Digg.com is down for maintanence

[DigitalDude]

Though I have been using digg.com for a loong time now only I notice a downtime for maintanence.. just wanted to share this :D dunno if its worthy of a new thread but its chit chat so just posted :p


http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2227/diggdownge8.png (http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/701/diggdown2ga5.png)


click on the image to get the full page image ;)


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[legolas]

can you tell me how you make the most out of it? I always wonder what's the purpose of this digg, stumble upon.. though occasionally, i see google searches land up on many a times digg.

[DigitalDude]

digg is a user powered website where users vote on a story and if it gets lot of votes it lands in the front page (actually theres a lot more to the algorithm) If people dont like it they can bury it. a LOT of people visit digg and if your (assuming you have a blog :D ) story makes it to digg front page most probably your server will crashe due to such a huge traffic coming to your site :D


while stumbleupon is like a lighter version of digg.. you need to download a toolbar and you can specify your interests.. if you like a website that you are currently seeing you can give a thumbs up and a thumbs down if you dont like it.. you can also write review for websites... and if you press the 'stumble' button you will be taken to a random site in your 'interests' that other people have stumbled (liked) :D


unlike digg, stumbleupon sends less but uniform traffic to your site for long term if you have good content that is



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[cool_techie_tvm]

Digg opening fine for me

[legolas]

@digital dude, thks man.

[DigitalDude]

np ;)

now its back :D



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