Comments on: Hey Digg: Your “Upcoming” Model Blows, Here’s How to Fix It

By: america's next top model

america's next top model — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:13:04 +0000

america’s next top model

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:41:31 +0000

Jessie

I like the blog , please update it

By: Stephane Grenier

Stephane Grenier — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:41:08 +0000

That’s a great idea! Not only that, but you could also add a spot for the article that got the most diggs within the last hour. Basically the fastest rising digg.

By: esofthub

esofthub — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:00:12 +0000

I got so frustrated with Digg’s shout system that I disabled it. I was getting about 30-50 shouts per day from the same diggers. Don’t these diggers have a job?

By: AvangionQ

AvangionQ — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:48:58 +0000

Personally, I’d rather see upcoming stories on the middle right of the page, directly underneath the “Top 10 in All Topics” area of the page.

By: insub2

insub2 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:23:03 +0000

I like you idea but the major problem i see is the shear number of stories submitted would either overwhelm the front page stories or need to be dispersed (thinly) over multiple page views that there would be no benefit, i.e. the upcoming story’s diggs would still pale to the friends/manual promotion method. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, so perhaps i am wrong. i do like the idea an lot i just have some mathematical reservations.

I would prefer to see some sort of “suggest friends” feature. This idea is inspired by thoof (which is not as good as i had hoped it would be). Essentially, digg would compare stories one has dugg and compare it to others. At a set percentage of similarity and/or ordered by most similar, digg would list the “suggested friends”, at which point the user would choose to add or not add the suggested friend.

Of course, these ideas for improvement are not mutually exclusive. And could have some interesting effects if combined (assuming the “featured upcoming stories” appear on the friends recent activity page also…because, ideally, that is where I would spend most of my time).

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:35:23 +0000

“let’s say digg receives in average a chunk of 10, or 5, links per minute.. There’s a chance that a few *good* stories be left out during peak times..”

Not really, because digg has so much traffic. It could start immediately spotlighting new stories on popular pages. Ultimately it just needs to be sure that a large enough sample of people have seen each upcoming story and had an opportunity to digg it or bury it, because there are not enough eyeballs looking at stories in the upcoming section.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:33:41 +0000

“but I think your solution is LAME.”

And your solution is overly complex and misses the point. Your solution tries to fix the problem of friends digging stories. My solution aims to fix the problem of quality content languishing in the upcoming section and that is never seen or promoted, because there’s so much crap there and not enough people looking at it. That’s the problem with digg: that good stories go unpromoted in the upcoming section and the only stuff that gets promoted is being manually promoted by shouts, requests to friends, etc.

You could submit a real story about aliens landing on the white house lawn and it would get 1 maybe 2 diggs because no one will ever see it, UNLESS you send it to 50 friends.

By: Wirah

Wirah — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:19:12 +0000

Thanks

By: chris

chris — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:18:02 +0000

use reddit and you wont have this problem