The Rise of Digg.com 429
An anonymous reader writes "Wired has a story about Digg, a community bookmarking site that creates its own version of the Slashdot effect. It's a provocatively titled piece - 'Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot' - but goes on to consider the obvious similarities between the two and the differences. Digg is more chaotic, immediate and user driven, whereas Slashdot features more in-depth and technical discussions."
Well, I hate navel-gazing news but I think the aggregation of blogs is a critical step in the future of on-line content, and Digg is doing good work here. The interesting thing will happen when their population grows a bit more. Scalability is hard... but I imagine the millions of dollars of VC funding will really help.
Let's Look at the Comments... (Score:5, Informative)
On the Digg front page, the most recent five have 1, 6, 5, 15, and 13 comments.
Yep, Slashdot is REALLY in danger.
Re:Naval Gazing? (Score:2, Informative)
You obviously don't look too hard. The threshold for comments is right under the "Comments" title. As for threading, I prefer it not threaded. I can read all the comments on one page and easily see who is replying to whom. Threaded replies are just a pain. That's why it took so long to reply to you as a I had to go throught all the replies to make sure someone hadn't already said what I wanted to.
So there.
Re:Naval Gazing? (Score:2, Informative)
There is actually a user-driven commenting system:
-3 SPAM
-2 Flame
-1 Off Topic
0
+1 Useful
+2 Insightful
+3 Excellent
This isn't as specific (or targeted, if you prefer) as the Slashdot moderation system, but that's probably okay because, as some other posters have mentioned, digg is more focused on the stories than the comments. However, it would be nice if the current system worked well. As it is, most users either don't know how to use the moderation feature or don't care to use it.
There is no threading (seriously hard to follow conversations without threading).
Threading is another thing I'd really like to see on digg. Many users currently reply to eachother by using "@[username]" before the content of their reply.
Kevin Rose? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:$2.8 million??? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Naval Gazing? (Score:2, Informative)
Using their scoring system Slashdot doesn't look that bad.
However, if they had a -1 for delays longer than 24 hours Digg would score much better.
Slashdot may post earlier sometimes but Digg rarely is more than 24 hours behind.
Slashdot was 30+ hours behind on a number of stories.
I read Slashdot for the great comments.
Digg looks like a good alternative if