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Digg Adds New 'My #1 Story' Feature
diggtheblog.blogspot.com — Starting today, every time you digg a story an icon will appear next to the story title in your profile's dugg stories list. Clicking the icon will save and lock that story to the top of your digg user profile. This will let your friends know what you consider to be the most important story on digg at any given time.
neiltc13- 275 diggs
- digg it
- Robmash, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2u beat me to submitting this by 2 minutes aargh
- DigiDave, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3beat me by four.
I think it's a good feature though. Version 3 still has me feeling a little rough around the edges, but I think this is a positive change.
No offense, I still won't digg this, just on principle. I'm sick of reading news about digg on digg. - cma3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10"Clicking the icon will save and lock that story to the top of your digg user profile"
Can you please include an unlock icon as well.
This thing seems pretty useless to me.
Everything I digg I deem a favorite and worth coming back to. I tend to use digg as a bookmarking tool more than anything; an article archive if you will.
I dont like this feature or maybe I am missing something. - DigiDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6After tooling around with it, I have to say there are some drawbacks. It looks like you can #1 as many stories as you want, but only one is "saved" on your history. It also appears that you can #1 your own stories.
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19yeah we need an "undo" button for this. i didnt know what it was and i clicked on it, now my favorite story is about an indonesian village flooded by goo
- nmaster64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I need an Un-#1 button! I didn't know what it was at first and clicked it on a story I definitly wouldn't put as my #1...
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I also vote for an un-#1 button.
- AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I also back an un#1 button. I wasn't sure what it was and clicked something I wouldn't have. My solution for now is to replace it with another, but would rather not have one at this time.
- DigiDave, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3beat me by four.
- matthewconnelly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wondered what it was, and clicked it by accident. You can see all your previous #1 stories in your Profile + History under the My #1 Tab in History.
- alantocheri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Now the question is.. how do you UN-my#1 a story??? I saw the button on another story I just dugg, figuring "ooo this looks cool.. what's it do?" *click* "oh crap"
- gazzerh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I was trying to figure out the same thing. I pressed the button not knowing exactly what is was now I can't undo the #1 :/
- neiltc13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They haven't yet introduced un-burying so I don't think Un-My#1ing will be around any time soon either.
- hemphill81, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yeah I'm a little click happy I want to get rid of some of those.
- kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -2/+103done - 'un #1' coming soon!
- hemphill81, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16@kevinrose
Thanks. Now that is service for a site that is provided to us for free. If only we could get that kind of service from Dell which we pay. - horatio80, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22@hemphill81
You pay Dell. LOL
- DigiDave, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Anyone Notice that the Front Page is filled with stories that are over 4 days old?
What gives?- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think they must have adjusted the algorithm and it grabbed some stories that were old and wouldn't have made it under the old formula, but under the new formula they are front-page material.
I hope this means that a story still has a chance of making it to the front page if it gets enough diggs even if it is over 2 days old (in submission time).
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think they must have adjusted the algorithm and it grabbed some stories that were old and wouldn't have made it under the old formula, but under the new formula they are front-page material.
- radicaldementia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5They should add a link under friends' activity to see all your friends' #1 articles, that would be pretty cool, since I go there a lot more than viewing individual profiles.
- iFelix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Looks like the #1 feature is causing older stories to hit the front page...
- hemphill81, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Hate to do this because this post is to the actual story but the one on the front now Jay has made some comments in concerning this.
http://digg.com/design/NEW_DIGG_FEATURE_My_Number_1
- hemphill81, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Hate to do this because this post is to the actual story but the one on the front now Jay has made some comments in concerning this.
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well at least the button is 2.0 blue and then green. It doesn't have a reflection :(
- MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This is a neat little feature, although it needs some work.
1. There should be a way to remove your #1 story. Currently, if you are not happy with your pick, then your only option is to pick a new one.
1. A new addition built on top of this could be a top #1 stories page - to see what stories most people consider to be their #1. Sort of like a top 10. There will probably be a much longer persistance associated with stories on this list, as opposed to the short lived "most recently popular" front page. - hotbeefman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Holy crap Kevin Rose responded to you dude!
- Klitzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I like it....Adds a little touch of goodness to Digg....But don't get carried away in features. My teacher once told me to "Keep it simple stupid". Of course, maybe my teacher was just a crazy bitch.
- npala2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think I had that teacher
- short_man, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Takes up too much space...
- SoulCast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like it. It does at a touch of goodness and it also adds to more customization, which is nice in a sea of stories. And it's smart content that's free for users.
- vahnx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yay Kevin thanks for the un-#1 feature, when it comes out...
- speg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Come on guys, all you have to do to remove #1 is undigg the story. I thought you were techies!
I love this feature, it allows me to differentiate between stories I think are good enough to be dugg, and those I want to save / show off.
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