What is Digg?356 Comments
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -34/+430Uhhh, what did Digg invent user-ranked topics now?
Christ, calm down, you fanboys. They didn't steal from Digg any more than Google stole from AltaVista, Netscape stole from Microsoft, or Apple stole from Rio.
The only thing here I see that could even slightly be considered a ripoff is the buttons themselves -- around the same size, rounded corners... pretty similar. But even then.. c'mon, rounded corners? Rounded corners are in.. and again, in no way are a digg invention. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+264Do they have better stories and less kids posting??
- SirBriggs, on 10/12/2007, -7/+258I don't see the problem, I mean they even credit Digg. It's not like the Yahoo! Autos Suggestion Board is gonna supplant Digg. Calm down.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -10/+230You know, digg didn't invent the idea of voting on user submitted content. It's been done since the early 90's.
Digg just did it well, and developed a good community.
The only thing that I don't get is why they ripped off the visual design. It's not like they don't have people there capable of coming up with uniquely styled UI - mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -9/+207They gave the credit to digg didn't they? So what is the problem? I think it really is showing how good the interface of Digg is.
- LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -21/+166"It takes two to tango" — one to lead, another to follow.
I don't know much about the tango, but that seems to be what Yahoo meant. - Caleb83, on 10/12/2007, -6/+67This is just lame. So Yahoo stole digg's design. How can we solve this? Ah yes, by smearing their site with obscenities. Brilliant. Congratulations, you have just given digg a bad name. Which is 'home to thousands of amateur hackers'.
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -4/+64Exactly.
They aren't copying Digg, just Digg style voting. *****, its not like the internet as a whole isn't basically mee-toos everywhere you look. If you have a good idea, it will be copied. What the ***** is wrong with that? They ARE using a Digg style interface in a new and pretty cool way, to collect feedback. Pretty good idea. Considering how popular bad customer service articles are on Digg, it seems to me they are trying to answer an issue we'd all like to see improved in big corporate America. *****, I'd love to see Ford and GM come up with customer feedback pages with a Digg style interface. Now that might get Detroit's attention and they'd quit banging out the same crap.
From the article:
"That’s changing for Yahoo! — we’ve brewed up a swanky new community-based recipe for collecting feedback that’s making its way across a number of our sites. It started with Yahoo! Autos and has proliferated across 14 other properties.
We call it a Suggestion Board — you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users. In addition to reading feedback from other users, you’ll find responses from Yahoo! employees about the issues. Product teams regularly read and take action on your feedback." - protohiro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52What digg is: user-submitted stories, placement of which is based on user votes.
purpose: sell ads, make money.
What tango is: user submitted product suggestions, voted on by users.
purpose: help improve site, thereby selling more ads and making more money.
Guys, this is just stupid to complain about. Tango has almost nothing in common with digg, other than a digg inspired interface. It is not the same thing. Now if news.yahoo.com started showing user-submitted stories, voted on by other users...now THAT would be a rip-off of digg. - Ademuth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Personally, I think it is a compliment to Digg.
If big corporation like Yahoo (or anyone else for that matter) is willing to clone/copy your UI and/or design and give you credit for it (i.e. "Digg-style voting"), you should take it as a compliment. They even gave Digg a link back for those that don't know what Digg is.
If they were doing this to create competition, then that would be a different story, but they are using it for a completely different purpose (a suggestion board).
One a second note, i think Digg should take Yahoo's idea and setup a suggestion board for Digg.com! It would allow digg staff to add, remove, or change feature of the site based on what the majority of the digg community prefers. - mirzmaster, on 10/12/2007, -18/+53I'm reposting this up top to get visibility:
*** DIGG COMMUNITY: Bury this ridiculous story so we can get this trifle off the front page. Frankly, it's embarrassing to the community. *** - driftersgold, on 10/12/2007, -62/+97typical corporate america: little guy has great idea and puts it into production, big guy steals idea and says I did this then gets a raise.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37i agree they admit they copied a great thing i dont see big deal.now if they had said "hey look at our brand new idea"
then its a big deal - Culled, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25I know how could Yahoo! rip off Digg by stealing hands. Personally I think I should send Kevin Rose a check since he obviously owns the rights to hands and I've been using them without permission.
- curlewfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22It's not a news website. They're using a Digg-like interface (which it seems they're doing so because it works well) to find out what's broken with their products. I wouldn't say it's so much ripping it off as much as applying (albeit uncreatively) a technique that works well to another problem they face: getting input from such a large user base.
- pennyfan87, on 10/12/2007, -12/+32Direct link:
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=autos - daeyeth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Hey submitter, you suck
- bootle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Seriously, they mention digg to give credit. Do scientists 'shamelessly rip off' people when giving citations?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Cest la vie. This happens all the time.
Besides, how else can you depict voting yes or no? Thumbs up/down is fairly universal. - eurokc98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I posted this 2 weeks ago. Guess I'm not good with the controversial titles.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_Quietly_Launched_Digg_like_suggestion_site
And no, I'm not complaining that my story didn't get dug (I don't give a crap), just wanted to point out that controversial titles do get the attention. Now I need to go back to watching the extreme action news team. - idiggeverything, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Who gives a *****.
- randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17When is it going to stop being "Digg-style" and start being "Industry Standard"? Does the idea of promoting content really belong to Digg? I think people were doing that before Digg was, but it just so happened that Digg got it right. So this model is now the standard. Why is that bad? *Especially* if the company using the idea gives credit directly back to Digg by actually *saying* "Digg-style".
You people are strange some times. Loyalty is a good thing, usually, but there comes a time when you need to let go. Just.. let go. It's a website. - shakin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I agree. Let's face it, the web's entire evolution has been one site ripping off an idea from another site. Everybody in the early to mid 90's learned HTML by first copying and pasting code from other web sites (back before the server side languages were popular).
All Digg has done is create the next evolution of web voting. Digg wouldn't be here if it weren't for many voting pioneers that came before it.
Kudos to Yahoo for using a good idea and not being too smug to admit it. If Digg-style voting makes their site better then everyone wins. - ProAm500, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Who cares?
- Livewired, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Frankly, this kind of behavior is embarrassing. Who give a crap? I'm totally embarrassed to be a digg user right now since it means I'm associated with the crappy fellow diggers. Now I'm pissed off at digg. Screw you guys!
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15So what?
All art is derivative, kudos for Yahoo! for adopting something good AND plainly giving credit for it.
There isnt anything about the digg interface that is especially patentable, its just well done and integrates existing technologies well into a nice service - its not an invention per se.
I don't hear anyone yelling at Google for creating a Yahoo!-like internet search engine, or for msn, yahoo, and google for creating an ICQ-like instant messenger. - nthitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I agree. There is nothing shameless about it. It would be shameless if they didn't give digg credit. They realize a good idea and decide to implement it. The highest form of flattery is imitation. And so what? As long as they aren't implementing any new ideas they are just taking an already existing idea that many other sites have implemented. It's a good system, it will probably improve the Yahoo Auto service.
- DavidPP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15OMG democracy has implanted a voting function. Total rip-off !
- Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -18/+31calm the ***** down ... geez... its a "website"... not really the entire same design... that would be different...
you crazy fanatics... - totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13That worked out so well for Netscape :p
- superstewy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Who the hell is spamming the Yahoo site? Give it a rest geezzz. All they did was implement Digg-style voting, the same way tonnes of other sites have. The only thing they did differently is actually give props to Digg about it.
And no, it is not an exact rip off of Digg, maybe because it's a freaken Yahoo! Auto Suggestion Board, not a news site. If a voting system works better for this kind of site, why not use it?! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12So should Digg pay royalties to Rober Ebert and the estate of Gene Siskel?
Digg CERTAINLY did not invent thumbs up and thumbs down. The SHAMELESSLY stole it from other places. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I feel embarrassed as a digger. You guys are total morons. Their design is actually somewhat unique anyway.
- theDevilsDue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I have to laugh at those actually wasting moments of their life trying to "spam" the Yahoo! site...you've done a GREAT job representing the digg community. Thanks!
- sunimoto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11fanboys piss me off.
it's about building a community, not UI. digg's strength is not in UI or any algorithms -- it's in you, people. Without users any community-centered site is dead. Yahoo will not gain or loose anything by using rounded buttons and "thumbs up" icons, it makes absolutely no difference.
so, stop your yapping and let yahoo be; those attacks on their site make digg community look like a bunch of fanatical kids. seriously, wtf is wrong with you?
-- if anything, yahoo just confirmed that digg has a ui that works... - Livewired, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Spamming the board will stop as soon as the high school kids go to bed. It's getting late for them.
- counterplex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The only thing more ridiculous than this story is the fact that Yahoo's suggestion box now has a bunch of "suggestions" to the effect of "Don't rip off Digg". Seriously folks, consider this the sincerest form of flattery and move on.
If such childish behavior demonstrates anything, it's a complete lack of understanding that all of us stand on the shoulder of giants just like people in the future will stand on our shoulders. This is how the world has progressed time and time again. Someone invents something and when it becomes popular, many knockoffs abound. Among those millions of knockoffs, however, is the same idea with an interesting twist which becomes the new invention. Rinse, repeat. - seoul_scurry, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Yeah, the guy who posted this "richstyles" is just a hater. If you take the time to look at what Yahoo did... yeah it looks similar, but they total gave credit to digg and they *DID* mention them, there's even a clickable link to digg. The dig guys have been to the Yahoo headquarters many times (as mentioned in the diggnation podcast, flickr photos, etc) and I would say this should be more flattering to digg than something bad.
No dig, marked as inaccurate. - goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I agree it's no big deal. Companies take good ideas from each other all the time. Here Yahoo openly acknowledged it, and who knows, maybe Digg even helped them. Or maybe Yahoo is gonna buy Digg. I know that's barely related and %100 speculation, but Digg is bound to be bought buy someone soon.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10So..let's see...to create Digg, Kevin Rose took the idea from Slashdot (not his own), decided to have users vote (not a new concept) and chose to depict those votes with a thumbs up and thumbs down (also not new).
Explain to me why we should be pissed at Yahoo for ripping off a ripped off idea? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Seriously...to all the 12 year olds posting the juvenile comments on the Yahoo site...do you really think you are giving Digg a GOOD reputation? If people who don't know about Digg (which is 99.99% of the population) get their first taste of Digg by reading your comments on Yahoo, Digg will never pick up any new users. And since its page views have dropped by about 20-25% in the last 3-4 months, they need to pick up new users.
- s14sh3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9the spamming is what I'd expect from Digg users
- jonconnelly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Buried as inaccurate as hell
- pastoc420, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The digg interface is hardly original and I don't even see that many similarities. You guys are a bunch of whiny bitches. Get some sunlight!
- mirzmaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm burying this as lame. Given that they're crediting Digg and nowhere claiming absolute originality, I don't see what the problem is.
*** Digg community, bury this ridiculous story so we can get this trifle off the front page. Frankly, it's embarrassing to the community. *** - Caleb83, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10As much as I don't agree with Yahoo using Digg's design style, I also don't agree with digg users vandalizing the yahoo autos site. So they made wrong, what is acting like a child going to accomplish? "This is what happens when you ***** with digg" Does this cocksmoker believe this? Get serious. Now people will think that Digg users are a bunch of amateur hackers, resorting to vandalizing a public site, instead of taking control of a private site. Bravo, rotten apples, you have succeeded in giving digg a bad name. I hope this is what you wanted to accomplish.
- orangysb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8what the *****, how the ***** did Yahoo! "shamelessly rip off" and "brag about it"?
RTFA and decide for yourself, ***** idiotic and inaccurate ***** - aacidusX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8are some people just morons? if you read most of the comments everyone is saying that yahoo gives credit where it's due to Digg. RTFA! why is everyone trying to hate on yahoo? if you dont like it dont use it! damn fanboys! BURY this stupid story by a stupid submitter.
again!, they give credit where it's due!!!
by doing crap to harm the yahoo site, it gives a bad name about digg.com..... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=autos
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I checked that site; yahoo's *new* feature is really feeling the wrath of spam right about now.
Talk about a good excuse to spam, one guy on there is wearing out the
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line - Branden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The people that are spamming the Yahoo! site seriously need to grow up. I am going through each comment and blocking/reporting anyone who is posting screenshots or any other type of encouragement for this kind of behavior.
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