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- manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ilyag - the fact that just about the only comments I choose to see (3-5) are intelligent, informative, and well thought out is the reason why I still prefer reading ./'s comments to Digg's comments on the same story - Digg may have the stories first, but Slashdot is where people intelligently discuss it.
And I found the RSA-640 story to be one of the most interesting science news articles I've read today. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2mancat: I believe the current format and nested comments should be avaiable for users to choose. A link at the top saying "switch format" should be implemented, to allow users to choose between "Digg classic comment format" and "Digg retro threaded format" or something like that.
- ForumTroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What is with the Digg vs. Slashdot stories? Anyone with any form of intelligence doesn't give a *****. Lots of people like Slashdot and lots of people like Digg; neither one is going anywhere anytime soon. All the people that read Slashdot are not going to stop reading it and come here simply because it gets more hits according to Alexa.... I somewhat enjoy both sites, but at least Slashdot doesn’t have idiotic stories like this on a continuous basis. I imagine this story, like the other Digg vs. Slashdot stories, will also have hundreds of idiots digging it too to keep it on the front page. The target audiences are not the same and both sites can and will co-exist.
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You’re a moron. The Slashdot stories you complained about in your comments are the exact reason that so many people like Slashdot. Those are in depth technical articles that are read by people who are very much interested in computers and technology. The comments that are on those stories can also be very insightful as they’re often written by professionals in their respective fields. For example, the C obfuscated code contest story is very interesting to those of us that actually program for a living. Just because you’re too dumb to understand a story doesn’t give you the right to insult it and claim that nobody is interested in it. It’s ok though stick to your basic CSS tutorials because you’re too stupid to learn anything more complicated. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, thats right. That one user reminded me maybe instead of making a video section for digg, kevin could have thought a better improvement like say.... THREADED COMMENTS?
i mean it's not like it's hard to code or anything... - pashdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only thing I like Slashdot for over Digg is threaded discussions.
- aaayoureweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shows you how fast the power of people can change everything on the internet.
- termal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pyrolistical wins the thread. Slashdot has nearly THREE times as many daily readers (among those who allow Alexa to track them). Sure, Digg users visit more often during a day, but as someone else noted, that's due to it's design.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Has it occured to anyone that we should be trying to keep these numbers down? Anyone who uses the Alexa toolbar is a moron. Therefore, all this is saying is that troll levels on Digg.com have nearly reached Slashdot levels.
Disclaimer: I hate Slashdot, but I'm just sayin'! - TheGooseyOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1too bad alexa ratings dont mean squat...
but, by this time next year we can all hope that slashdot will just be a faint memory, digg will be easily dominating it by then - shovel10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1slashdot again? Who would give a *****, except advertisers? Talking about the famous social software of digg then: this is really becoming spam.
- SDNick484, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Of course digg will be rising a lot faster than /. on Alexa; digg updates constantly throughout the day so people check in more frequently (whereas /. generally has less than 20 stories on the front page in one day).
A much more meaningful number is registered users:
digg has 59,299 at the time of this post (11-8-05, 10:40 PST -- http://digg.com/topusers/page1977 )
Slashdot has more than 800,000 - Soave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What happened in September that caused both pages to jump?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sdnick484:
Nope, sorry, that's not a more meaningful number. Slashdot is discussion-centric, Digg is link-centric. Over there, they sign up to participate in discussions because that's where the action is. Here, most people just come for the links (of which there are many many more) and many don't care about writing comments. - Pyrolistical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reach digg.com vs slashdot.org:
Reach per million users:
Today
Digg: 810
/.: 1,400
1 wk. Avg.
Digg: 610
/.: 1,450
3 mos. Avg.
Digg: 424
/.: 1,330
3 mos. Change
Digg: up 138%
/.: up 33%
Far from even close. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This Just in - >>> http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=12
- bvaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=slashdot.org&y=p&url=digg.com
Actually it already has! - jay314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@sdnick484:
That's probably a LESS meaningful number. I have at least two slashdot accounts I no longer know the passwords to. Because they don't let you delete your account or rename your nick, I'd bet the majority of those 800,000 accounts are inactive.
For those of you having trouble reading the graph:
1. It's a graph of PAGE RANK. Rank 1 is higher than rank 1,000
2. It's LOGARITHMIC. Makes it a little harder to read, but a Y-axis linear scale from 1 to 100,000 wouldn't be very nice.
More interesting is the "Page Views" graph.. digg beats slashdot in the last few days. Of course this information is based on people with the Alexa toolbar (read: only IE users). I don't know a single person with it installed. - rjarow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg is great, glad to see it doing so insanely well :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0zipper: Cnet gave Digg a free advert in the first week of November == the sudden jump in traffic.
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0shouldn't the 1000 be at the bottom of the graph and the 100 000 be at the top
- jay314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@soave:
I think you mean August.. either way, I'd say that's when college kids got back to school and back online. - FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Slashdot looks like crap. The user interface is horrible as well. I'm not sure if they are afraid to change the interface or that they actually think it's good.
- DardanAeneas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Not this post AGAIN! Who cares about Alexa's ranking anyway?
- FlyingAvatar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know, I can't say either of them are REALLY great.
But man, imagine a beowulf cluster of digg/slashdots!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ya ya ya, continue the slashdot tradition.
- dolby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg is going to take down /. for one reason. More people are looking for webgems to put on digg.com, then the people that are on salary for slashdot. I have posted a story and the same story and source site has found it's way on sites like engaget hours later. Digg.com puts the power in the hand of the users, and not Commander Taco to decide what is important tech news. The only downside many people (including me have posted crap stories), so we have to search to find the webgems, instead of being baby feed on slashdot. But there are some stories that is a digg to one person and not the other. And the idea on interactive news is a groundbreaking idea. They should try this in other feilds of news, no matter what comes out of this digg will still be number one!!! Keep digging.
www.diggfans.com - SDNick484, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ilyag, I disagree, people here are motivated to log in for multiple reasons:
You must log in to submit stories
You must log in to "vote" on stories to bring them to the front
You must log in to comment
Storries which are dugg are "bookmarked" in your profile
Slashdot doesn't require you to log in to make comments (unlike here) or to read comments (like here). Slashdot actually has a large lurker crowd (as does here I'm sure). - databyss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Posts like this make me sad to be associated with digg.
Digg is link fodder, /. is inter-meat and web-potatoes. - zipper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually it already has!
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Something seems fishy with the huge jump in first week of november.. - ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0read this
http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=12
What do you call software that tracks and reports internet usage. All together now class: "SPYWARE"
The 188 people who have dugg this thus far just showed their asses. - manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What Slashdot really has going for it is its comment system - something Digg might benefit a lot from. Threading comments instead of having to scroll up to see what's being responded to, and I think that the slashdot's karma system would greatly benefit Digg's comments, too - bury the flames and "cool! +digg" comments beneath actual discussion. Digg's stories may be user-moderated, but the comments sure as hell aren't.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What matters is the quality.
- BigPoppaT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's interesting - there aren't many stories on /. that go 'yea /.!' but it seems like there are way too many 'yea digg!' stories over here. Who cares? Is your life more meaningful if Digg gets more hits than /.? (More hits from spyware users, even.)
Both sites are good in different ways. I actually expect Digg to catch up to /. eventually, because /. is generally oriented towards real technical people, and Digg is easier for fanboys - they can just see Linux/Apple/Google/Firefox in the title and 'Digg it' without understanding it or discussing it. There are a lot more fanboys than techs in the world. Hey, maybe that explains the 'yea Digg!' affect!
Don't get me wrong - I love Digg, and it has a lot of great links, but there is no competition between the two sites - some overlap, sure, but they really serve different purposes. - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nah no way....digg is having massive server problems where slashdot never has any...I am turning more and more to slashdot now a days with digg down for hours every day.
- Xinex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Traffic != quality
- jmz668, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dolby, you're a moron
- ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Please post a note here if you actually have the Alexa toolbar installed? -72 cool points for anyone who does.
All this means is that there are almost as many poser techies who are dumb enough to install malware on their own computers on digg as there are on slashdot. Not something you want to brag about, me thinks. - ReyBrujo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Talk about fanboys.
- pupppet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The slashdot penis envy continues.
- Stentorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I must be an idiot, I can't make sense of that graph..it goes from 100,000 to 10,000 and than 1,000..somewhere in those numbers is an abbrevation for 1 million, damned if I can decipher it.
- znxster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0nice comparison but do we really care?
- unitedstatians, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0i predicted this like 12 days ago
http://digg.com/links/its_official_digg.com_superior_then_slashdot.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Slashdot is a ***** website for a bunch of narrow-minded nerds. Their news items range from gems like "RSA-640 Factored" to "Winners of the 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest" and they wonder why more and more people prefer Digg.
Oh, and let's not forget their Linux circle jerks.
Just about the only good thing about Slashdot is that the discussions occasionally have intelligent people posting well-thought-out opinions. Everything else about the site is crap. - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1There is no contest. Digg is like a Tonka Truck compared to the Bigfoot that is Slashdot. This place doesn't even have nested comments.
- MightyMik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Lame.The 'noise' level is much higher on Digg. Gee...go pat yourselves on the back...
- mike_douglas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Alexa, the spyware people. This just shows that Digg will soon pass Slashdot is stupid, Windows users.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I don't like having to filter through crappy comments.
- dragoonz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0ForumTroll, well done.
- MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0hmm this is cool!
- evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0***** alexa who uses there toolbar anyway
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