs of submitted stories. how many people would be interested in seeing a utility where you could put in your URL(s) and have my app email you when it sees a new story submitted to your URL? if i get a lot of feedback, i'll consider adding that in. - invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is a quick proposal that will give people more information on my idea as well as a means to contact me to show interest:
http://brian.shaler.name/pages/blog/dugg-notification/
There was enough interest in the topic to get to the front page, so I figured I would throw this out there to see how many people would want to use a tool I can provide. It wouldn't take long for me to build. If enough people want it, I should be able to find the time to set it up fairly soon. - sciencebase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No need to do the search again and again for multiple sites of course, just edit the following URL to the particular domain you're interested in:
http://www.digg.com/rss_search?search=www.thedomainyouareinterestedin.com&area=all&type=url&age=7§ion=news - maeon3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg could make it easy for the other websites by setting up a custom index page with a itemized list of all the servers that have been dugg.
Then all you have to do is search a page for a string. - shinerweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(Well said GawtMilk... agree with you totally...)
And bonlebon, nice quick and dirty trick...
As the person(s) who mentioned RSS lag, that is most often or not down to the Aggregator/Reader of your choice.
There is a poll time built into most readers in that it doesn't go looking at the feeds every x seconds, more like every x hours.
For those that access it via something like Google, it will go query the feed URL every n hours and stores the results in a local cache.
Until the refresh time, it pulls the feed from the cache.
This reduces an effect similar to the Digg Effect. If Google for example had 2 million people accessing the same RSS feed, they take the hit, not the site serving the feed.
So there always will be a lag on an RSS feed unless you query it directly and bypass the cacheing of your reader/aggregator. - badogg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't RTFA, but just based on the headline I thought to myself - I don't really care if anyone digg's anything I submit. Thats just me though as I can tell people take it personally when they cry that "their" stories didn't make the front page.
- AgenteSegreto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0can you say Yahoo Pipes? far superior to anything Digg lets you do to set up a custom RSS.
- hanapbuhay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@GawtMilk: Please read the article again... it's a tip on receiving an RSS update from Digg if your site's been Dugg.
- surfing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet! Now all I have to do is:
1. get a domain,
2. get my site set up on with a ***** hosting company
3. write and interesting article
(working title: MUST READ!!! Apple Ubuntu iPhone Digg RIAA)
4. get it dugg - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, let's make Google slower!
- dtd00d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Perhaps we should invoke the gods of Google?
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"By doing what? Removing all images, CSS, formatting, background information, content and footers?"
More likely by chaching dynamic pages (PHP/Perl/Ruby/ASP etc) to static HTML pages - Badly written PHP/MySQL sites make up a majority of the sites that go down - Serving a bunch of images/CSS/text uses very little CPU time and upload speed, and depending on the site of the images, very little bandwidth (a few 5x5pixels images will add up to < 1kb) - Most of the reasons sites go down is because their making 200 queries to MySQL on every page load, or not closing MySQL connections down once the page is done.. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The tip would be even better if it alerted you when your site has hit the main page. Being Dugg (with 1-20 Diggs) does nothing to alert you of server woes if it never makes the front page.
- Hidama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good idea.
- ebob9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I would think that a creative referrer script would be more useful.
You could script a sequence where you are notified, track what pages are linking to your site.
Heck, you could even get more advanced, and automagically redirect to a cache (coral/duggmirror) specific content if your site gets hit referred from digg.
That is, if your site survives long enough... - MichaelDotNet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1use feedburner and their digg flare, or hell even diggs own buttons....
- muka3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Whatever happened to being able to search through your own diggs?
- rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Or you could block digg from the referral, like this guy.
- Cyrusman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't turn Digg into Myspace.
- TechTraction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excellent tip! The simplicity of the tip only adds to its overall value. I think a good compliment to this tip is something I've read in other articles detailing how to add some PHP code to your site in order to redirect visits to cached versions of your content. I don't recall the details or the specific articles but basically the code helps prevent your site from falling to its knees under the "Digg" effect. Combine this update tip with the PHP cache tip and not only will you know when a potential onslaught is on its way but you just might survive the storm as well.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9By doing what? Removing all images, CSS, formatting, background information, content and footers? The Digg effect is quite possibly the best way to run your cheap hosting out. You get visitors who ACTUALLY read your content, not some fake hits from shady SEOs. You can purchase good hosting deals so easily thesedays, the Digg effect is such a non-issue for anyone who spends $6 or more on their site per month.
- PadreHomer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Your server is on fire
- bacchus101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Maybe I am missing something here (most likely) but I am not finding any results and I am searching for the base URL of this story:
http://roadrulesrevenge.com/Drupal/images/wwwhowtogeekcom02.jpg - bacchus101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Ok.....I figured it out. URL Only.
It is all in the details...... - nbl9999, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Get a life. Gosh.
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