What is Digg?50 Comments
- BushCheney08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Translation: More technologically unsavvy people browse digg using IE with a spyware toolbar program installed than browse slashdot.
- nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's why I said "according to Alexa" in the description. Some would say Digg passed /. a while ago. At least now there's some sort of proof.
- nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since it's my article and I know I'll take a lot of hits from all you flamers out there, I'll post this myself:
"Some Important Disclaimers
The traffic data are based on the set of Alexa users, which may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population. Known biases include (but are likely not limited to) the following:
* Our users are disproportionately likely to visit alexa.com, amazon.com and archive.org, and traffic to these sites may be substantially overcounted.
* The Alexa Toolbar works only with the Internet Explorer browser. Sites frequented mainly by users of other browsers will be undercounted. For example, the AOL/Netscape browser is not supported, which means that Alexa collects little data from AOL users, and our traffic to aol.com is likely lower than it would be for a more representative sample.
* The Alexa Toolbar works only on Windows operating systems. Although a large majority of the Internet population currently used Windows, traffic to any sites which are disproportionately visited by users of other operating systems will be undercounted.
* The rate of adoption of Alexa software in different parts of the world may vary widely due to advertising locality, language, and other geographic and cultural factors. For example, to some extent the prominence of Korean sites among our top-ranked sites reflects known high rates of general Internet usage in South Korea, but there may also be a disproportionate number of Korean Alexa users.
* In some cases traffic data may also be adversely affected by our "site" definitions. With tens of millions of hosts on the Internet, our automated procedures for determining which hosts are serving the "same" content may be incorrect and/or out-of-date. Similarly, the determinations of domains and home pages may not always be accurate. When these determinations change (as they do periodically), there may be sudden artificial changes in the Alexa traffic rankings for some sites as a consequence.
* The Alexa Toolbar turns itself off on secure pages (https:). Sites with secure page views will be under-represented in the Alexa traffic data." - BitSlicer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It makes sense for two good reasons. 1) Less clutter, it is more Google-like. No images to distract from the stories. 2) There are more stories that I click thru to view. Digg seems to be more interesting articles.
- dolby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love digg.com. just like a fat kid loves cake.
- spinesplitter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this isnt kool at all, if its true and by that i mean i agree with lazydesert, slashdotters dont use IE
- weirdal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who actually uses that toolbar anyway?
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So... more people visit Digg with the Alexa Toolbar than Slashdot?
- billflu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't like SlashDot's set-up. I like the ranking that digg has more because I don't have to sort through the unimportant stories myself... although here's a cool one that slipped through the cracks...
http://www.digg.com/links/Quit_job_Travel_the_world_Dance_ - Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0omg, you are such a tool.
It happened when i posted it, you are SOOOOOO stupid. You serisouly think that I PREDICTED that it would happen and posted a story with a title that was FALSE that i expected to become true?
just think for a milisecond, this story it a dupe, it doesn't matter that it is a dupe but I was just pointing it out for reference and now you had to go and be an idiot. - BlackPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Booyah!
- speel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0HELL YEA GO DIGG!324567890645
- alexanderhazard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0holy November batman!
- Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha it was true when i posted it, nice try
- Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no wait, you are right, you caught me.
I am so amazing at predicing the alexa traffic rankings that i posted the link 3 days ahead of time in hopes that i could then post my link and brag "dupe"
boy am I embarrassed - AETAaAS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Go DIGG! ^^
- Biohacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I really like Digg.com. I am no longer using slashdot, you got me converted here, good job guys.
- nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry - good link - http://diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/digg-now-hiring.html
- nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^Singee15 -
The distance between each month on the chart is 2.75
November has 30 days, therefore the distance between each day is 0.091666666666666666666666666666667
If you measure backwards from the point at which Digg surpassed /., you will notice that it has been 1 day (yesterday)
Q.E.D. - You are an idiot. - nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0P.S. If the Digg owners (http://diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/digg-now-hiring.html) use Alexa as a scale, it can't be all that bad.
- capajc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too many digg posts lately comparing it to Slashdot. That's not news.
- Dispersion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nerd Jihad.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nerd Jihad.
lol. - bones_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Slashdot SUCKS, long live DIGG!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No matter which site gets more hits, does anyone really give a rat's ass?
- digg - Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0not only that, but my story made it to the homepage! notice the number of digg's
you think that many people would digg it when the graph wasn't true?
You - are a tool and an idiot - adrianguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would agree toolbars are lame, but Digg is a force to be reckoned with and slashdot needs to re-evaluate its story dissemination methods. I read /. after I doing my Diggs.
- generalLEE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Slash dot is getting old and boring. Digg would suck too if it only had a handful of contributors.
- jman420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I really and truly like both.
- tgraham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sites, like this, need to concentrate on their own lives, and futures, rather than worrying about supposed competition. The internet - the great humbler - does not reward the arrogant, or the tired. Slashdot is neither, and continues to grow.
Digg has without doubt established itself as an online presence, but still has a long way to go to gain the notoriety, or the status, of sites such as slashdot. - dyslexicsUNTIED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if you notice, Digg.com has been going up constantly while slashdot has made a very slight, continuous drop
- Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mine was "dupe" but none the less, good job modders
- eschatonik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DIGG modders have spoken: This story is lame. Burninated off the homepage in 5 minutes. Hahahahahaha! God bless the "ok this is lame" dropdown!
- jman420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0However, I must add that I really hate the font on slashdot, as well as the overall design.
- step, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nerd Jihad. loool. Genius.
really, a simple fact that made me follow digg news: The design.
Digg is light, friendly, user-oriented, overall "nice".
Slashodot spells "old-geek" to me. Crammed with heavy text, no white spaces. I can't read it for more than 10 seconds. - Tufriast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sorry, but as a loyal Slashdot fan as well, I cannot state I am satisfied by the content here on Digg.com to acknowledge the Alexa traffic. If you use Winblows, it counts with Alexa. Using Alexa is akin to using a penis to measure temprature. It only works some of the time, and once in a while, you get a false reading. (There are some freaky ***** out there.)
If we want a real traffic ranking, we should be using some other method. - rebug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Slashdot stories about digg: 0
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=&query=digg&author=&sort=1&op=stories
Digg stories about slashdot: One a day. - microstuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's stupid to compare /. to digg. Two different animals, serving different types of users. I use both /. and digg.
i guess there are a lot of immature kids here. - ReyBrujo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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> You're such a ***** dumbass.
Hitted a nerve there :-P
> I don't like SlashDot's set-up. I like the ranking that digg has more
> because I don't have to sort through the unimportant stories myself...
The problem is that this place smells too hard of fanboys. If an article has the "digg" word in its title, it will likely be voted. That is useful for fanboys, but not for common users.
In the last two days, three stories that are just hype hit the homepage:
* Torrent Spy has stole the digg news style
* DiggTree: A new way to view Digg
* digg GMAIL Skin !!!
Of course, fanboys will never accept being called fanboys. That is part of the definition of fanboy ;-) - nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0^^Singee15
Considering this wasn't true until yesterday... - TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"That is because Slashdot readers have a life and go out on weekends, while Digg nerds cannot talk with a girl without a 133t nick and a messenger."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You're such a ***** dumbass. - cuntface, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0***** turbonerds at slashchinkdot should ***** program a cliff to jump off of, *****.
- lastthingusee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Only a matter of time
- ReyBrujo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That is because Slashdot readers have a life and go out on weekends, while Digg nerds cannot talk with a girl without a 133t nick and a messenger.
Also, look! Digg is nicking Yahoo! http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=640&h=480&r=3m&y=p&u=yahoo.com/&u=digg.com
Come back when you have a true story. - Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://digg.com/links/Digg_Passes_Slashdot_
Just 4 days too late - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://digg.com/links/Maddox_s_website_now_bigger_than_McDonald_s,_Pepsi,_and_Subway
- Kamikid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1slashdot sucks really, it blows.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This just in, My pecker is 15 inches long. Get that to the front page?
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Die /. DIE!
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