What is Digg?903 Comments
- Luigi239, on 10/11/2007, -26/+909Commenting is the one thing Digg should steal from reddit...
*runs away* - untitlednet, on 10/11/2007, -30/+700made u click :P
- anarchytv, on 10/11/2007, -16/+383If you use the system for a signifigant amount of time, you realize there are bugs in it.
1. Posting a comment, puts your comment in some random order in the middle of the page, instead of appending it at the end (or at the top?)
2. You see this a lot: comments that end up on the wrong page. There is some bug, where if you open tons of tabs of comments on articles, like in Firefox or IE, and then go to one to post a comment, it will ask you to login, or something, or you do so, and when you press submit, your comment ends up on the topic of the last tab you opened (or some such thing). The best you can do is quickly edit it, and change it to something triffling or relevant, if you can type that fast.
3. There's a bug, that if you go to post a comment, and it requests you to enter your login and password, and you do so, instead of taking you back to the same page to continue posting your comment, it takes you to some top news page. You have to go BACK three times past the login screens to arrive at the original comment entry field, but you are now logged in.
4. The amount of time to edit a comment is not adequate... the timer function should be done away with, and an indefinate amount of time should be allowed. .e... you can go back to your posted comments, and correct them, or retract them even.
5. There are others that I have noticed, but I'm not getting paid to be a beta tester, so I'm not going to bother futher writing them out. - Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -3/+193My primary concern:
If I want to see if anyone has replied to any comments I've made (since Digg doesn't notify you via email of replies to your comments), I used to revisit the articles I commented on, then use the search function in the browser to search for my username. That is impossible with this system.
As such, the conversational nature of Digg, while vague and haphazard in the past, is now completely missing. This makes us all more obviously just a bunch of idiots shouting into the void, and I hate having that pointed out to me. At least before we were a bunch of idiots shouting at each other in the void. Can't even do that now. - lkv87, on 10/11/2007, -10/+172at least hiding the replies stops people from replying to the first post just to get noticed...
>> - mrfunkeye, on 10/11/2007, -9/+149I keep repeating myself: File a bugreport like I did. If all users do, they'll have to listen!
http://digg.com/bugreport - jwolcott, on 10/11/2007, -11/+151*****, I hate this.
- Luigi239, on 10/11/2007, -1/+115Editing should not be for more then 120sec, because if somebody is replying to a comment and the poster edits the comment being replied to 20 min. later, that means that the replies may not make sense, and people may want to re-rate it. Deleting would brake the entire replying/threading system.
- paulmike3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+109Sorry for the comment abuse, but who knows if my comment will ever be read if it's somewhere else. It will most likely be at least 3 or 4 slow clicks from ever being read.
The biggest problem I see with the new system is the lack of ability to find your own or your friends comments, when you return to a story. It took be five minutes to find dburka's comments in the initial "new comment system" thread, and I went back to re-read my comments on a story from 3 days ago, and I couldn't even locate them, because the page was loading so slow, and they were buried in the middle somewhere (despite a significant number of +diggs). That, to me is just unacceptable. It discourages commenting altogether, since they will never be seen or found, once the threads get long.
I'm no programmer, so I can offer no suggestions for fixing them, but bringing the problems to light is always the start of fixing things that are broken. - kaje, on 10/11/2007, -1/+96This new comment system makes me read less comments. Ironically enough, I have felt smarter since its implementation.
- Daniel001, on 10/11/2007, -17/+88Digg doesn't need to steal anything from anywhere, they just need to change the comment system back to how it was this time yesterday.
- interiot, on 10/11/2007, -8/+76... or Slashdot. ... or DailyKos. There are so many to copy from, why did they have to come up with a system that is pretty different from any existing system (for no clear reason), and that involves way more AJAX than is necessary?
- BrPyne, on 10/11/2007, -8/+73This system makes me question whether digg even tests their updates before going live with it.
- untzboy, on 10/11/2007, -30/+85every1 should reply to the same comment
- happyfappy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+49"Hmm... Do I really care what this person has to say? Is it really worth the time? Ok, fine I'll give it a shot. Aw *****. That was a waste of a click. But there's a reply to this reply too. Do I care enough to click and then wait? Not really. But here we go. Aw *****. It happened again. Ok, I'm never going to read anything but the top comment ever again."
- readme, on 10/11/2007, -6/+53Digg could really stand to have a proper threaded comment system. This approach is horrible. It requires too much clicking.
- brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -7/+51Agreed, this new comment system is retarded. It's slow for one, and wtf is with automatically burying ALL replies?
- neuonyx, on 10/11/2007, -13/+56Sigh -- Back to Slashdot...
- stealthboy, on 10/11/2007, -7/+47Just use the Slashdot comment style, for goodness' sake. All the most popular comments should be open (wherever they are in the threads), and lower-dugg comments closed. That way I can quickly glance at the most important comments. This current system is broken on so many levels that it really needs to be scrapped until a new Slashdot-style system can be put in place. Please just go back to the old way right now.
- lpmiller, on 10/11/2007, -3/+43You know, I don't need digg to pop up a message telling me I already dugg a comment. Just accept that I dugg the comment and move on. Not every thing needs a response, I mean we all get click happy sometimes, I don't need you bothering me about. Please dont' go to the Microsoft design school of constantly bugging me with windows.
- Exekutor, on 10/11/2007, -4/+44Me too, and anyone who clicked to see this comment.
- andregriffin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+41Hey, what happened to the block button?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40One good thing has come of this, its cured my addiction to Digg comments, and Digg in general...
- akatherder, on 10/11/2007, -4/+39I prefer the comments to be expanded by default instead of clicking to get into them. It's slower too.
Personally, I like the idea of locking down edits after your comment is posted. It makes you think things out instead of posting some crap then coming back to change it. It also makes the comments and replies to you look like nonsense if you retract. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34How long til the whole front page and top 10 is full of "change the comments back, NOW!" stories then?
- TheKorn2, on 10/11/2007, -9/+40Fool Bush once, good for you! Fool Bush twice, well now you're just beating up on a retard.
- aga1nst, on 10/11/2007, -10/+39Jesus this thing gets dugg like a bastard! Just hit refresh for several minutes and watch :D
- dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30"stops people from replying to the first post just to get noticed"
..you just proved that wrong, by commenting unrelated'ly to the first comment... - seether166, on 10/11/2007, -4/+31Technically, that's what everyone always did anyway :-( Everyone always replied to the first comment, regardless of relevance, so their comments would get read. That was a lame part about the old comment system...the lame part about the new comment system is absolutely everything else...
- itchynutsac, on 10/11/2007, -6/+33Stop hiding the smartass replies!
- WarMace, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28Im lost, where am I?
- JohnM5, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28Greasemonkey scripts to always expand(they do basically the same thing):
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10100
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10101
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10098
Greasemonkey script to fix the look of the page:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10099 - Konstantino, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24"5. There are others that I have noticed, but I'm not getting paid to be a beta tester, so I'm not going to bother futher writing them out."
Hey come on, isn't the point of beta testing to support whatever it is you want to see develop? You don't get paid to beta test Firefox, but you still do, right? If we want to see digg fix this, we're all going to have to point out this new comment system's flaws so they can fix them. - MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Yeah this sucks the bag. And to make it completly ironic, blog.digg.com has no comment system at all. We can't even properly voice our opinions.
- sacherjj, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26If they are trying to save bandwidth or DB queries, they are failing. I'm just clicking on the expand link at the top before I even start to read comments. This generates two page loads instead of one. I'll just stop reading DIGG. IT IS FRIGGIN' ANNOYING!!!
- StillGaming, on 10/11/2007, -11/+33"Warning. Public Dissent detetcted within digg. Ban offending user and pretend like dissent never happened."
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+24Well, hopefully digg will listen to its users, like it usually does. I think as long as enough people are with this, we'll be all set
- zeroooooooooooo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+23"P.S it's free hosting so ignore the ads. "
But I am the 999,999th visitor! - flashboy131, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20if you are reading this you clicked way too many times.
- mt066, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Another weird thing is that if you bury the parent post, the script hides it like it used to, but now it also hides all of the replies. So if you have several tiers of replies you have to "fetch" them all over again, when really you were just trying to digg down one post
- jtcalhoun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20I disagree with the notion that comments should always be editable. It would greatly disrupt the flow of discussion if users could always go back and alter or delete what they originally said in a thread. The feature would likely be abused as the original poster could withdraw his comment from a conversation that doesn't go his way. Also, new users to the thread might become confused as they wouldn't know what responses to the original post were responding to at the time they were posted.
Instead, I think it would make more sense to make comments eternally amendable. The original text of the comment would always be visible, but the user would still be able to make any necessary corrections or clarifications. The text from each amendment could be saved with a date stamp to show that the comment has been updated. - Shao00, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Just make an option to turn this crap off and display all the comments at once again!!!!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Or at the least, give us users the choice (option in our profiles or something) of which system we'd like to use rather than forcing something onto us with no consultation.
You KNOW we don't like that sort of *****!! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19All they really had to do was to pop a comment box (like the one I'm currently typing into) at the end of each separate thread, but not collapse each thread down so you can only see the initial comment.
Apart from that I think digg has (had) one of the cleanest commenting system I've seen recently.
I'm not sure I like the digg/bury buttons to be so big though. Spaced apart an additional 30 pixels would have been just fine so a slip of the mouse doesn't result in clicking on the wrong one.
A bit longer time to edit comments would also be nice, but not too long that you could go and rewrite a comment so you didn't look like an ass when someone called you out on it being incorrect, stupid or right-wing. - fugazi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22http://digg.com/design/Threaded_Digg_Comments_That_Actually_Look_Nice - Applied with the userscript in the comments it actually looks pretty nice.
- TTSkipper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18I would just be happy if the "Expand All" option was available to be set in my profile as a default. Clicking the "Comment Display Options" text link at the top and then the "Expand All" button is a pain in the ass for every story.
- kahrn, on 10/11/2007, -5/+21http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_comment_system_features_serious_flaws
Nothing says "***** comment system" like a real authentic error message straight from the mouth of firefox. - Travisty2012, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18You can expand all the comments with the "Comment Display Options" at the top right of the first comment. Then you don't have to click multiple times to see all the comments...
- DarkDragon, on 10/11/2007, -6/+21At least have an option (set by default =] ) to go back to the old system, this one is BS!
- SenorPez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Wow... and here I thought Digg was "different," without the massive commenting pyramids that afflict the other services.
Now we've got massive commenting pyramids, and slow-as-hell AJAX, complete with animations! -
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