I know I'm not the best at designing these things but this would definitely allow the frontpage to move at an even faster pace, allowing users to discover more content.
OK, maybe it's over my head. I'm a tech-dummy. I just don't understand why wondering around page 5 would help new users, but if it does, I'm all for it.
Could we maybe get some basic flavor text options? Simple things like bold, underline, and italics. I've been coming to digg for nearly 5 years and have always wanted that.
It actually doesn't matter. Digg has made it so that their algo chooses stories based on website popularity rather than actual buzz on digg. Skim through the front page and see if you can find any sites that aren't big name domains.
I don't think you fully understand what I'm trying to suggest here. The 5+ Diggs means all the trending stories from good sources or new sources hit the frontpage at a much lesser count of diggs and let users decide what to do with it. This is mostly for less savvy users who just visit the frontpage and either don't bother to check the newsroom or don't know what it is.
A prime example is this is a story where Doublefine managed to raise over $500k for an upcoming adventure game in a matter of hours using kickstarter [ http://digg.com/news/gaming/double_fine_seeks_to_cut_out_publishers_with_kickstarter_funded_adventure ] but this won't hit the frontpage because it's at 11 diggs. Now this could potentially change the Business model of the gaming industry forever and the average digg user is yet to see it as it is not even in the newsroom anymore - http://digg.com/newsrooms/gaming . It lasted there for a few hours...managed to get 11 diggs somehow but then never made it.
While I agree about the default being set at 30 or 60, I disagree about the spam, the digg staff has done a great job at making an algorithm which does not show any spam in the newsrooms. If you check each newsroom individually right now there is NO spam at all with over 5 diggs. None!
More would be nice.Someway to filter out the commercial diggs as well or at least hide them. Last but not least, a way to expand the page width. I have a widescreen display and i would be nice to fill the empty space on it.
Horrible idea. There should be less in top news, not more. If you want to discover more stories that's what the newswire and the newsrooms are for. Don't push more low quality stories to the front page because you're looking in the wrong place. Stories with as low as 30 diggs already reach top news these days, it used to take at least ten times that amount to reach the front page.
Top news should be for getting the top news at the moment, not to discover new things. How many stories hit the front page every day? Like 100 something. Most of it is crap anyway. We don't need more of it.
Off course I use digg to get the actual news, not to see the latest video of a dumb cat doing dumb cat activities.
Also this should be at ideas.digg.com not digg itself.
I understand that, but with the current Digg userbase being a fraction of what it used to be this would be the easiest and fastest way for "New Users" to discover stories instead of going looking at different newsrooms one at a time.
My bad:-( I get it now. It only took me a day! I hope this brings in more digg users. I'd love to see digg returned to its former glory - or a newer one.
I would have to disagree. I believe all news are the same, it really depends on what the majority wants to hear, watch, read or see. More importantly, isn't having the opportunity or even the privilege to absorb more news or new information a good thing? So in the end, it would be a good decision to use a better template that helps expose more news to people. News is just a presentation of an occurrence through any type of media... So how can a specific story is crap?... Most news that are fed to us right now are what the communicator WANTS to feed to you. But anyways.. just my opinion.
xraymasterFeb 9, 2012Buried
I know I'm not the best at designing these things but this would definitely allow the frontpage to move at an even faster pace, allowing users to discover more content.
EDIT: This is of course a suggestion.
amarFeb 10, 2012Buried
Hey Shawn,
Dude, I like that design! I'll pass this around to the dev team. Today's hiccups caused some site wide issues as you might have noticed.
Rock on! Awesome suggestion!
anomaly100Feb 9, 2012Buried
But, being in the Newsroom =/= front page.
anomaly100Feb 9, 2012Buried
OK, maybe it's over my head. I'm a tech-dummy. I just don't understand why wondering around page 5 would help new users, but if it does, I'm all for it.
mtownFeb 10, 2012Buried
Could we maybe get some basic flavor text options? Simple things like bold, underline, and italics. I've been coming to digg for nearly 5 years and have always wanted that.
couragewulfFeb 9, 2012Buried
It actually doesn't matter. Digg has made it so that their algo chooses stories based on website popularity rather than actual buzz on digg. Skim through the front page and see if you can find any sites that aren't big name domains.
gamingforeverFeb 10, 2012Buried
This reminds me of N4G.... Default though should be at like 60 or else you'll see spam all the time...
xraymasterFeb 10, 2012Buried
I don't think you fully understand what I'm trying to suggest here. The 5+ Diggs means all the trending stories from good sources or new sources hit the frontpage at a much lesser count of diggs and let users decide what to do with it. This is mostly for less savvy users who just visit the frontpage and either don't bother to check the newsroom or don't know what it is.
A prime example is this is a story where Doublefine managed to raise over $500k for an upcoming adventure game in a matter of hours using kickstarter [ http://digg.com/news/gaming/double_fine_seeks_to_cut_out_publishers_with_kickstarter_funded_adventure ] but this won't hit the frontpage because it's at 11 diggs. Now this could potentially change the Business model of the gaming industry forever and the average digg user is yet to see it as it is not even in the newsroom anymore - http://digg.com/newsrooms/gaming . It lasted there for a few hours...managed to get 11 diggs somehow but then never made it.
neondistractionFeb 10, 2012Buried
Here's a tip: stop trying to make it look like facebook.
xraymasterFeb 10, 2012Buried
While I agree about the default being set at 30 or 60, I disagree about the spam, the digg staff has done a great job at making an algorithm which does not show any spam in the newsrooms. If you check each newsroom individually right now there is NO spam at all with over 5 diggs. None!
barfomaticFeb 10, 2012Buried
More would be nice.Someway to filter out the commercial diggs as well or at least hide them. Last but not least, a way to expand the page width. I have a widescreen display and i would be nice to fill the empty space on it.
xeworlebiFeb 10, 2012Buried
Horrible idea. There should be less in top news, not more. If you want to discover more stories that's what the newswire and the newsrooms are for. Don't push more low quality stories to the front page because you're looking in the wrong place. Stories with as low as 30 diggs already reach top news these days, it used to take at least ten times that amount to reach the front page.
Top news should be for getting the top news at the moment, not to discover new things. How many stories hit the front page every day? Like 100 something. Most of it is crap anyway. We don't need more of it.
Off course I use digg to get the actual news, not to see the latest video of a dumb cat doing dumb cat activities.
Also this should be at ideas.digg.com not digg itself.
myztryFeb 10, 2012Buried
Lake of text flavour is a definite issue. Especially the lack of specifying underlying hyper-links.
I am by no means new to Digg and find myself spending most of my times over at Reddit instead...
(LOL. Member since 11/12/050... I take it 050 means 2005.)
xraymasterFeb 9, 2012Buried
I understand that, but with the current Digg userbase being a fraction of what it used to be this would be the easiest and fastest way for "New Users" to discover stories instead of going looking at different newsrooms one at a time.
anomaly100Feb 10, 2012Buried
My bad:-( I get it now. It only took me a day! I hope this brings in more digg users. I'd love to see digg returned to its former glory - or a newer one.
bsinniFeb 10, 2012Buried
really wish they would stop changing Digg
winxwaresFeb 10, 2012Buried
will be nice change
urdumania1Feb 10, 2012Buried
Here's a tip: stop trying to make it look like facebook.
chensteven91Feb 11, 2012Buried
I would have to disagree. I believe all news are the same, it really depends on what the majority wants to hear, watch, read or see. More importantly, isn't having the opportunity or even the privilege to absorb more news or new information a good thing? So in the end, it would be a good decision to use a better template that helps expose more news to people. News is just a presentation of an occurrence through any type of media... So how can a specific story is crap?... Most news that are fed to us right now are what the communicator WANTS to feed to you. But anyways.. just my opinion.