What is Digg?104 Comments
- photomatt, on 10/24/2007, -0/+50Note to self: spell check.
- cpoteet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31100% Digg proof? That sounds pretty sure. I bet some diggers would want to challenge that.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23In other news, Titanic.com claims complete immunity from the Icb3rg.ahead trojan, and dares the creators of said malware to try and bring them down.
- danglerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18"Have you ever heard of digg?"
No....hmmm - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Don't confuse WordPress.ORG (the software you can download to host your own blog) with WordPress.COM (the multi-user site where anybody can setup a blog).
- photomatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Our free hosting is on the same grid (hundreds of servers) that our VIPs are, so whether you're free or VIP your site still won't ever go down due to increased traffic. When Anousheh Ansari went to space her blog was on WP.com, and it got Dugg, Slashdotted, BBCed, Farked, and Yahooed within hours of each other, it was fine.
- wcasey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I'm pretty sure the "Digg support" button submits the page to digg then just crashes your site automatically to save time.
- photomatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15We're very aggressive about keeping splogs off of WordPress.com, if you ever see one just use the anonymous contact form linked in the footer and someone will look at it within minutes.
- hipnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13That's not necessarily true. The reason you see so many dead Wordpress sites is that Wordpress is popular, not that it's inherently flawed. The real culprit is generally poor hosting plans. People are on shared servers that can't handle the traffic. But your average Joe also can't afford to pay $150 a month on his hobby site just in case he happens to get Dugg or Farked, or Slashdotted, etc.
Configure Wordpress with some intelligent caching options on a decent host and it does fine. - jasnmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14"Bury any posts from a site that's sucking up to viewers with a "Digg this!" button."
You would be blocking a lot of high quality large sites too then. - ketsugi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9nreynolds, you seem to have difficulty distinguishing between WordPress (the open source blogging platform) and WordPress.com, the blog hosting solution. The WP database error pages we've seen from dugg pages do not ever come from wp.com.
- spiderland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Blog posts aren't bad if they present original content.
Unfortunately, 99% of stuff from blog (and blog-like) sites are merely paraphrase/click-through adsense spam. This not only adds to the millions of dupes out there, but also presents a very cursory overview of the actual material. Please link to the source, folks.
Personally, I think Digg should update its submission code to do source link detection and have another warning screen to the user regarding that. - shifty2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11if you are willing to shell out $250/month in hosting, then yes, they claim to be digg proof.
http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/
scroll down to the bottom...
think about it... free hosting thats digg proof? - EdiciusTsaf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Too many people don't realize there is a difference between WP COM and ORG....
Makes me think that perhaps for many people stupid Blog posts that just relink the source are difficult enough to read and understand...
And then this features is supposed to support Digg by making it easier for the readers of the goddamn Blog to digg the article that must be there before!! This is no auto-to-digg-posting utility
Besides: Lifehacker.com IS a Blog. It has some of those "Digg it" Buttons:
http://digg.com/software/Add_music_and_movies_to_your_iPod_from_any_computer_without_iTunes
1788 diggs after a little over 2 days can't be that crappy... - maxxx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I have been waiting for this for a long time now.
This is one hellofa feature from WordPress.com.
Thanks! - psilanthropist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Right, I'm going to abuse the comment system to say something of vital importance. there is a difference between wordpress.COM and a blog hosted somewhere that uses the wordpress blogging software. wordpress.com is similar to blogger with preconfigured and hosted free blogs.
THEY NEVER GO DOWN. yeah thats a challenge. go ahead, try it. I have a wordpress.com blog and have been dugg 3-4 times. Never went down.
This is actually very good for digg as wordpress.COM is the only blogging service out there which does NOT allow Ads. And is very strict in its elimination of splogs. - jasnmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Was Wordpress.com stripping out JavaScript from postings before?"
Yes - cavemonkey50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The problem is hosting. For every down WordPress site there are which survived it. You just don't know most of the time since WordPress is meant to be transparent. I know my blog has been on Digg several times and each time I survived. You just have to purchase good hosting if you care about your site, not some crappy shared plan.
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6No your not going to get 20,000 views in order to cash out at meta cafe, no stop spamming digg.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5good for them.
btw. i nivir mispil - analytik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Uhm, have you ever heard of Scobleizer? Which got dugg (and everything else) couple of times? Hosted on wordpress.com. And I've never had any trouble accessing any blog there.
Come on people, do you really think that few thousands requests can put whole wp.com server farm down? Think again. - ketsugi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Did you miss the part where this is implemented in WordPress.com?
- brentroos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Nice feature. Glad Matt has added this.
- hakomasong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The amount of negativity is here is ridiculous. Wordpress.com users couldn't put digg buttons on their posts at all prior to this. Now if someone wants to, they can copy a bit of code and insert it into the post. This is good for Digg - more than 700k blogs worth of mostly original content can now be dugg. ...WP.com is not full of spammers - in fact I've never seen a single spammer using the service.
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10great... here comes the spam.
- bigern75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5oh hell, why didnt i notice it was .com, crap
- engtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do a google search for wp-cache.
There are plugin/techniques you can use to reduce the server load on the dugg page even if you are running self-hosted wordpress. - engtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wordpress.com is different than Wordpress. It's like Blogger.
and photomatt is the guy who created Wordpress. - jschuur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The real issue is requiring you to submit something before you can add the button. That is going to drive up the number of upcoming stories.
At least it's not a simple 'Make this story diggable' checkbox, which (shameless self promotion), I implemented on my own blog using Movable Type and the RightFields plugin:
http://dearest.cope.rnic.us/2007/02/11/selectively-add-digg-buttons - TheDude77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How nice for you?
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why is it that spam like this includes no punctuation, poor grammar, and things like HAHA and LOLOLOL? I mean, only an idiot would click on...
Nevermind. Answered my own question. - LucidMovement, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks for the tips. :)
- solzeyejewels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I actually moved my blog The Church of The Great Oval, from blogger to wordpress recently because Blogger crashed on me so much when my traffic went up on the weekends, due to my weekly Astro Predictions on NASCAR races. I have also had tons of issues with blog thieves (sploggers) at Blogger.
I am not seeing near the copyright violations since I moved to wordpress. True, I won't say they are infallible, but they are very aggressive when you report a splogger. I am unbelievably happy with wordpress. I would like to have a little more creative liscence with my blog template, but it is saving me a ton of hassle.
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churchofthegreatoval.wordpress.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@frank...
it says, "note to self" not "note to the author"... the title says "suspport" instead of support. - timthefoolman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There was no EASY way to do this. I had manually put DIGG buttons in my posts for a couple of weeks. It was a pain, and I was copy/pasting blocks of code to do it, but it worked. - Tim
- EdiciusTsaf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Just install this plugin.
http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/digg-this-wordpress-plugin/
And by the way, ever heard of google? - Naturalfix023, on 09/28/2009, -0/+1About time im a huge wordpress user.
Deep Quotes
http://deepquotes.info - gettothechoppa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2OK, this feature completely rocks.
- k8cpa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ooops it ate my code...
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===[digg=http://digg.com/some_article]
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if you add this code above, the button will go all the way to the left. Problem is, you cannot wrap the text around it... :( I'm sure they'll figure out something - laurensweet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very cool! WordPress is great ... thank you Matt!
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http://www.joomlayo.com - mam4q123, on 02/14/2009, -0/+0Wordpress is matching with Digg.
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