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From our does it blend department : Is Digg.com going down tonight?
We were impressed how well their web site scaled to the ever increasing user numbers. And they’ve been adding features over features. But tonight it seems for the first time the site is going down on its knees.
While the servers still reply immediately to any ping or traceroute packets, the wait for pages has now…
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DIGG: Wisdom of the Crowds or Famous for 15 minutes
Social Networking site “Digg.com” puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story. While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission. Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results…
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Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
In our previous post Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? we have shown evidence how Digg is currently spammed and asked users to read articles before voting for them. (our article was removed in minutes while being heavily digged by users) Since then a few things have happened: 1. Digg support [...]
Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
After quite some discussions the last days on Digg power users dominating the front page stories at Digg we today stumbled over something rather strange. How can people rate a story when they can’t even access it? And how does a story that nobody can access make it to the front page with high numbers? [...]
