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- sbader, on 05/07/2008, -3/+95The upcoming section needs help. I'm not sure what it needs but browsing it is slowly becoming more and more overwhelming. If i browse by most popular I have to go through about 20 pages of stuff before i get to articles with 30 or 20 some diggs. Which i think makes the upcoming section more dependent on large friends networks which makes it harder for users with small friends list to get past 20 diggs and for it to get seen by people who don't have you befriended.
- Scigrex14, on 05/07/2008, -4/+19In addressing this issue, I think maybe digg should be split three ways, upcoming section, some mid range section that has articles with between 10 and 80 diggs, and the front page. This would allow users to better promote stories and keep us from going through pages of upcoming stories to find the good ones.
- wrathchilde, on 05/07/2008, -2/+2Excellent suggestion
- ataylor32, on 05/07/2008, -2/+4Amen to that. All I ever look at in the upcoming section are the "hot" stories on the right
- GeekyGerge, on 05/07/2008, -2/+27Totally. I often submit stories (Granted, they may or may not be of interest to everyone) and I hit a barrier with the amount of Diggs I can get. But because I don't want to "cheat" the system by adding hundreds of friends or sending out masses of shout spam, the stories go nowhere and die.
- chrisaug18, on 05/07/2008, -2/+4Me too, I mean how many real friends are on your list and how many are just "friends"...
- inactive, on 05/07/2008, -2/+3At the top of every article there is a summary of who Dugg your story called "Who Dugg or Blogged it?" and it is again separated out by "myfriends" and "all diggers". It isn't perfect but it is something.
- chrisaug18, on 05/07/2008, -2/+4Me too, I mean how many real friends are on your list and how many are just "friends"...
- inactive, on 05/07/2008, -4/+1That is why there is an area for what is Popular....it is called "Hot". The Upcoming is going to be effected by time in the queue and how many friends you have. The reason why you have to go in twenty pages is because it takes that amount of time for folks to get to see the story and age, as well as for friends to read their shouts and Digg a story....there probably isn't much that can be done about that.
- NiteShdw, on 05/11/2008, -1/+3One problem is that the stories that become popular do so because the poster has a large group of friends that see the submission and Digg it up (and their friends do as well). Anyone who doesn't have a large group of friends (passive users), will never have any submission make it to the front page. None of my submissions have gotten more then 12 diggs.
I also rarely go through the Upcoming section because it's so incredibly painful to do so. If I do, I use the BigSpy Flash application to watch the upcoming stories as they are Dugg. That is a much better way to see which upcoming stories are becoming popular. - laddr, on 05/12/2008, -1/+1I completely agree. I think the answer is to make it much easier for the casual digg user to contribute and vote on upcoming stories. The best way to do that imho is to have a small upcoming stories section on the front page, or even insert them randomly among the real front page stories. Let people turn them off in their profile settings if they want. But this will allow a diverse population of true digg readers (not people digging one article to push an agenda) to heavily contribute to what shows up on the front page.
- Scigrex14, on 05/07/2008, -4/+19In addressing this issue, I think maybe digg should be split three ways, upcoming section, some mid range section that has articles with between 10 and 80 diggs, and the front page. This would allow users to better promote stories and keep us from going through pages of upcoming stories to find the good ones.
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