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- Azimuth1, on 10/11/2007, -24/+331"In order for Digg to go mainstream, they’ll need to find a way to break the cycle of geeks inviting more geeks. Digg will never be a major news property unless the audience itself is mainstream."
Does anyone else not want this to happen? I like that the digg community is geared towards geeky things. Video games, science, atheism, programming, gadgets... suits me great. That's why I'm here. - AlphaEta, on 10/11/2007, -20/+200I still miss the pre-"World and Business" digg!
More quantum chemistry, robots and nanotech... less Ron Paul, Rudy Guiliani and New World Order. - jayvdc, on 10/11/2007, -8/+165Now we can see pictures while eating at a great food place of Breaking News! Ron Paul uses iPhone with new macbook pros because google bought (insert new dvd code here) cat lolz picture.
- merlingen, on 10/11/2007, -15/+141Atheism is a geeky thing? lol...
- webcrunch, on 10/11/2007, -2/+102Bravo for the pictures feature. About time!
Also, I read in the article "it’ll deliver a more customized view based on your interests". So individual users will get their own front page? Sounds familiar (ie - corank.com)
Last, I don't quite see the restaurant thing going anywhere unless the audience of Digg itself becomes mainstream, and I agree with the article in this regards. They'd need a big shift in demographics. But then, if they do, will Digg be the same? Hard to tell.. - sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -5/+99Finally, the age old question of Taco Bell Vs. McDonalds can be laid to rest.
- ihavebeenseen, on 10/11/2007, -3/+87what about stories that are responses to other stories?
what about the damn problem with story duplication?
what about a better search syntax? what about a faster site? - chris9902, on 10/11/2007, -2/+67yeah I can see it now
"Apple iPone 27/10."
"Ubuntu better than the wheel"
"Vista kills bunnies" - staffrocket, on 10/11/2007, -3/+52Did he think up of these ideas in Amsterdam?
- idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -4/+53hello2usir is obviously cooler than us, we'd better listen to him.
- Sumyunguy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+50The restaurants section will be used about as much as the Podcasts section. (Which rotates absolutely never)
- jcliff29, on 10/11/2007, -3/+51I am NEVER gonna eat that restaurant again !!!! The food and price were GREAT .... but the LO53r$ were using M$ Windoze for the booking system -- AND my meal would have been cheaper if they used Ubuntu (4 DA WIN!!!).
- lesty420, on 10/11/2007, -5/+50I'm sure a forum will come sometime in the next 2 years
- lieutenantmudd, on 10/11/2007, -7/+38Ron Paul's restaurant has the absolute best steaks in town!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+29yea because 38 restaurants pop up every minute...
- alexguyCA, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27I for one think that a photo section could be a horrible thing if it is segregated like the video section is. I used to look at videos I found on dugg all the time, because I browse the home page on "everything" mode, and that is about it. So back when videos made it to the main home page, I saw them, Now, I remember to go look maybe once a month tops.
If photos end up segregated like that, I'll never see them again. - Jrr6415sun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28how about receipes?
- Universal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26I hope digg starts selling 'dugg' stickers in their store so we can use them in restaurants and such.
Much like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1tCSjfgKDA - ihavebeenseen, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26my prediction for the top review comment for restaurants on digg
"groin-grabbingly transcendent" - Roger, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25Google could probably write a better one themselves.
- bootle, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25How about giving us the option to hide all this "friends" stuff? That '48 hours' panel and the 'spreadin' the word' banner in particular
- covinolicious, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19I think whatever new functionality digg.com offers, it only makes sense to be voted upon by the user base. This is Digg after all! If it's the user base is who largely controls the rhythm of the site as it is, why shouldn't it be the user base who decides on what new functionality is introduced to Digg as well?
- opiv421, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21It'd be nice to see a change to the site. Don't get me wrong I love the 10 Ubuntu ______ and HDR:______ stories a day but this would be nice.
- jayvdc, on 10/11/2007, -6/+23how bout kevin asks his community what they want, not a picture category... maybe some updated functionality? they have api contests... how bout a forum to voice what WE the users need/want to make the website even better... it's not restaurant reviews i'll tell you that...
- junaru, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Oh ffs enough with the useless bloat already. Pre v3 digg was all about tech news, now days it's all about "top ten" lists, and colbert videos. And now they want to add restaurants and images ?! the image section will be dominated by lolcats and similar stuff making digg drift only further from its roots ...
- hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18theyre always talking about food on Diggnation ...tacos, vegetarian meat substitutes, white pizza etc
Alex is an unrepentant carnivore
Kev is a bit of a health freak (or is that just normal for California?)
***** this was more of a reply to Ron Pauls excellent steaks - DigiDave, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Pictures cool....
Tech reviews: a little sell-outish, but wtf -- why not.
Restaurant reviews? How about we all just submit our favorite opera performances? - ApplCmptrDood, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Instead of turning off categories, I wish stories could have a tagging system, so certain content could be filtered (i.e. Ubuntu, Ron Paul, ZOMG IPHONE, etc).
- Duelist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16I was hoping for better filtering options. Such as filtering titles using regular expressions and stuff, so that I can filter out all the Ron Paul topics fairly easily.
- miyamotofreak, on 10/11/2007, -7/+21I think a Ron Paul filter would help almost everyone out. He may be a good guy but he's killing Digg.
- rasp, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15@alphaeta (and others)
up at the top sort of under the word Profile click "Customize" and turn off the topics in digg that don't interest you.
voila! just the digg topics you want - xmuzik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15I think the product reviews idea is a good one :)
- jeremiah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12The video is up -> http://2007.thenextweb.org/home/
- hamen, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17What about a "language tagging" feature?
It could be usefull for me to find italian news/podcast/video... restaurants :)
hamen - Derrekito, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I really think the product reviews would be a good thing. So far the net seems limited to good product reviews no matter how crappy the product is. From my experience the best way to really figure out how good a product is to hit up the support forums, so long as they are not excessively censored. But creating a digg market for it might entice bloggers or whoever to start doing there own product reviews without having to take money from under the table.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14I'm kind of tired of all the atheism evolution iphone mac book Ron paul crap. I would like some change in here. Am I the only one?
- Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10and dont forget the linux antibush and kevin rose stuff
- B3nno, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I agree with ihavebeenseen, digg's search engine is by far the worst I have ever seen.
- mattmcm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10@Snetty (#6990818)
You clearly missed that whole HDDVD encryption key thing. - mattmcm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8@jayvdc (#6987650) said: "how bout kevin asks his community what they want, not a picture category"
In fairness, Diggers have been yelling for this feature for months. - Ellord, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Don't worry, we'll digg you up when its funny.
- praveens, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9unrelated...that snorg tees female is getting hot by the ad
- orangery, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7yeah time to turn digg into another imageboard I guess.
- fadeout, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Perhaps the election 2008 section would be of interest?
- Qenton, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Just give me customizable RSS feeds. I'll keep the images and hide the political section.
- psykiv, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I seriously never realized there were ads on digg, even with adblock turned off. I guess my brain really is completely 100% tuned to filter out the ads.
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5@bjornski
the bury and/ or block feature that already exists? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+13Guys, Digg *has* to expand into topics that attract users other than computer geeks, if they ever want to make a profit or have enough "sucker" traffic to make Digg desirable for a buyout.
In an interview early this year Kevin said that Digg made about 3 million dollars in revenue for the year 2006, and 100% of that was from the Google Adsense adverts on the site. The problem is this- most of digg's users are running adblock or have learned to "tune out" all the ads, so the clickthrough rate is embarassingly small. Digg is one of the top ranked sites (by traffic) on the entire internet, yet they're only pulling in 3 million dollars a year and that isn't even enough to cover the bandwidth costs and salaries of their 15 or so employees. Kevin said they aren't making a profit yet.
As long as Digg is visited mainly by computer-savvy geeks who either ignore or don't see the ads, they'll never break even. Period. If Digg had the audience of Cuteoverload.com (a bunch of n00bs) and the traffic of Digg, they'd be pulling in 50 million a year. So Digg has to put all their effort into attracting dumb, inexperienced users, if they want to ever make a profit.
Sad, but true.
Hell, hasn't anyone noticed that you can't even edit your comments on digg if you're using IE? That just shows that the execs at digg know that nearly 100% of their users are running Firefox. Even though worldwide IE has around 85% of the browser market, Digg doesn't even bother to make their site work with IE !! - braydonf, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9Is digg just going to get overbloated? The digg concept can sure apply to all sorts of things, but digg itself expanding to more areas? I don't know. I think it need to be get seperated, on another site, with a different community. Resturants would need a based community for example. I don't really care about the best restaurant in Amsterdam, unless i'm traveling there.Lets not expand, lets break out. Kthnxbye.
- aboyd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@ bootle
You don't need to wait for Digg to add those user preferences. JavaScript can easily turn off the display of those boxes. I built a GreaseMonkey script for you here:
http://www.outshine.com/blog/2007/06/greasemonkey-script-for-digg.php
It does what you're asking for, but you need to be running Firefox with GreaseMonkey -
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