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- SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Wow. Now 12-year-old AOL'ers can bitch about everything on the Internet instead of just the game they currently suck at. You win, Internet. I surrender.
- macman81, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Now, how many 13 year olds use digg.com again?
When will people grow up, I ask myself. When will they grow up? - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Wow, that was fun for about 10 seconds, until ***** kept posting dick-sucking pictures.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It was nice, but I wonder if anyone thought of something like this:
Have a custom tag, like [irc server="irc.freenode.net" channel="#blah"]. Put that within your HEAD tags if your website has its own IRC channel. Then a firefox plugin, kinda like that one where the channel opens as a bar on the bottom of the browser, becomes available. Except where that one failed by having all data go through its own server first, this is just a straight IRC client, that connects to the "real" channel with people in it. Yes the website owner would have to add that tag, but at least they have choice. Just my idea I've had for a while. If I knew how to modify chatzilla (simplify it), and make it as a bar down there that appears when the [irc...] code is present, i'd make it! - Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7seems to have died...
Diggs motto should be:
"Digg. Destroying the internet, one web page at a time." - bigdoug2005, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yeah, I love how some sites identify opera as an "ancient browser that I need to upgrade" More sites need opera support!
- hellsyeah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8If you think that is cool, you should download the yakalike extension for firefox, which does the same exact thing without having to visit another site and will run in the bottom of your browser. All you have to do is turn yakalike on/off from the tools menu. You don't need to set up a user account by the way, you can just use a temp nickname if you prefer.
http://www.yakalike.com/ - CLucas916, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Very cool idea.. Digg
- Prod1gy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I get on this thing, and what a small world. My friend Matthew is on it, which we haven't talked in a long while, and we realize who each other is. digg+ for uniting lost friends!
- mtvkilledusall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wish it had wider support.
- svtpete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You know izzie, if you used the sessionsaver extension you'd get all those tabs back when you restarted firefox - it's a lifesaver sometimes.
- raremage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's an interesting idea, but there are a couple major issues. First, as just about everyone else points out, allowing HTML is a bad decision. The porn was bad, but once someone gets it together and starts posting exploit code, that will be worse.
Second, unless I completely am mis-guessing the architecture, effectively they are asking everyone surfing the web to effectively proxy thru them if they continue to grow. Now it is cool to build something that scales out well, but how wide can you realistically get?
And finally, there are all sorts of privacy concerns I can see popping up on this - what happens to the data? Should I have an expectation of privacy here? How are you handling these questions?
Overall it is a very cool idea - I but think it needs a bit more "engineering". Well worth a digg though! - danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is awesome. So how can I just embed that in a site without having to use their servers?
- techware, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I thought AJAX was a cleaning compound? ;)
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Thank god i can block your dumb ass from digg
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5might be a good idea to strip html tags.. considering I just saw some gay porn fly by
- kolavar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm pretty sure the gabbly.com web server is now on fire. There will be downtime while the network administrators rip their hair out.
And kudos for allowing image tags, I love looking at goatse. - aj1215, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4digg effect already?
- Pas3n7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Does it hurt to be that cool?
- davidv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4everyone should join the digg.com channel in the gabbly chat.... *hint* *hint**
- funbags, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7IRC Called, they want their chat back.
- VaginalBelch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well that little adventure went south pretty quick..
There is no need to allow any HTML except basic tags. Embed, images, javascript. These are all on, which many of already know, and for those of you young kids who've never met goatse, well, now you sleep a little less easily. - esangaline, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Cool idea, but seems useless unless it was more widely used. I just went to google.com and I was the only one there. If I'm on a more obscure website then there will be just about nobody. I dugg this anyway though because I find it to be an interesting idea.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw it was rather slow too.
- cohman2001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4cool! works in ie7!
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, except Chatsum is doing the same thing, and their software is better. On top of that, this idea has been tried DOZENS of times by other people/companies. The idea has never taken off. It's amazing people keep trying to do this.
Listen, if I want to chat online, I'll go jump on IRC... or I'll go to Yahoo chat, whatever. I don't need a chat box screwing with my web surfing experience.
And I certainly don't need 12 year olds posting dick-sucking pictures in the channel every 5 god damn seconds. - ditoa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember an old IM client called Gooey that did this years ago (albeit not AJAX based). It was like ICQ (when ICQ was the #1) and every website had its own "group" as such which was automatically created when you went to the site. It was cool as it would show the webpage you went to next, etc so you could follow people to other interesting sites. Dunno what happened to it though as there is very little on Google about it now.
- aspro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm not sure this is an particularly good idea, I mean when you visit a website most of the time you are only on it for a short period of time, or you are actually reading the page. Neither of which gives you time to idle on a page unil someone shows up. Add to that many bigger websites have forums or an IRC channel and this service is next to useless.
- nahdan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3in about 10 years.
- kingkool68, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was kool, except don't try and enter your login and passwords to sites. Such an awesome idea.
- Crossmenjeff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i loved it. hit up Microsoft and apple. more apple fans on digg, no biggie. It could be an effective way to eliminate the need for a chat room on my site, if i can run a continuous chat through gabbly, i wouldn't need aim or yahoo. everyone could just rally at my site.
- thenorwegian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2wow that was so annoying. the only good thing about it was this:
http://www.virtuagirl2.com/data/global/home/anim_home_4stars.gif
and the fact that I got to talk to "Bill Gates" and "Steve Jobs." - edto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2no one on gabbly.com/digg :(
- Arkitan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is cool, didn't google toolbar have something like this a while back, a discuss button or something, I'm not sure. It is neat, but I prefer talking about websites in a forum style rather than chat style.
- JakeMcMahon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You spacker.
- BryanTheCrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1digg++ For the origional idea and a nice way to implement it. Still rather buggy, but has potential...
- norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2there is a serious idiotfest going on in there
- metalrock76, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It shouldn't allow HTML.
- Warpling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2sounds like a door bell being hit over and over and over again, with people changing names faster than they can type, and more grey console text and actual words
- GeneralBison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My firefox didn't crash.
One of THE coolest things I've seen on Digg in the past month. A+++ - wandog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Def cool technology. Seems to me this type of thing would be much better built into a browser (firefox plugin) than a webpage. Nobody will have the patience to do this for every site they go to. However I'll still be hangin at my new fav site: http://www.tenbills.com
- superdigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ohh ajax, what will you do next?
- junh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1found the reason that gabbly.com downed
- Marcanthony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2crashes firefox and maxthon now...
- hiteck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is Firefox 1.5 compatible.
- neoform, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Yeah, it's so cool it crashed firefox mid load. :|
- Marcanthony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hey it's not protected against spam or nick change... big old wild west anyone?
- littlewhitey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone can use anyone else's nick at the same time - there were about 20 Danny's in the gabbly.com one
- deluxndotcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3HUGE potential! Really neat use of Ajax.
- callumj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People probably got bored with it, just like they will with this.
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