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- Roger, on 10/17/2007, -6/+288Funny how one guy can do in hours what the digg team hasn't been able to in months.
- Toniee, on 10/17/2007, -13/+282nice, DIGG legal will get you ! lol
- ApplCmptrDood, on 10/10/2007, -2/+213I assume this uses the Digg API? If so, great work. If not, it's still awesome for a fix until digg finally makes the pictures section live.
- pkrumins, on 10/30/2007, -2/+181Hi, I am the one who created the site! Yeah, it uses Digg API to monitor the front page and it used API to scrape one month of data for initial content.
I detalied the whole process of development in great detail at my blog:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/designing-digg-picture-website
And I am releasing full source code which generates the site:
http://www.catonmat.net/download/digg.picture.website.generator.digpicz.zip
Have fun! :) - Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+90He shows how he did it too.
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/designing-digg-picture-website
Prob worth digging on its own - vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+82That looks so good, it's almost perfect!
When DIGG's picture category goes live, I trust it'll be a "crown jewel". - ilkeryoldas, on 10/10/2007, -19/+90at least it allows us to filter out the lolcats - digg is NOT fark!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+62Well, he left out the second 'g'.
- gamerzworld, on 10/10/2007, -0/+58Now all we need is digcommentz.com and we will be set!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+55What makes you think the Digg team is working on a pics section at all? They look like sitting on a couch tasting beers to me.
- themanmachine, on 10/10/2007, -4/+48digg is so ***** stupid for not having one yet... no offense.
- nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -2/+46but uh... it says "dig" not "digg"... how could anyone possibly confuse the two!?!?!!?!!?!?
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -38/+81I don't respect anything that is spelled with a "z" at the end of it, like "picz". I don't care if "pics" was already taken, I wouldn't have used that variation. >
- ChrisML, on 10/10/2007, -2/+40nice work.. digg perhaps this will get your ass moving a bit faster on the pics section?
- m3mn0n, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33They take WAAAY too long to do updates. I don't care what the reason is, but something needs to be done about it.
- SlamShut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25What about this?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094288/ - funknjunk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27Interesting though i think the thumbnail kinda kills the suspense
- Mearn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24They'll take the extra time to add those pointless features, and the pages wil all take an hour to load while freezing up your browser.
- Fracture98, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26And for that, I salute them.
- Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27I smell what you did there.
- joegibes, on 10/10/2007, -10/+32But lolcats are the funniest cats of all!
- resplence, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19The digg team is too busy trying to come up with the worst comment system on the entire internet.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Ya, because I hear that letter z likes to rape children when they are asleep, better watch out for those sneaky bastards.
- EnderMB, on 10/10/2007, -8/+24There's no way they'll get sued for this one. This is harmless use of the API used for the benefit of the members. If Digg are going to sue over this then there's something pretty ***** up going on behind the scenes.
Brilliant site. Whilst I couldn't really care about an image section as such (only to keep images out of the news) it'll be great for many of the users on this site. - kevcowiffle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Check that date of birth... Peter Bonerz is 69 years old. It was like the planets had aligned the moment I realized that.
- MrSketch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Wasted his time? Obviously you're not a geek. I'm sure he did this purely for the fun and experience of it.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Finally someone else says it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+23Go to hell. Make a website and give it the domain that you want. Who the hell want your respect or does care about it? This guys made an excellent work there.
- mercurysquad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14And this guy made it over a cup of coffee. I don't understand how a company with several programmers would take this long (their current estimate is October) to whip up a pictures section, even taking into account that they need to be extra careful to create "enterprise class" code. There simply is no excuse. I bet digg has its share of moron managers.
- borninda818, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15NSFW section?
- zabouth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13now all we need is a grease monkey script to integrate that into digg
- saurdo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Obviously it took me longer than diggs edit time to realize this, but the site allows you to view its source code. Which is an instant digg from me!
- GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Laughing Out Loud© Brand Cat-Based Image Macro, LLC
- db113456, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13well done, will look at your code. One small feature, the number of comments is missing, otherwise it looks and works very well ...
- computergod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Digg is user generated content. Digg users badly want a separate section for pics, if digg isn't giving ussers what they want then you have to expect this sort of thing.
- DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Frankly I would like a better comment system that the pic, it almost pisses me off every time I go to a popular story and the browser crashes for a few seconds... How can anyone use Digg like this??
- EvilFerret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm no law expert, but I have the basic understanding of why C&D requests are sent... However in this case I don't think it would be warranted unless they wanted to be *****. I don't think the Digg crew would be stupid enough to shut this one down. If DigPics became massive and Digg.com thought it was cutting into their revenue even after their official pic section came up.....I could see them getting upset about it.
Overall....Good job. - thetron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Instead of suing this guy digg. Give him a job @ Digg.com
- KillTheRhythm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I think you missed the point.
- serra, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Still comes up for me.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12Do you have your own brain? Or is that the PR guy at Digg speaking?
- podgey22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Perhaps they could send a cheque and buy it instead of smothering his good work with a legal-pillow?
By all means kill off the things that harm your name but don't punish those that do good work. - Amplix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Maybe so... like another digger commented above, this guy achieved this in a very short amount of time while the code monkeys at Digg have been beating around the bush.
To the said code monkeys: Babysteps.. release something simple yet intuitive, gather feedback and continue building upon THAT. - vudicarus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9i think using the name "digpicz" will be frowned upon. I use a site that used to be called "diggfeed". The owner had to change the name. (it's now piggfeed). i don't know if one less "g" in the name will make a difference, but the look of the site and the logo font is the same.
- kjcdude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7So disney will come after him. I'd take Digg over DIG (Disney Internet Group)
- bittermang, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6When you want something done right, do it yourself.
Good job. Very pimp. - SpyDerMann, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7That'd be an awesome pic to post on digg's picture section. Oh, wait...
- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Now all we need is a GreaseMonkey script that will add a Digpicz link into digg... lol
Or why not just add this function to Digg NOW?... clearly it's possible. - sldSquirrel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6While I did not originally support a "Pictures" section, this is really well done and it would fit well now that the frontpage is home to more than just news stories.
- theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7"...1000's a pictures or people's cats."
Perhaps if you rewrite that in some kind of language that can be parsed without the use of LSD, your comment will get dugg by someone. -
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