Why Digg.com Won't Succeed

[jeffeh]

Like the title says I decided to do some meaningless rant on why I don't think digg.com will survive unless it goes through some pretty major changes.

Ok so I may receive some backlash from this and seeing I actually have a link to the site as well as a list of the things I've been digging it doesn't make much sense for me to be saying this I'm going to say it anyways. The way digg.com moderates itself and the users that visit the site religiously really have to realize that there is more in the world that Ubuntu Kernel releases, AJAX, lists of vista screenshots and web 2.0 applications. My tendency to visit digg is becoming less and less tempting everyday. It seems like there is always one of these stories on the front page. We got the point the first time and now its time to move over and replace those weak stories with something a little more interesting and important.

Digg should expand its category base if it plans on remaining popular in the world of 'Web 2.0'. By doing this they will open the doors for so many more articles that people want to see but arn't able because of the nature of the site, technology.

Ok so maybe expanding the range of stories isn't the answer. What about limiting stories with similar keywords to be on the front page at the same time. This keeps the front page interesting and not flooded with the latest 10 minute internet trend. The community driven idea is great but its not going to be able to keep up with the demand for newer and more interesting content. I guess we will just have to wait and see how it stands up when it counts.

Original Article: Jeffeh.com - My Blog

 

[mundane]

Second cut-and-paste from your personal blog already?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Digg has already suceeded. Your post fails.

 

[JDrake]

stay where you belong :Q

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
Second cut-and-paste from your personal blog already?

Second? All his posts are.

 

[jeffeh]

Can I get some criticism here or just going to say no your wrong? please.... just trying to play devils advocate and get peoples opinion on digg

 

[Tu13erhead]

no your wrong

 

[ndee]

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[JoPh]

Originally posted by: ndee
Nice Title-Tag you got there:
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i think he missed a few important search topics.

 

[ultimatebob]

Most of the stuff on Digg IS crap, though. It's filled with false Apple rumors, Ubuntu cheerleaders, and AJAX fanboyism. You know that your site has problems when even Slashdot's stories are less biased.

The comment moderation system is a joke, too. Just try posting any comment that has any negative opinion of ANY Apple product, and watch it get moderated down to -20 within a hour.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ndee
Nice Title-Tag you got there:
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LOFL....AHAHAHAH..no wonder google's searchers are going i n the Sh!!7er sometimes

 

[FoBoT]

never heard of it

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
never heard of it

 

[ultimatebob]

Unfortunately, Digg has already succeeded. I guess that asking for a good unbiased news site that is updated daily is too much to ask for

 

[T3C]

wrong answer. You are going to see more and more digg like media sites soon.

 

[LordMaul]

Like others have pointed out: Digg has already succeeded. They're THERE. And your blog is ###.

 

[djheater]

I have no idea what you're talking about and your rant did not sufficiently pique my interest to find out.

 

[Quasmo]

my roommate started http://www.Pligg.com
Bligg is the open source code of "digg" not owned by digg. It allows people to make thier own sites based on the dig design and layout, so they can create content based on their liking.

 

[dawks]

I'll just note that kevin rose has plans to expand digg beyond just tech and geek stuff. They plan to release a version targeted more towards the mainstream with entertainment and world news and such. Or so I heard a month or two ago.

 

[yankidank]

As Quasmo mentioned a few posts up, I head an open source project for a digg-like CMS system. One of the reasons that I started it was because Digg is very techie right now and most of the Digg users are immature little kids who promote the same stories over and over again. As dawks mentioned, Digg has planned to some day broaden it's audience. Unfortunately, that day is probably a long time off. I've researched a lot into Digg and I've read a lot of what the CEO Jay Adelson has had to say about the future of the site. He has admitted that there are many features in development, but many of the features probably won't be released for at least another year. Digg recently aquired some funding to help speed up the development proccess, but in the last 4 months of development of Pligg I have been able to take the Pligg project (originally based on the Meneame project) to new levels and offer the code to everyone for free use.

Some sites that have already been created using the Pligg software are localized versions of Digg. Most people don't think about this, but many other countries would like to have a Digg in their own language. And that's how site's like IndianPad and LiveDigg came to be. BTW I do not agree with livedigg's use of Digg's images and CSS, they definitely broke some trademarks/copyright. There are at least 20 international Pligg sites ranging from Norweigan, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian and many other languages.

Most importantly, not every Pligg site is specializing in technology content like Digg. There are the infamous porn versions of Pligg that use the voting ability to rate adult galleries and sites, there are podcast directories that rate podcast episodes and many other categories. Probably the most successfull Pligg site so far is VideoSift which lets you rate videos from youtube and google video.

So why is Digg hyped up so much? Probably because Digg was one of the first sites to use social promotion as their method for news publishing. Giving users the ability to democraticly vote for their own news stories promotes stories much faster and it promotes what the people are most likely wanting to read. This new method for site content has been reported on widely through the mainstream media in newspapers particularly. As I mentioned before in this post, Digg is no longer alone in the market for social news. There are many other sites out there offering the same service, with more options and broader categories. This is why I think that Digg serves best as a model for social newsmaking, but not as the monolith that it once was.