I’m still hard at work adding new features!
It’s been awhile since I’ve done an update on the site. The bugs that I have fixed the past week or 2 weren’t very significant. The biggest fix addresses the fact that some users submitted blank images. That SHOULD be fixed, but we shall see. The second fix isn’t really a fix but cosmetic changes. I modified the profile screen and settings to be more obvious and easier to navigate. It now highlights new mail to make it much more obvious. And the last fix, I made the stats tables much prettier than before 
Now my favorite part. What’s new !!
1) Comments are now editable. CPWN user tizerri has been hounding me for two weeks to add this feature. Personally, I didn’t think I could add it in an easy to use and efficient manner. Well, I thought wrong. Each comment is editable for 5 minutes. To do this, simply, press the “edit comment” link and the window slides down revealing the hidden form.
This last addition to the comment system clearly puts Celebritypwn above ALL others. I’d like to see someone show me better!
2) Similar PWNS. Each PWN shows similar stories of interest related to the one you are currently viewing. A subtle change like this can go a long way.
Thats it for now.
This is why Digg sucks
I came across a story on digg today that was located at http://digg.com/offbeat_news/What_the_hell_is_Hillary_looking_at_2 . I thought hmm, thats weird, two stories with the same name cant be a coincidence. Sure enough, its the exact same story but the second time around it was much better because a top digg user submitted it.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/What_the_hell_is_Hillary_looking_at_2
Submitted: 14 hours 14 min ago, made popular 3 hours 44 minutes ago by MrBabyMan
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/What_the_hell_is_Hillary_looking_at
Submitted:1 day 3 hours ago by clogger3030
Okay, so maybe it became popular because he put it in the right category, whereas the other guy didn’t? Nope, afraid not. Both are identical. Though, the story that became popular has a better description.
So lets take a look at who voted for MrBabyMan’s story at the start:
· skored
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gmark13
· 
Pawfoots
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mac26
· 
jstohler
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liza21
· 
Mythos
· 
jekamtor
· 
lienie
· 
mrad01
What do I deduce from that dugg list? I don’t know because I didn’t look that far into it. I can bet you that they are all friends and all digg each others crap. Personally, I can’t fault the Digg team for not picking up the duplicate links. Theres only so much you can do. But I do fault the Digg team for their shitty promotion algorithm. There’s a couple things you can do here to alleviate this problem.
1.) Severely limit the impact of a friend vote for promotion. Perhaps even have it hurt promotion.
But then, even if you do limit it, people will see that the story got 25 votes in 5minutes, so may vote anyway.
2.) The real solution, eliminate friends.
A stranger who votes for your story does it because he/she likes the content. It is a purely unbiased vote that should count significantly more than a friend saying “vote for this!”. We want tech news where everyone has a fair shot to get their stuff dugg. Plain and simple. Best way to ensure that is to eliminate friends on the site.
As most of us already know, Digg is going in the opposite direction. They are developing a way to see stories of similar tastes by other users. In effect, making Digg more of a social site with friends where users can interact. Will this be good or bad for the site? Time will tell.
The Digg site at its current state is broke. So why spend the time on other new features that don’t relate to fixing the site’s core functionality? Where are true conversational threaded comments? Where is comment notification? Where is story promotion notification? Where is “Check if Link is Dead”? These things aren’t hard to code.
Speak up digg users.
