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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+37@TheCount
He was just giving his opinion. I haven't even RTFA yet because it won't load, but from what you quoted, YOU'RE the smug ***** who thinks his opinion is above THIS guy's opinion. That's right, all he did was offer an opinion. He didn't like the design, and he came up with what he thought was a better idea. That's not being smug, that's expressing an opinion and being active in the possibility of change. He wasn't saying he is the ultimate webdesigner or that you're all absolutely wrong if you disagree with him.
Please, keep your ***** to a minimum. Did your daddy touch you when you were little? Because you sure are an angry little boy.
For the record, I think this guy's site sucks, and I think both the current and proposed Digg.com designs suck. Notice my non-***** way of disagreeing with BOTH of you, though? - tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -9/+26Personally I like Digg the way it is, but the way you redesigned Digg makes it look a lot better.
- tysonhy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13It's nice and all that you think digg should be redesigned, you even have a pic with how it would look but I am just happy with what digg has. They are always coming up with ideas and i'm pretty sure that design is on their list. Your idea with a comment reel is very good; I could see that in the near future. This is just my opinion. What do you folks think?
- SixSider, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I like it. But it ignores AdSense... the killer of all nice design.
- adminmatt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14not much of a redesign...
i like current design... simple, easy to load, and elegant... just the way i like it. - mightymouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8http://www.spheredesigns.net.nyud.net:8080/blog/?p=98
just incase. :) - dynamit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Personally I think the proposed redesign looks a lot worse.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If they went with his design, where would the put the Google ads??
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Being a designer, I always look for new ways to improve user interface in looks and functionality- one day, I looked at digg, gave my head a shake, and thought to myself..."
...a small amount of dust and the bags and filters were hopelessly clogged! A few thousand prototypes later, I had it... - greenbox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7agreed to the max. but i'm sure some like Kevin rose isn't going to look at this and say "let's try this guy's idea". were gonna have to wait until the summer for any new changes to occur.
- RexKwando, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14Keep this design.
Simplicity is worth everything.
This guy has too much time on his hands and a lack of originality! - qjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Best usage of the 'Dyson' quote Ever!! :)
It totally makes the point. - curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I agree with you tysonhy. Though I do think at this point digg should focus on building their site to focus on using the least amount of bandwidth possible, in any way they can so improve on digg's server load, and making page load times quicker than they are, because of diggs growth it appears that it slowing down again. I also think it would be a cool idea to give the ability for users to create skins for digg, to allow them to customize it they way they want, which would in turn allow the digg team to focus on the substance rather than the superficial aspects to digg!
I also think it is about time for digg to branch out there categories into areas such as politics to start with, as digg ends up with a decent amount of political stories submitted as it is, and it would be the most simple and logical move, being that wired and slashdot both are tech focused sites, that have their own politics section.
Beyond that I think the more digg can promote community features, such as making an official digg forums, or other forums of community interaction, especially relating to one's friends list. Possibly it would be interesting (though not anytime in the near future) to see the digg concept applied in other methods, as maybe polling on forums or such, friends groups/forums, and such. I would also like to see a feature available to counteract the problem/reporting feature...as some stories are inappropriately buried due to reporting. As it comes to voting/digging; you are allowed the ability to digg or not to digg.....I think a similar ability should be applied to reporting a story, being able to negatively report a story, as well as positively report a story as well, if a particular story is well worth the viewing of others.
The only other thing I could think that I would want to see happen to digg from the status quo, is to see one minor feature in the comment system changed. Some digg comments (like this one) can be rather extensive, and people who want to reply have to go to the bottom of the page and if they want to reread the users comment in which they wanted to respond to they have to scroll all the way back up and then down each time. This can become tiresome and inefficient, especially with the sheer volume of digg comments per story on the frontpage. I think it would be nice to see a feature for the comment system that allowed someone who is replying to a comment to have the comment text box appear right under the comment they are responding to in the threaded comment system as I think it would be very useful! - mdweaver7485, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow, I'm not a designer but I know that putting up unneccessary information, fading text effects, and extending text to the margins of the browser reduces redability by cluttering the inferface with the uneeded information, limits page accessibility by the heavy use of text effects with rely on graphics. The graphics also extend the page load times and bandwidth fees. Also extending text to the end of the browser is just plain bad its awful for reading, and its awful for printing, a good general rule is that text width should be no more than the width of an 8.5x11 printer page.
If this is your idea of a good redesign I sincerly hope your originals arent built with the same design sense for the sake of your audience. No one should pay for poor design. - penguinboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Sorry, but I wouldn't call the work brilliant. Its nothing but aqua glass templates that are used just for the hell of using aqua glass. No real "design" involved.
- conigs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Agreed. Kudos for taking on a personal project like this.
However, let me offer these comments:
First of all, you leave no space for ads, which Digg needs.
Secondly, the gradients you have over the categories really doesn't work. It makes it difficult to read them.
Glass/glossy may not be the best style for a site like digg. It can get distracting. (Gradients, at least in my opinion are subtle enough that they work fine.)
I do like the idea, though, of a more vertical design. For some reason the sidebar on Digg always bothered me. - farr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think I like Daniel Burka's design just fine really... That doesn't really seem to be an improvement at all, the icons just look thrown in, I don't like the shapes... it just seems really amateurish overall.
Also what, since you're a "designer" who goes around improving things, have you designed? Those cheesy photoshop templates? Your almost-but-not-quite-default Wordpress theme? Or is there somewhere a section of good sites that you've done. Maybe I'm being a little mean, but being a "designer" is getting just a bit to trendy... - danpsmith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Here's an idea: nested comments.
If you are really trying to take a hit on Slashdot's population, you have to have the ability to nest comments. All of this @ business is a cheap hack and shows that the system is inferior. The rest of digg is pretty good, add this one little feature, that and subject fields, how hard is that? - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Agreed. Not crazy about this at all...I like the "Digg for stories," etc. on the right side, and the descriptions scrolling allllllll the way to the edge of the browser isn't particularly readable. The fading out is a bit better on Digg, and the whole rounded-reflection buttons are a tad dated. The icons to the right of the headline are messy and it overall looks a bit busier than Digg.
Sorry...but you put it out there! - penguinboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Besides adding rounded-glass to everything and repositioning items, what is really changed? Sorry, but you also failed to leave room for the advertisements (which to my understanding is a great source of revenue).
The glass-aqua look is being overdone to death. It needs to end. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Apache and MySQL can handle a load, so the problem must be either bandwidth cap or a slow server. Besides, Apache doesn't serve directly from MySQL, you need a computation layer (PHP, Perl, whatever), if I'm not mistaken.
- misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Comment reel is nice idea, but I would hate adding that bulk to the top of the page. Maybe put a comment reel on the side. I'm a fan of getting as much vertical real estate as possible for stories.
- chasblackman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I really like the way Digg is set up. PS - I'm a web developer, and digg makes all kinds of sense.
- rabiddogma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Opps digg killed your blog.
- Shak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Digg's layout right now looks just fine. It already looks professional and well designed, especially for a website that gets so much traffic.
About the redesign - to be honest, it looks like tons of shadows/gloss/fading added to the current design.
What use does the comment reel have? Sure it'll tell you there is a new comment here, but I don't understand how that adds to the whole experience. Now, if it were the most recent story added, that would be different.
The fonts in general look a bit too big, and the design in general just doesn't seem to look like a design that such a popular website would employ. - FunkyChicken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dude! You got rid of their Ad Space which is where they make a ton of money.
What's up with that? - DIGGADEEP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"really" needs a design?... tell us why kind sir.
- gklinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think that's the beauty of it. It's a subtle redesign that improves the site without looking dramatically different which might confuse or worse, turn people off.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about having multiple designs? Let users pick!
- jonnie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I like digg the way it is. Not sure if I like the redesign, too clutered at the top. The rest of the redesign looks the same as digg anyway. One of the reason's for digg's success is its simplicity, lets keep it that way.
- northerncomfort, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not a dramatic difference, but I'd welcome the comment reel. I don't know how much I'd want digg to look like a stunted growth of Aqua, though.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Berean, how was your opinion any less smug? You're still sitting there saying they're wrong about something that's completely subjective, just like he did.
In fact, your opinion carries even less weight, because you didn't even ***** say why. You're just the ***** naysaying prick in the corner who shakes his head, but doesn't offer any way out. For some reason, you think that your ***** not only doesn't stink, but you can ***** it out whenever and wherever you want with no rhyme or reason.
Be a productive part of society, *****. - andrethegiant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2too windowsesque....
- Inferno52386, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5How about this redesign...I like this one MUCH better :-)
http://static.flickr.com/1/126600396_174bc96a68_o.jpg
(obviously I didnt take the time to do this perfect...but u get the idea) - panic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I love Digg's current design. It's very clean and light weight. This guys design is pretty nice, but I could care less if digg implemented it or not. Now slashdot.. that's a site that could use a major redesign! They got good content, and the structure of their site isn't bad... but talk about being stuck in the 90s...
- ejstacey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Nested, you say?
I liked the re-design. Slightly bulky for my tastes, but still nice. Well done! - mightymouse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5http://www.billcoindustries.com/diggredesign.jpg
Alternate link.. i was armed with bandwidth! I don't understand why it would go down so fast... - scott1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is slighty better.It does need some chages to it.
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'd also like this implemented:
http://www.mediahug.com/wp/2006/04/10/inaccurate-digg-stories-a-solution/ - aldenhg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg is fine how it is. Don't get me wrong: I like your ideas. If it aint broke don't fix it.
- shindigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I like the way it is. That design is all washed out.
And what's up with those scrolling comments? Completely useless. - vanlandw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I personally thing the layout of digg is pretty good. Of course some things could be improved but Digg really is 99% better then all tech news sites out there. The ads are manageable and simple enough to not be annoying. I said this minus reading the article because it's unavailable :-(
- patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I am perfectly contempt with the current design. No offense to the designer, but I really dislike this design. It looks like you ripped the "Royale" theme's taskbar and used it as diggs header and then possibly found the gradient took and got a little happy with it.
The current design is perfectly fine, I just.. well.. really dislike this design.
I don't mean to sound harsh but the more I look at it, it just seems like a hodgepodge of a couple of other designs.
The only thing that digg needs is to optimize their code. The Javascript loaded is horrendous and can be easily compressed. I mean, 10 requests for javascript alone?
Just my 2c
PS: In fact, I really hope that digg keeps this design around for a long time. I am sort of getting sick of every site out there redesigning for the sake of redesigning. It seems as if each time i'm starting to get used to a design, they go out and change it! - plasticated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That redesign is just nasty. Current design is fine for the simple reason that it provides both form and function. If you want to go around redesigning other peoples websites, I suggest you start with something like myspace.com
- ddrirc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think it looks good. I personally never actually view the front page of digg. The only link I use to get on digg is a direct link to the cloud view. In addition, I receive all front-page stories in RSS (via Opera), so there's no real need to actually be on the front page ever -- for me at least.
- theaftercrash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i'm a designer as well, and i think digg looks just fine the way it is :)
however.. slashdot could use some tidying up.
to be honest, your design is just a mix of everything trendy right now. even down to the shape that is showing the "number of diggs". i have seen that exagerated rounded/pointed shape ALL over the place. and as stated above many times, glossier does not always mean better.
i think the look that digg has right now is charming in its own way. its very muted, but still pleasing and nothing is too out of sorts or harsh.
all your design has proved is that you know how to implement every single current trend in webdesign, and how to make gloss in photoshop. - Eddible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm 17 but I don't come on here and flame people for the sake of. I've posted before about how I hate the Digg community. Back to the point, don't generalise every young person as being an immature *****. Granted a lot are, but there are a few with half a brain, thank you very much,
- Vision77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Although I am content with the current design, there is alway room for improvement. I feel like digg is only going to get better. Keep the creativity and innovative ideas coming.
- m242, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Step 1: Make digg only available to ages 21 and over.
- Eddible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hate/tolerance speech? Hardly. I just don't appreciate those who tarnish every young person with the same brush.
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