Archive for the 'digg' Category

Is Digg rigged? The numbers…

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I retrieved the last 1100 (Minus one by kevinrose, which skewed all the numbers) stories that hit the front page and found out some info about the users who submitted the stories.
Here’s what I’ve found:

Users
Stories
Fans
Friends

Total
251
1099.0
449035.0
66976.0

Average
-
4.4
1789.0
266.8

Median
-
2.0
991.0
218.0

Some graphs:
This one shows the number of stories each user had on the front page (horizontal axis) and the number of [...]

Digg New Comment System

Friday, May 16th, 2008

For all you greasemonkey script developers, I’ve created a nicely formatted version of diggs new comment javascript.
It’s a replica of what my console looks like, so I apologize for the black background.
I’ll be creating a few scripts that I’ve been thinking of doing sometime in the near future (hopefully).

Digg Top Ten Normalizer

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

I’ve created a new greasemonkey script to ‘normalize’ the top ten sidebar in digg. Now instead of linking to the comments, it links directly to the story. Beside it there is a link to the comments:

Enjoy: Digg Top Ten Normalizer

Digg API Down

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

UPDATE: They’ve fixed the issue

Sorry all, looks like the digg api is broken/down for a bit.
I can’t update the main digg stats page cause I don’t have ssh access at work.
I’ll keep you all updated on any changes as I find out.
In the mean time, I’ve started a thread on it in the Digg [...]

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Graphing Digg Friends

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I’ve been playing around with graphviz a little bit.
It’s an interesting application that uses some algorithms I’ve been reading up on to graph different nodes in either a directed or undirected graph (and a bunch of other features that I haven’t played around with).
I thought that maybe I could use it to plot the relationship [...]

Digg Rating Extender

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Install Script (Must have Greasemonkey installed on Firefox)

I created a greasemonkey script (FIREFOX ONLY, for now) to show the digg ups and digg downs on digg stories. Here’s a picture of what it looks like now:

For those who are interested, details are below. Those who aren’t can’t just go straight to downloading the script.
Some [...]

Design

Friday, August 10th, 2007

I’m looking to redesign the digg comment statistics page. The back-end I generally have no problems with, but when it comes to design, I just have no clue.
If someone is willing to redesign my page, I’ll offer you fame, fortune, and a link on the stats page to you or your email address! (OK, one [...]