Top 10 Things Digg Needs (Or Needs to Improve On)
Everyone’s favorite socially driven news site has a lot to offer but could also learn a lot from its users. Here are 10 things I feel the site needs to work on.
1. Photo Section: Many articles on a daily basis that are just pictures with (PIC) in the description. This has been requested for some time now by much of the community.
2. Site Mail: This is a feature they have on Netscape and just gives the site a more social feel.
3. Search: Yes I know Digg has a search option in the top corner, but it is often slow an rarely returns anything related to my search. They could partner with Google on this as I’m sure Google would probably be on board.
4. Crowd Control: They need better systems in place to alert administrators when articles such as those that post private data of others ex: myspace passwords and recent camera theft article.
5. NSFW button: Many of the articles on Digg that are worth of being on the front page are sometimes not safe for work, but why remove them completely when you can just get enough votes like with the inaccurate button to mark an item as NSFW.
6. Personalized Profiles: No I’m not saying make it like MySpace, but just give a small bio section.
7. Submit a New Story Link: Have you ever noticed you have to back out or type in the link to submit a story when you are within your profile. This is just an annoyance to me, but also something very easy to fix.
This is from the home page.
This is from within your user profile.
8. Top User Lists: This doesn’t necessarily have to be a top 100 list (but the top 100 list was nice) just a list of the most active users, and users who are receiving the most Diggs on their stories. This would help users connect with each other.
9. Prizes: Okay this one is a stretch, but it would be great if Digg got some sponsors together to give away prizes to users who are active in certain categories.
10. Site Preview: If you were able to preview a cached version of a site before you actually went to the site this would be great. They could partner with snap for something like this.