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- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38One of the clearest benefits to having a forum is that new members can find answers to old questions without having to bother the support people.
It also helps other members to see when a problem they are having is shared by others. - Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I just want to know when Digg gets one.
- technophobe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27
It's hardly a social network if there is no easy way to communicate.
In the whole W2.0 haze, I'm surprised dedicated forum sites haven't been more prominent. - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25True Digg does have a commenting system per story but the current hackjob use of having a forum on Digg is to submit a story pertaining to that topic. This usually prompts people to bury the submitted story and it's goal is half achieved. Digg does need a forum as technophobe pointed out it would hardly be a social network without it.
- TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Sometimes I would like a place to discuss other things than the story topic with other digg users.
I've also found myself in a situation wishing I could send the user a private message. - fastfood15, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18DIGG NEEDS FORUMS
it would be the best and biggest in the tubes. - Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Let's work on multi-level comments first.
- Cambo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Digg needs forums so that us geeks can increase their odds of meeting a girl
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@wphj
It really does need one, though. Right now, if you want to talk about digg itself, you either need to go completely off topic in another article, or you need to write one of these "what digg needs" articles that keep popping up. There really needs to be a better way to do this, and a forum seems an obvious choice. - Arkitan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@TheWorm
I agree, but I just want the ability to send other users private messages. - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Of course they need forums.
Where else does a 12 year old, social recluse, get to throw his weight around? - roxics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think that at the very least Digg needs threaded commenting for articles. The ability to reply to a reply. Perhaps change the strip background color (where it shows the username/thumbs so we can follow more easily how much we've branched off the main discussion. Blue at the first level (like it is now) > green > red > orange > yellow > ect.
What Digg should do beyond that is add a third Tier to the categories. So if you go into say Technology > Apple you would then be presented with either an Articles or Discussions category (defaulting to Articles). It could probably work just like Digg does right now except instead of submitting it as an Article you'd submit it as a Discussion and it would be more open to allow people to just ask questions and talk about stuff. People could even Digg discussions since it would be built off the same system. Everything would still look and feel the same way Digg does now because nobody says a forum has to look and work exactly like a vbulletin or invisionboard. - StrikerObi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Amen to this. The fact that people crate bogus headlines just to start discussion topics on Digg drives me mad. Dedicated forums would really help, and keep people from turning Digg into a forum.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11with all the spam digg gets already, do we really need to add another venue for it?
right now I'd be content with a PM system - wphj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ricree
I guess you're right. Maybe it would be a good thing. It would cut down on people going off topic to ask for new features and no one would force me to participate in it, with "the jerks" - acidhash, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Forums are Web 1.0.
- wphj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Digg does not need a forum. Lots of the people here are real jerks and only after blocking a ton of them have I finally been able to read the comments without annoyance. Digg is not really a social site, it's powered by a community, but user interaction is not its strong suit. It's too popular and there's too much riffraff.
- atmofunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Forums would only move the conversation away from the articles themselves. IMHO, digg would lose the feeling it had simply because everybody would be talking "backstage" instead of under the articles.
Deeper comment levels, private messaging, bring it on.. but whatever digg does, it I think it needs to keep itself within the model it already has. - msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Just so everything is clear. The recommendation is not to have forums as a substitute for comment threads. The idea is to have forums to address concerns with how the site owners are dealing with the community, pass around recommendations about new features to add, problems and ideas about the old features and how to improve them, and so on.
- aftk2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4From the article: "As you can see, readers frequently use this feature to ask Reddit (and the community) questions and create discussions that would be ideally suited for a forum. Digg and Netscape currently lack the feature, and I have actually recommended in the past that Digg, as a primary measure (and of course Netscape should do the same), add that feature"
Heh. Apparently the author hasn't been paying attention; sometimes it seems like the most frequent (and certainly the most popular) submissions are ones about digg itself. Cheers for metanews! - onehalf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Forums are not "new system of contact", either. Usenet much?
- Jayeveryday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agreed I love digg. But its a pain to keep track of comments. Anyway sometimes you just wanna argue lol
- zdiggler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How do you have a social network without a forum to talk ***** to each other??
- zdiggler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Something Awful have very good social forum.
Actually to me forums or clubs are more social then so called social sites. I used to belong in a car club where we hang out most of the time on the forums setup local meets etc. Everybody was in my age or older. I even got jobs through those forum members.
So Forums sites been social way before Social or web2.0 (*****) Web is web just serve the contents the way people could use it better. Some site are cool with rounded coners like how SlashDot looked. Site like this slashdot and other wanna be sites out there where people discuss news are cool. like fark, digg, reddit etc.. I don't care if they're in Plaintext based HTML or full or graphics and colors. Hell I still read NewsGroups! (Most people on digg don't know about Usenet I bet), which used to be just big forums and a lot of answers could be answered before webbased forums came around.
they're all the same to me. - matthellstrom, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1I think it's neat to have a forum on a social site. We just created one on ning that has a forum, along with people able to have their own blog. It's for parents only, it's called Parenting Allies. http://www.parentingallies.com. Go take a look, anyone can set up their own social network.
- appleswitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People consider Netscape a real website with features and users that have opionions? I thought their only plus was that hundreds of old people don't know how to change their homepage. Digg users, please clarify this for me, why Is he talking about netscape like It has anything of value to the internet?
- cesclaveria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1may be a way to have the digg 'spirit' comments system and the forums co-exists would be to not allow what would be a digg submission in the forums, and move the comments to the forums once they hit the 100 mark.
- da_bradler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think there just trying to figure out a cool way of implementing forums into the digg universe. the digg up digg down and direct story implementation could make for an interesting social scene. But ya with certain stories getting 300+ comments i can see how forums would be a good floodway and keep the comments in the 50-100 sweet spot.
- Wisgary, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3http://rankings.big-boards.com/
the ones they would have to beat. - suprfli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wish there was a forum so i could ask a few basic questions and get some community feedback. Since the new design(which I love) whenever I digg something on the front page it disappears rather than shows it on the page as dugg. Maybe this is a feature but I prefer when I dugg something it stayed on the page where it was dugg. Now I have to go to my history or click on comments first and then digg it. It I refresh the page I see it on the front page as dugg...
My other issue is that I get logged out constantly although it shows I am logged in. The only way I realize I'm logged out is when I digg something and get a message that I'm not logged in. However, at the top of the page my username is there, it shows I am logged in, I can view my options and profile yet I can't dig a story and I have to go to my profile and log in again. It's bizarre. Maybe I should just send this to the digg feedback email address but I can imagine w/the traffic this site gets I'll never get a reply much less expect them to troubleshoot it w/me....
All in all, without a forum I'm less inclined to continue to use digg b/c it's not working to my satisfaction and it gets on my nerves. Sometimes I just don't bother digging good posts b/c of the login issue. - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just use forums for technical support and feature requests then
currently you ether send digg an email or something
or make a blogpost about it and get marked as blogspam for having ads - MonkeyFarts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think that a full-fledged forum is necessary for sites like Digg. It already has a widely-used comments system in which people can comment on the stories that have been submitted. The only tool that I think is really missing in Digg is a private messaging system. It could really come in handy for sending messages to the developers rather than having to rely on E-mail.
On a slightly related note, however, I think forums could be improved by implementing some of the features seen on Digg, such as the digging up/down features and friend features. - parthanant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Look at the success of Topix forums. MediaVidea wrote a similar post, suggesting that local news sites must have Topix like forums.
http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/where-is-money-in-local-news-sites.html - iAlex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. I am amazed that there is not even a PM system for the website. A forum would be great too!
How can these "web 2.0 social sites" forgot something as easy as forums? :S
Get forums digg! - zdiggler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Forum are like Web 4.0
- livestradamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Imagine how many people will have to be moderators on the forums. And how many messages, topics & spam.
Digg is fine. If it ain't broke- don't fix it. Besides, IMO as one of the top visited sites on the entire WWW Digg is riding its peak. - roxics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think a PM system is the wrong way to go. I've never really understood what they are useful for in forums. Public sites should be left public. If people want to talk privately that's what email is for. The last thing Digg needs to do is waste their servers on private messages between 2 users.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Maybe because it would be way too populated.
- Slipknotic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sites like:
www.whytheysing.com
are ONLY forums, and people wonder why there's a lack of trafic, a site like Digg would probably have a great helpful forum with an abundance of members. - Nocturnal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree 100%. I'd love to see digg implement a vBulletin forum. That would be awesome!
- msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Please read the article: "The easiest way to take into account the views of the people, and gauge how they would react to potential new features (or evolution of old features) is to engage the readers through forums."
- steven401, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wrong story - Lawl.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3forums just breed politics and malcontent.
especially if there are no hot chicks. - zdiggler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Digg should start a Usenet group alt.news.digg
- AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@Tricky:
http://revision3.com/forum/
That works for now. There's a Diggnation forum there. Close enough to being Digg for now. - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2there are ways of clearing spam
comments dont make a blog spamy when theres a spam filter
wouldn't there be the same for forums - opencoder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I like how people are quickly referring to the internet as "tubes." Its a true testament to how stupid people are made fun of on the internet.. I love it.
- jman8888, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1No Web 0.92 Alpha 2
Duh! - jman8888, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://www.big-boards.com/highlight/1623/ ...
- tropican8, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Digg does NOT need a forum. Forums are prone to spam and nonsense issues being posted. Anything serious, when submitted as a story, is quickly promoted to the frontpage. As long as Kevin and the rest of the team continue to read Digg as they do, they will notice anything serious that needs to be addressed. For example, when the website was updated, I wrote a quick story and submitted it about profile searching disappearing. Within an hour, Kevin personally replied to the story saying how he will add the feature back soon.
You don't get that kind of support from any other website, and I really don't think that should change. -
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